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The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart by Annie Powers
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart will tour the UK in November.
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart have premiered a brand new video for Kurt Cobain’s Cardigan after the release of their Perfect Right Now compilation earlier this year.
It contains footage from Shannon McMahon and film from a 2008 gig in Nottingham, all directed by Art Boonparn.
“We first met Shannon and James when we did a session at their college radio station WNYU,” Kip Berman has remembered.
“Afterwards, Shannon interviewed us for her zine, and we bonded over a shared love of the great new indiepop bands like Sharp Pins, Lightheaded, and Good Flying Birds (she actually turned us on to GFB).”
In the interview, she asked about our song Kurt Cobain’s Cardigan, and I talked about how even before we wrote the song, that phrase was really a mantra to us, as we probably would have never gotten into the things we love if it wasn’t for Kurt telling all his 13 year old fans to ‘go check out The Vaselines, Beat Happening, and Teenage Fanclub’ – bands that have a pretty different sound to Nirvana, but shared a similar spirit.
“So later, when we saw the super 8 footage she made with James, it felt really perfect for that song’s video.”
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