Fife’s favourite twins The Proclaimers have released the video for their latest soon-to-be-released anthemic track Streets of Edinburgh.
The song is from the new album Angry Cyclist, released last week.
The accompanying video was written and directed by Rianne White who, as well as directing the band’s recent Angry Cyclist video, is renowned for her work with the likes of Young Fathers (‘Lord’ video).
It acts as a sequel to the Angry Cyclist video, offering a “new visual perspective of humanity.”
Contrasting from the high intensity movement and environment, Rianne wanted to focus on the freedom of unplugging and looking up and outward.
It includes a subtle continuity of established faces found in Angry Cyclist within the Streets of Edinburgh.
Conceptually the video explores experiencing the space and rhythm laced around the seven hills that Edinburgh sits on.
Working with each hill as a centre point, the video navigates neighbourhoods influenced by reflection and distinctive architecture. In short it’s a love letter to Edinburgh.
In an interview with The Courier published in last week’s Weekend magazine, Craig Reid – one half of The Proclaimers, said he didn’t want it to be sentimental.
He said: “Folk have been asking about that song – were you waiting to write it?
“It wasn’t like that at all. Sometimes when you get a completed tune it takes weeks and weeks and weeks to get the lyrics. This time I got the tune, then the lyrics just kind of fell out.
“It didn’t take very long. I hadn’t been thinking about the city or anything like that. I just kind of wrote about my feelings towards it and experiences.”
The Proclaimers, who grew up in Auchtermuchty, are back out live through to December this year.
As they head for a sell-out 47 shows in the UK, in Scotland they sold out 30,000 tickets in 20 minutes of going on sale. September sees The Proclaimers on a coast-to-coast 13-date tour of Canada.
Angry Cyclist is out now and available on CD, LP, digital download and streaming services.
