Townies

Andy Maize (Skydiggers) and Michael Timmins (Cowboy Junkies), Townies - an audioplay about childhood, and memory, and pandemics, and guilt, and responsibility; born out of bad hockey, COVID, Black Lives Matter and age.

Scope

Born of the pandemic, Townies was a project that Andy and Michael collaborated on. They needed videos for two of their songs to release online - What the Fuck’s Going On and Townies.

What the Fuck’s Going On: The song is about the early days of the pandemic and the confusion surrounding everything and everyone at the time. I was given a video of andy dancing in a wig and directed to use “all the effects”. So we decided to focus the viewer on a broken TV set with the video of Andy dancing to highlight those early days of the pandemic of being glued to the TV screen and being unsure of what you were watching.

Townies: This song was about Andy and Michael growing up in Montreal during the 70’s. The goal was to create a Ken Burns style video using family photos and videos to tell the songs story.

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