The members of Happy Fangs get in the Halloween spirit with their new video for “Hiya Kaw Kaw.” The San Francisco trio released the video on Speakeasy.
The video was directed by James Mitchell shooting in and around San Francisco including a vacant factory that had been used to build battleships during World War II. The video is a twist on Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds”, where the video alternates between shots of the band hurling through an abandoned warehouse and their encounters with a family of large human-bird creatures. By the end of the video the band, singer Rebecca Bortman, guitarist Michael Cobra, and drummer Jess Gowrie are bombarded by the birds while they play.
The band took the lead in helping with the special effects. “I designed the heads and the band spent a very late night together sewing the custom bird masks together,” Cobra says. “Jess had never sewn anything before so she had to learn on the job.” In regards to the space they go to work with, Gowrie says, “To get up to the amazing set require hauling all of our gear and film equipment up five flights of stairs, It was worth it, though, as we had a gigantic warehouse all to ourselves.”
“Hiya Kaw Kaw” was first seen on the bands self-titled EP in 2013, and resurfaced on the trio’s debut album Capricorn, which came out in January.
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