Hum

 I totally forgot that 'You Can't Hum Your Way Out of This One' was originally inspired by David Cameron's resignation speech from the UK Government after the Brexit results. As he walks into 10 Downing Street, he hums a little tune.... very clearly .... 

You Can't Hum Your Way Out of This One Video

 This song came about after some home truth serum activity and Jeron messing around with his drum machine… We knew that it needed a guest vocalist and, ‘though this is the first time that we’ve worked with Jimmy, he has really meshed well with the band and done a superb job. Huge thanks to the puppet theatre for the loan of Jimmy.

It took me a while to bond with Jimmy, I had to mend his trousers and then we just had to get on with getting on. I remember Sal saying how she had to take up Nick Cave's trousers for a video shoot and that had a similar affect. Similar types of guy I guess, haha.

A lot of practicing with lip sync and eye position, you can only move his eyes by moving his head. The mouth movement is a strange metal hook on a lever in Jimmy's back. The body is made of paper mache the head is plaster I think. He'd had a little accident with his face before we met. 

As you can hear, he's noisy, but I think he can impersonate my voice really well.  When Mark came up with the idea of a ventriloquist dummy for this video, I said, what for.... knowing that I found them horribly creepy, but it was great fun and working with puppets, you learn stuff about yourself, sounds like a cliche, I know, but give it a go and then you'll see.