{"id":947,"date":"2011-07-27T22:26:29","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T22:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/?p=947"},"modified":"2022-09-13T05:05:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T05:05:26","slug":"sleepyhands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/sleepyhands\/","title":{"rendered":"SLEEPYHANDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately our photographer friend Ed has been hooking us up with some terrific bands &#8211; first Jonathan Boulet, then <a href=\"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/30\/parades\/\">Parades<\/a>, and now Sleepyhands &#8211; some of whose members you might recognise from the <a href=\"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/19\/jonathan-boulet\/\">Jonathan Boulet garage video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sleepyhands wanted to make a video out near where they live, in Sydney&#8217;s northwest suburbs.  They wrote to us to suggest a dam in Northmead, which they said looked a lot cooler than it sounded.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/26989309?h=d04ca0e2a4&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"Sleepyhands:  Cross Your Fingers\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><br \/>\nAnd they were right &#8211; frequented by hikers, surrounded by an iconically Australian forest, covered with graffiti, the dam was the perfect setting for Sleepyhands&#8217; dreamy melodies and bittersweet, surprising harmonies.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/26981000?h=518f65866e&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"Sleepyhands:  The Autumn March\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><br \/>\nThe band members are avid skateboards &#8211; one member&#8217;s broken arm was caused by skateboarding, and now she uses the cast as a percussion instrument &#8211; adding to the quirky collection of things the band hit to make their beautiful sounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately our photographer friend Ed has been hooking us up with some terrific bands &#8211; first Jonathan Boulet, then Parades, and now Sleepyhands &#8211; some of whose members you might recognise from the Jonathan Boulet garage video. Sleepyhands wanted to make a video out near where they live, in Sydney&#8217;s northwest suburbs. They wrote to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016,"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions\/1016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}