THE FIRST Studio66 Music Video shoot of the year took place in an underground club in the city of Bangkok, 3rd January, 2022.
The British Horrorcore artist Trashzilla had thoroughly scouted the area and was given the all clear to use the Airplane Graveyard on December 26th, 2021. J.D Strange met the talent before assembling a team of two camera operators, director, and production assistant.
Upon arrival at the graveyard disaster struck.
The family who squat at the airplane graveyard and double as security had locked the gates.
They weren't letting anybody in.
Recap. First music video of the year and first choice location had fallen away from the team. The family who run the bizarre tourist attraction decided to lock up the gates and weren't opening up for any sum of money. Other tourists gathered outside with backpacks, drinking bottles of water, kicking the gravel, and pleading with the homeless to enter the graveyard.
But to no avail.
Normally the pipers open the gates from dawn to dusk for 200BT per person.
But not this time.
New location required. Crew assembled clock ticking the team had to relocate fast following consideration of several alternative locations across the city (train yard, scrap yard, china town cul-de-sac, baby doll factory,) the team decided on the dark cavernous blacks and reds of an inner city fetish club (which can't be named before permission to do so has been granted - these people have whips and know how to use them.) The title and the vibe of the track "You Can't F*** With Me" perfectly fitted the location. We arrived at the location and knocked three times on a door that resembled the entrance to a modest Toulousaine chateau.
A hatch to the upper portion of the dungeon door opened to reveal a sympathetic off-duty flogger cleaning up before the first wave of submissive lust puppets washed in.
So let's recap. The team were now in downtown Bangkok, outside a fetish S&M club waiting for the manager to arrive to let them in to shoot.
Not wishing to be spied Jonesing outside a tape and gag joint Strange instructed the team to break for a spinach bagel at Au Bon Pain with a view to returning before nightfall. Eventually inside the dungeon the team secured the downstairs area and for a small extra fee they were permitted to shoot upstairs also.
The team had cages, racks, candles, whips, gags, a hospital bed, and a spinning wheel of fortune to use as props and set decoration.
The shoot was a dream - the lights and mood fantastic.
The staff at the club were extremely accommodating.
The music video will be out next month, but in the meantime here's Trashzilla's latest.
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