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Artist Profile – Circa Waves

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Circa Waves  are an indie rock band formed in Liverpool in 2013. The band consists of frontman Kieran Shudall (vocals, guitar), Sam Rourke (bass), Colin Jones (drums) and Joe Falconer (guitarist). In 2014 Circa Waves supported The 1975 on tour around the UK . Circa Waves performed at various festivals during the summer of 2014, including Hurricane and Southside Festivals in Germany, Latitude Festival, T-in the Park, Glastonbury Festival, and Splendour in the Grass (Australia). They also performed at Arenal Sound (Spain), Summersonic in Japan, and at Reading and Leeds Festival at the end of August 2014. The band also supported The Libertines in September 2014. In 2015 they performed at a number of festivals, including Glastonbury, Reading & Leeds and Boardmasters . And in Circa Waves tour of the UK this year, they were supported by artists such as The Magic Gang and Inheaven. They are also currently support Two Door Cinema Club on an American tour.  These band all play

Music Video Analysis – Young Chasers by Circa Waves

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The music video starts with a low angle shot of a teenage female. This straight away establishes that she is the main character within the video and perhaps she is what the lyrics are about. She looks quite annoyed and even angry, this suggest she is not a particularly nice person and perhaps she follows an age stereotype that teenagers are more grumpy, like in “Kev and Perry”. This is also intensified by the camera zooming in on her face as well as a sound intensifying. The scene then cuts to a shot of the girl running down a street just as the first guitar starts up which shows there is a link between the video and the music. Then after a change in tone of the guitar, it cuts to the band playing and switches back with the same change in tone. This continues throughout the video, the video cuts in time with the music. In the first scene of the band we see in the video we see all of the band as well as them all nodding their heads together in sync and with the music and this u