TRICKY LITTLE PILE-UP

Dinosaur Pile-Up have released a video for their Amazon Original cover of Run DMC’s ‘It’s Tricky’. The video finds the band caught in the middle of an alien invasion as UFOs whiz through the sky and the effects of the infectious song quickly take hold on the world.

Regarding the video frontman Matt Bigland says, “We basically wanted a chance to make our own Beastie Boys/Busta Rhymes esque video, but for a Run DMC song. So when Amazon Music kindly agreed to put a video into production we were like OK LET’S GOOOO!!

“‘It’s Tricky’ is such a fun song, so we wanted to make sure the video wasn’t taking itself too seriously and that the end result would be a party. We also wanted to include us getting abducted by aliens (because why not), us dressed up AS THE ACTUAL ALIENS ABDUCTING OURSELVES because I’m into that ‘same person playing both roles’ thing, a scene that kind of reminded us of Foo Fighter’s Monkey Wrench video (because it’s cool as hell) and as much 90’s sci fi special effects as we were allowed to include because we were brought up on that sh*t.

“I put this to director Ralph Fuller (GrainFreeze) and basically said ‘hey do you wanna have a shit load of fun making a video about aliens’ and he was instantly sold. However – when we turned up to shoot on the day, and we found ourselves stood in a legit movie studio with seemingly countless people running around with 40foot green screens and back drops of the Grand Canyon and sh*t.

“I realised that it had all gotten horrendously out of hand, and that our little idea of “let’s make a fun/stupid Beastie Boys music video about us getting abducted by aliens” had turned into a legit Busta Rhymes music video that was actually gonna look really really sick. I then instinctively ate a chimichanga that was way too hot for me, donned a news anchor suit with the actual universe printed on it, and went on to deliver a performance many critics are describing as ‘kind of ok in a Ted Danson kind of way’. All in all, it was a huge success.”

Dinosaur Pile-Up released their most recent critically acclaimed new album Celebrity Mansions via Parlophone in 2019. The album’s release saw Dinosaur Pile-Up lay claim as one of the UK’s most exciting rock bands and take huge strides forwards on both sides of the Atlantic. Their singles became radio smash hits with ‘Back Foot’ picking up regular spins from Radio 1 and reaching number four on the US rock radio chart. The album was touted in Best Of The Year lists across the board.

The band have announced rescheduled live dates, which include their largest headline show yet to take place at London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town on February 26^th 2021, with a warm up show at The Wardrobe, Leeds on February 20^th. Dinosaur Pile-Up will be completing a full UK tour with Enter Shikari throughout May and June 2021, which finishes with a London show at Alexandra Palace on June 12^th. The band are also set to perform at festivals including Mad Cool and Burn It Down next summer. All tickets are available via http://www.dinosaurpileup.com/

Amazon Music listeners can find Dinosaur Pile-Up’s Cover ‘It’s Tricky’ by simply asking, “Alexa play the Amazon Original by Dinosaur Pile-Up” in the Amazon Music app for iOS and Android and on Alexa-enabled devices. In addition to the new track, Amazon Music listeners can access hundreds of Amazon Originals featuring both emerging and established artists across numerous genres, available to stream and purchase only on Amazon Music.

DINOSAUR PILE-UP 2021 TOUR DATES
FEBRUARY HEADLINE SHOW
20^th – Leeds, The Wardrobe
26^th – London, O2 Forum Kentish Town

MAY (W) ENTER SHIKARI
10^th – Middlesbrough, Town Hall
12^th – Birmingham, O2 Academy
13^th – Nottingham, Rock City
14^th – Nottingham, Rock City
15^th – Edinburgh, Usher Hall

JUNE (W) ENTER SHIKARI
9^th – Manchester, O2 Victoria Warehouse
10^th – Southampton, O2 Guildhall
11^th – Cardiff, Cardiff University Great Hall
12^th – London, Alexandra Palace

JULY
10^th – Mad Cool Festival, Madrid

SEPTEMBER
11^th – Burn It Down Festival, Torquay