Indecent proposals, coffee, croissants and free hugs in new Lisa Maxwell video
Released on = March 6, 2007, 4:51 am
Press Release Author = Essential Music Australia
Industry = Entertainment
Press Release Summary = On a sunny day like so many experienced in North East Victoria, Australia, the townsfolk of Benalla were introduced to a coffee-guzzling, croissant-munching, hug-giving (�la Juan Mann), shoplifting creature by the name of Anna, proudly displaying a "Will Drop Pants 4 Plane Ticket" sign in a cheeky attempt to find her way back to the tr�s chic south of France.
Press Release Body = On a sunny day like so many experienced in North East Victoria, Australia, the townsfolk of Benalla were introduced to a coffee-guzzling, croissant-munching, hug-giving (�la Juan Mann), shoplifting creature by the name of Anna, proudly displaying a "Will Drop Pants 4 Plane Ticket" sign in a cheeky attempt to find her way back to the tr�s chic south of France.
So... who is Anna? Why does she do that with those underpants? Could this bizarre creature possibly be a real person?
"Oh, she's real, alright," says rock songwriter/musician turned music video director, Lisa Maxwell, with a little more than a hint of mystery. As it happens, Anna is the latest single from Lisa Maxwell's debut album, Select Vacancy, the clip also marking her directing debut. Up-and-coming Benalla teen rocker Jasmine Billingsley stars in the lead role.
The muse for the track and peculiar clip was "...someone once who visited my hometown Benalla for a few months and became very unpopular with the locals," Lisa carefully revealed in an interview with music website Access All Areas in 2005, and insists that a frightening degree of truth lies behind "Anna's" adventures captured in the music video:
"Then again, fact is stranger than fiction!"
Anna has so far received a big response on Lisa's official website and networking websites MySpace and YouTube, where it is currently online for viewing. The clip is released to Australian television this week.
Candid behind-the-scenes footage and outtakes from the video shoot will be released later this year as part of Lisa's new iTunes video podcast, which is being produced in conjunction with Melbourne-based podcasters Cracked Media, who are behind Australia's first all-girl indie music podcast, the ever-popular The Bleeding Edge.
Select Vacancy (featuring the track Anna) is out now through Essential Music Australia/Green Media/MGM Distribution and is available on Apple iTunes and all good music retailers.