VIDEO PREMIERE: Jack Davies & The Bush Chooks – ‘Half Frozen Beer’

The new music video from WA’s Jack Davies & The Bush Chooks, premiering today via The Music, is quirky, fun and charming.

The clip for Half Frozen Beer was directed by Annie Harvey and shot in and around Davies’ house in Fremantle (Walyalup) in the late stages of the state’s COVID lockdown.

“It was a rather lonely time, so I just mulled around my house recording bits ‘n' bobs,” Davies told The Music.

“We couldn’t be in groups, so we couldn’t film with my bandmates directly. Instead, I went and stood out the front of their houses and jammed along with them by their windows, kind of a play on the song and the idea of being together. 

"We wanted it to feel homely. Like a well-packed fridge... full of cheese and pretty colours. My housemate just got a puppy the same week we decided to film the video, and I hadn't seen my bandmates or their respective animals since lockdown. 

“So, between the new pup and seeing my friends for the first time in a while, it was just heaps of fun and we decided to film everything that we thought would be pretty or weird. Recording towards the end of lockdown in WA really gave us the mindset to just relax a little and not take it too seriously. 

“Luckily Annie is the sort of person who can take that energy and produce some of the most beautiful shots I could imagine, I was gobsmacked when I saw the clips for the first time. She's incredible."

Half Frozen Beer is taken from Jack Davies & The Bush Chooks' upcoming EP, Songs For A Long Walk, which is out this Friday.