EXCLUSIVE: Brand new Hot Sprockets video

Always inventive with their videos, the latest effort from The Hot Sprockets is no different.

Filmed for their next single 'Shake Me Off' – which features on forthcoming second album Brother Nature – it finds the quintet donning their helmets for some motorcycle mayhem. Funny and inventive, it fits the good times groove of the tune perfectly. Check it to below.

Of 'Shake Me Off' (on sale Friday May 23) itself, the band say:

"The song materialised pretty quick for us, we came up with it just two weeks before recording. The way the mandolin hook and guitar play off each other was reminiscent of Eagles of Death Metal, and its fast-paced, in your face, eccentric nature evoked a sense of Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.  We’re admirers of both those bands so we just kind of went along with that theme; upbeat, tongue in cheek, all out, rock and roll. We just had a laugh with it basically, kept it light-hearted and based the lyrical motif around infatuation. A lot of the vocals and melodies were improvised in the studio, which really pumped up the energy and attitude of the song."

On the promo:

"The video was shot by our good friends Luke Sweetman and Esme Pum McNamee. This is the fourth video Luke has shot for us, and our second with the production company Little Beast, which he co-founded. As usual with our videos we had to pull in a lot of favours from our close friends; all the extras, the locations, the motor bikes (the Sprocket bike was my niece Zoe’s), the helmets, the stuntmen, and Bob at Extreme Structures who built the ramps, one with a flaming phallus!!! The video is every bit as eccentric as the song, and it could not have happened without the help of everyone involved. Three days of shooting squeezed into two action-packed minutes. The basic plot; the Sprockets are a band of brothers, a stunt-team, who get challenged to a stunt off."

The Hot Sprockets launch Brother Nature with a show in Dublin's Button Factory on June 7