Boston’s Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling have released their first music video for the song Episode 1 – Arrival. The band, which is two-thirds of the way through a project to write and record a song for each of the 17 episodes of the cult 1960’s tv show, The Prisoner, released their second EP, Questions Are a Burden to Others, earlier this week.
The music video for Episode 1 – Arrival is a shot-for-shot recreation of the opening sequence of The Prisoner. The project took 11 days of shooting and nearly 2 years of planning to create. It was shot in Boston and New England with an eye to replicate as nearly as they could the London/Wales/1960s landscape of the original. Lead singer/drummer Sophia Cacciola took on the role of Number 6 (played originally by Patrick McGoohan) – see the classic Lotus 7 replica racing around downtown Boston as the story of the unnamed protagonist unfolds as she angrily resigns from her intelligence position only to find that she can’t get away quickly enough to avoid being gassed and chased by a giant white ball.
The song is available on their website for free download.
Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling’s next show is Thursday, June 23 at Church w/ Doomstar!, White Fence, The Strange Boys.
–Chrissy Prisco