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British synthpop band Erasure released a video today featuring lead singer Andy Bell in front of the telescopes of ESO’s Paranal Observatory, located high in the mountains of Chile’s Atacama Desert. The new single “Fill Us With Fire” honors ESO’s 50th anniversary this year. Watch the full video below!
The video features the Very Large Telescope as well as some of ESO’s stunning images of the night sky. This is the third single to be released from their 2011 album Tomorrow’s World.
According to ESO’s press announcement:
Andy spent one day at Paranal in February 2012, during which time footage was shot of him singing Erasure’s latest single. The footage was edited with some of ESO’s best astronomical images. Andy, thrilled with the result, decided to dedicate it to ESO’s 50th Anniversary and make it the exclusive video for the single.
Standing on a 20-foot-high platform in front of the VLT, Andy didn’t have a lot of room to move around during the shooting of the video. Say what you will about the choreography, I think it’s awesome to see the observatory and some of its amazing images featured in a new music video!
Personally, I would have wanted to be standing on top of one of the telescope domes but I’m not sure if that’s allowed.
Credit: Erasure/ESO (S. Lowery)
Directed by: Simon Lowery
Editing: Simon Lowery, Lars Lindberg Christensen & Patrick Geeraert
Music: Erasure/Andy Bell
Footage and photos: ESO, Guillaume Blanchard & Simon Lowery
I can just picture all the astronomers in Paranal Residencia shaking their bööty to this… 😉
Can’t say that I care much for the song, but it is a good video, and a great sentiment by the band to the ESO, and the VLT.