Synopsis
The Experimental Tropic Blues Band's "Those Dicks" is a short, deliberately unruly music video built around the Belgian trio's abrasive rock'n'roll persona. Rather than following a conventional story, it presents the band and its performers in a fast, surreal, confrontational setting that matches the song's crude humor and aggressive energy. The result is a compact performance piece with a deliberately excessive tone, designed to feel chaotic, provocative, and unlike a standard promotional clip.
Factoids & Trivia
- The video was released in 2009 and runs for approximately three minutes.
- "Those Dicks" appears on the band's second album, "Captain Boogie," released in February 2009. The album version of the song runs for 2 minutes and 19 seconds.
- A Belgian premiere was held at Brussels' Maison du Peuple in Saint-Gilles on June 10, 2009, followed by a rock'n'roll party.
- The clip was made through the Belgian production collective La Film Fabrique, which also worked on several other music videos connected to the Liège alternative-music scene.
- The video circulated online through Vimeo in June 2009. Contemporary Belgian music coverage presented it as an especially unhinged and unconventional clip.
- The production is also associated with editor Daniel Bruylandt, who later became known for sound-editing work on Belgian genre films.
- "Those Dicks" was later included among the music videos accompanying French distribution of "Captain Boogie."