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Vid O' The Week: Babe Rainbow's Secret Enchanted Broccoli Forest

What remains of our knowledge of the western world’s most celebrated decade is, I would assume, a pretty biased picture, skewed towards the carefree and the senseless rather than the Vietnam draft and the constant fear of global thermonuclear exchange.

The sixties’ legacy of psychoactive chemicals, free love, cheap petrol and quirky science fiction have lived on in our pop history psyche in the form of flat vinyl discs, decaying super 8 film and heavily embellished stories from your uncle who now owns a farm outside Byron Bay.

We know you clicked through because the title said Babe Rainbow’s Secret Enchanted Broccoli Forest. Luckily, you’re in for a pretty amazing Vid O’ The Week.

As though dug out of the musty back shed of that very farm comes the latest video from Rainbow Bay’s own acid casualties The Babe Rainbow. Filmed on a solid gold 24 carat film recorder (Roger Moore Bond styles), the clip for Secret Enchanted Broccoli Forest paints the band chilling out and getting up to some serious flower child bullshit before literally painting the band against a pastel cartoonscape, which stylistically lands somewhere between a Monty Python short and Yellow Submarine.

The clip expertly cuts a divide between the vintage visuals of  Sam Kristofski‘s direction and editing and the brilliant animation of Dr. D. Foothead, who between them have previously worked with The Ruby Suns, Opossom, The Upbeats, The Jezabels, The Datsuns and Jinja Safari. Oh, and of course the music behind the visuals is pretty damn amazing as well. But you already knew that, didn’t you?

The Babe Rainbow will be embarking on an east coast tour in July to support Secret Enchanted Broccoli Foreststopping off at the dates listed below. Even if you don’t like psych music, it’ll be worth heading down to a Babe Rainbow show just to see the most glorious blonde beard in existence – although if you don’t like psych music then you probably don’t like beards – and you probably stopped reading this article when you read Secret Enchanted Broccoli Forest.

TOUR DATES

SATURDAY JUNE 21
The Workers Club, Melbourne VIC
W/ The Dandelion + The Good Morrows

WEDNESDAY JUNE 25 – FREE
Beach Road, Bondi, NSW
W/ North East Party House

THURSDAY JUNE 26
Brighton Up Bar, Sydney, NSW
W/ The Grease Arrestor + The Dandelion

FRIDAY JUNE 27
Black Bear Lodge, Brisbane, QLD
W/ The Furrs + Jordan Rochfort

SATURDAY JUNE 28
Miami Shark Bar, Gold Coast, QLD
W/ The Furrs + The Family Dog

All shows $10 on the door unless stated otherwise.

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