Video: Public Access T.V., ‘MetroTech’

Kevin Bronson on November 28th, 2017

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Public Access T.V. (Photo by Jonah Freud)

Garage-power quartet Public Access T.V. are kind of New York City’s skinny-tie answer to FIDLAR, makers of quick-hitting, hook-heavy power-pop laced with attitude and wit. The fall 2016 release of their debut album “Never Enough” followed a two-year period during which they were anointed next-big-thing by NME, toured extensively overseas to build the hype further and prevailed over drama internal and external — including losing their Manhattan apartment and its contents in a gas explosion while they were on tour in the spring of 2015. The band — frontman John Eatherly (ex-Be Your Own Pet) along with Xan Aird, Max Peebles and Pete Star — return in February with their second album “Street Safari,” made with Patrick Wimberly of Chairlift.

The footloose first single is “MetroTech,” and director Morian Thomas’ video features TV and film actor Kevin Corrigan, whom PATV bassist Peebles had met “while day-drinking at some dive bar,” the band says. “Kevin was there by himself as well and eventually they started talking and spent the rest of the day hanging at this bar. Max then ‘night-walked’ home and the next day when he told John the story, the video idea and everything was created.”

Enjoy Corrigan’s moves. We’ve gotten home that way too.

||| Watch: The video for “MetroTech”