New music video out now. The Tide are Ready To Go...
Again we teamed up with director Miha Knific, Aljoša Korenčan as director of photography, and the rest of production team from Start Film Production. Filming lasted only one day on four different locations with 30+ extras. The result is stunning black&white masterpiece, which had it's debut airing on 14th November on MTV.
For better understanding of the story developing in the music video Ready To Go, we offer you a brief interview with the 'maker' - director Miho Knific:
What is the story of the video about? If we were to judge by the title, the song would probably talk about the path to home. Video doesn't do that, but shows the path to a place, where all you want to do is go home. A place, where your rev's go into red, you feel lost and you realize the waste of your potential. The story is placed in a system where people have to do jobs of the everyday objects... all these jobs feel meaningless, people don't appreciate the things and people anymore, in fact we feel as we are being tossed around or play a role of an ashtray. Our world is changing into a feeling less world, in which we have to live. That is a world in which we have to stay quiet and must vanish in gray meritocracy. Is this system a result of society crisis? It is the system in which we actually live - i.e. a world of the exploiters and the exploited. It is a world directly shown through a different perspective. The system in which we actually live today is full of absurd power struggles and domination. That de-humanized a person, stole our taught and actions and threw us in uniformed capitalistic order - and all that under the pretention of freedom, Video is some sort of reflection to the current state of mind of the society. Even though it is intimae it tells a private story of one person and through that shows the parallel world. It is a 'homage' to the artist Erwin Wurm and screenwriter and producer Patricia Plaza. What is the relation between picture and sound in this video? Picture shows the reason, why it is time to go home. The lyrics reveal different, more deep side - why there is no hope, where there is no love. People are transformed into machines which suffer.
How did the band members perform on the shooting since they are not professional actors? They had to play a role which doesn't exist in reality - that means they imitated something which doesn't exist, therefore they couldn't act wrong. The shooting itself was in a strictly documentary style, with hand camera, which additionally helped understand the world we were showing.
On 15th November we will launch new single and video READY TO GO.
The video premiere will take place the day before, on November 14th at 20.00 CET on MTV. The usual production team lineup (Start film production, director Miha Knific, director of photography Aljoša Korenčan) does not bring out the message that came from all of us who have been involved in the production of the video.
And the message from us to you is : it will probably be our best video so far, which is saying something as most of our video clips have been very positively recieved so far. More than thirty extras, black&white design, the first story-carrying video for The Tide, yet still supporting the music... in short, from the initial idea till the final mix - excellent!
Please watch and listen MTV @ 20.00 CET on November 14th!
One of the award-winning photos from this year’s Trnfest was also a photo shot by Mankica Kranjec. She commented about the photo and her inspiration: “When I listen to their music, it always takes my thoughts somewhere far away… and when I hear them perform live, I get a feeling that they are playing for themselves, but at the same time also for each and every listener at the show.”
During the busy and successful August, we captured many pictures which you can see at our "Photo" section. You are also invited to check newly added "After parties" section - that's where you can see what The Tide are usually doing off-stage.
In one week you can find us in Serbia's capital Belgrade, where we will be shooting for MTV Express. We have made acoustic arrangements for few of our songs, this time it will truly be WITHOUT any electricity!
The show will be premiered at MTV this autumn. Apart from shooting the show, The Tide plans to use the trip to further promote our record Kings of the hill around ex-Yu. The goal of course is to come back to Belgrade and other countries with our gear and to play as much shows as possible.
THE TIDE presents LETTERS FROM THE OTHER SIDE... ... new single from far beyond...
...and this is how we used to play like sudden rain on a sunny day . And this is how you faded away on so called wings of wellness...
The Tide is releasing their 3rd single named Letters from the other side from their current album Kings of the hill. After Snow! and Decline now we feel it is time for messages from the other worlds. If they exist, messages from those places must also exist, unless they are only in our minds. "Virtual love or true loss" are the guidelines that capture this song. Check our radio player.
Today we uploaded new photos from March tour. Check out our Photo subpage. Thanks everyone for your support and hope we see you again on stage. We had really good time on stage, back stage and in our van.
The Tide are returning to perform some gigs in March, presenting their Kings of the hill album.
Starting on March 5th in Kranjska Gora (FIS Ski World Cup), The Tide wil be playing live at 17.00p.m. For those of you who can't make it to Kranjska Gora, The Tide's FIS World cup show will be broadcasted LIVE on Slovenia's national radio VAL 202 (98.9Mhz).
They also plan a gig in Celje March 25th in Metropol.
The Tide's new album builds upon their musical excellence and stylistic charm. It is an album of both exceptional fluidity and validity, one that will guide you from the unveiling of its many sophisticated and minimalistic musical tricks to the discovery of many details that, upon your first listening, will tend to elude you. Rockline
They have more than successfully navigated the hurdles of making their second album, which can only mean less inhibition for their future creativity. Rockonnet
Unlike most of our country's musical products, their style goes far beyond our nation's borders. It is exceptionally modern, most passionate, driven and obviously filled with unique musical solutions. Eleven tracks offer a great deal of vareity, from the firmer guitar lines and faster tempo to the more tranquil, ballad-like melodies that draw their inspiration from folksongs. Most diverse. Playboy
Certain album tracks take cues from the british alternative rock scene and the Indie genre, as well as having a melancholic vibe that we Slovenians often like to claim for our own. Zarolaj.si
But basically most of the new songs reaffirm The Tide's reputation as a 'slow' band, one that catches the waves of melancholy with both theatrically dramatic vocals and lyrics as well as with atmospheric keyboards and subtle instrumental lines. Kings of the Hill contains a premeditated mix of emotionally calm rock, already well-established with the band's debut album, along with newer and edgier tones found on some of its tracks, thus expanding The Tide's musical repetoire towards a very likable direction. Magazine Glasna
The Tide will perform this Sunday, Jaruary 9th on national Slovenian television at the NLP show LIVE!!!
Their performance will be on around 6.00 pm and the band decided to keep the name of their live song a secret. So please tune in to RTVSLO1 on Sunday to listen & watch THE TIDE LIVE!
The Tide proudly announces King of the year 2010 winners!! You voted for the best three designs and you really did a good job making all those album covers! At the end the winners who will recieve those awards are:
FIRST PRIZE - Designer: NiNa 1X King of the the year 2010: One-year ticket to all The Tide concerts in 2011 1X Kings of the hill album with your unique design 1X set of The Tide badges
The Tide have started a competition for the best designed cover of their new album Kings of the hill, which you can design on their website www.thetide.si .
Competition starts today and ends on 30th December at 12.00 a.m. on www.thetide.si
You will be judged by the whole country of Slovenia or maybe even the whole world. Judging is being done on our website www.thetide.si and the judges are all the visitors. It's possible for anyone to be a judge, from your friends, schoolmates, aunts, uncles, dogs, cats... well, scratch the last two... :) You vote by clicking the heart on your favourite cover, "Like" button. You can only vote once for each cover. Share your art design cover on Facebook and vote for it! Winners will be informed via email and published on our web site.
Who can become King of the year 2010 King of the the tide 2010 becomes the designer, who collects most "likes" by 30th December till 12.00 a.m. You can enter the competition FOR FREE and design as many covers as you wish.
How can I participate and become King of the year 2010 It's simple. You visit www.thetide.si and click on the "Create yourself unique album cover". Wait until the elements get loaded. Then click on your preferred background and drag the elements with the mouse on the cover. You can also change size, rotation of the elements etc... When you decide that your cover is finished, click "Done", then enter your name and valid e-mail adress so we can contact you in case you are the winner. Then click "Done" again to publish your cover on The Tide website. FIRST PRIZE 1X King of the the 2011: One-year ticket to all The Tide concerts in 2011 1X Kings of the hill album with your unique design 1X set of The Tide badges SECOND PRIZE 1X Kings of the hill album with your unique design 1X The Tide T-shirt 1X set of The Tide badges THIRD PRIZE 1X The Tide T-shirt 1X The Tide Love&Trust album
Notices: - first prize - 1-year ticket to all The Tide shows does not include transport to the show's location. The winner must provide a transport himself. The ticket is valid for The Tide shows in Slovenia only. The ticket cannot be transferred to other person.
- we will inform the winners via e-mail, which you submitted at the publishing of your cover. In case your e-mail is not valid or incorrect we will give the reward to the next person in line with the highest "like" score.
- in case the winners do not answer the e-mail in 14 daysfrom the 30th December, we will give the reward to the next person in line with the highest "like" score.
For more informations you can write us: band@thetide.si
The Tide have started a competition for the best designed cover of their new album Kings of the hill, which you can design on their website www.thetide.si .
The band set up new design elements and backgrounds suitable for this time of year. DESIGN YOUR UNIQUE ALBUM COVER AND WIN!!!
Apart from distributing bigger and smaller awards The Tide will also give the winner KING OF THE TIDE 2011 / 1 free ticket for every The Tide show in the next year!!! Competition starts today and ends on 30th December at 12.00am on www.thetide.si
You will be judged by the whole country of Slovenia or maybe even the whole world Judging is being done on our website www.thetide.si and the judges are all the visitors. It's possible for anyone to be a judge, from your friends, schoolmates, aunts, uncles, dogs, cats... well, scratch the last two... :) You vote by clicking the heart on your favourite cover, "Like" button. You can only vote once for each cover. Share your art design cover on Facebook and vote for it! FOR MORE DETAILS, PRIZES, CONTEST REGULATIONS CLICK HERE!
HELP FOR PEOPLE OF DARFUR, VICTIMS OF THE GENOCIDE FOR OIL AND WATER
CHARITY CONCERT, DECEMBER 10th at 20.00 , Izbruhov kulturni bazen, Kranj
THE QUIET GENOCIDE IN DARFUR CONTINUES...
H.O.P.E Last years in Darfur there were 450.000 kileed, over 400.000 exiled, 2.5 million homeless people, mass rapes, tortures of the civilians - including children, famine... Suleiman Jammus and Tomo Križnar will talk about the situation in Sudan, the heart
BY PARTICIPATING WE HELP: buying mobile drilling equipment necessary to locate new water sources and water supplying of the civilians. The price for such an equipment is 90.000,00 Euros. Some of the money has been raised all over the world via various actions, now you can add your share as well.
