Re-emerging from a hiatus earlier this year with the catchy single ‘Are We Flirting’, Abbe May’s followup ‘Doomsday Clock’ unveils yet another side to her personality, as she releases the brand new. social-savvy music video for ‘Doomsday Clock’ just days before tour.

Directed by Aaron McCann, the brand new video for ‘Doomsday Clock’ puts a completely new and captivating ‘social’ spin on the usually bland medium of lyrics videos, creatively weaving images, video, text and music together across multiple platforms. Beautifully shot and insanely creative, the video for ‘Doomsday Clock’ perfectly contrasts to lyrical content of the new single.

“My lifeline really was the great love I feel for my infant niece and nephews. It really made me see beyond myself, that I needed to do something more meaningful than pursue this whole sex, drugs and rock and roll thing. I want them to have a good future here on earth. I want to try at least to help guide them through a better world than the one I currently see being willfully destroyed through greed, manipulation and stupidity. I am just a singer but I may as well use my voice for good if it can in any way make the world better for them.”

On one level, ‘Doomsday Clock’ is about what May sees as the great fallacy of trickle-down economics and the environmental and social destruction it has caused. On another level, it is about the internal and external struggles of seemingly inexplicable existence and how they mirror each other in crisis and rapture.

‘Doomsday Clock’ reveals Abbe May as an artist who is not content to stay silent in a politically conservative and oppressive environment.

“I am disturbed by the political climate in Australia. We seem to live in a country that is more concerned with #censusfail than about our government’s horrifying abuses of the human rights of refugees. We have lost our way and it bodes very badly for our future. We are being told to fear refugees by the very people we should be focusing our suspicions on – the vast majority of politicians and the big business they work for. They are the ones keeping everyone hungry. They sold us the trickle down lie. Not the refugees. History has shown how conservative governments deliberately fan the flames of the fear of the ‘other’ to keep control and to distract us. They deliberately gut funding for the arts and for education so as to keep us uninformed and therefore unarmed against their policies which are overwhelmingly geared toward creating massive class divide. This is not a time for artists to be silent. We have a job to do.”

 

ABBE MAY – DOOMSDAY CLOCK TOUR 2016

THU NOV 17 – NEWTOWN SOCIAL CLUB – SYDNEY NSW
https://newtownsc.ticketscout.com.au/gigs/5790/AbbeMayNewtown
FRI NOV 18 – TRANSIT BAR – CANBERRA ACT
http://www.moshtix.com.au/v2/event/abbe-may-doomsday-clock-tour/89501
SAT NOV 19 – RAD BAR – WOLLONGONG NSW
http://tinyurl.com/hhb2yp2
THU NOV 24 – NORTHCOTE SOCIAL CLUB – MELBOURNE VIC
https://corner.ticketscout.com.au/gigs/5791/AbbeMayNorth
FRI NOV 25 – THE GRAND HOTEL – MORNINGTON VIC
http://grand.oztix.com.au/?Event=66173
SAT NOV 26 – QUEENSCLIFF MUSIC FESTIVAL – QUEENSLCIFF VIC
http://www.qmf.net.au/festival-tickets
FRI DEC 2 – THE WORKERS CLUB – GEELONG VIC
http://123agency.oztix.com.au/?Event=66180
SAT DEC 3 – THE GRACE EMILY – ADELAIDE SA
http://123agency.oztix.com.au/?Event=66168
FRI DEC 9 – THE BEACH HOTEL – BYRON BAY NSW
Free Entry
SAT DEC 10 – THE BEARDED LADY – BRISBANE QLD
http://123agency.oztix.com.au/?Event=66156
FRI DEC 16 – JACK RABBIT SLIMS – PERTH WA
https://events.ticketbooth.com.au/event/abbe-may-doomsday-clock

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