Real Friends attend depressing birthday party in new video for "Sixteen"

July 7, 2015

Tinley Park's Real Friends have premiered a new video for their song “Sixteen” over at Billboard today. The heartbreaking track is off the band's 2014 Fearless Records full-length, Maybe This Place Is The Same, And We're Just Changing.

Fittingly poignant and almost hard to watch, the video accompaniment to “Sixteen” finds a teen in a bowling alley, preparing to celebrate his sixteenth birthday with guests who never show up. The candles on the cake continue to melt down as vocalist Dan Lambton sits not far from the birthday boy, singing “The saddest part is I've been distant since I was sixteen / It keeps me up in bed / I'm stuck here with all the choices I've made / And the chances I was too afraid to take.” The video really makes the lyrics hit harder than ever.

Real Friends' aforementioned album Maybe This Place Is The Same, And We're Just Changing has been nominated for Album Of The Year in the Alternative Press Music Awards this year which take place on July 22 at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, OH. You can also catch the band all summer on the Common Vision Tour with Every Time I Die, Counterparts, Brigades and Gnarwolves. Dates for those shows are below.

The Common Vision Tour w/ Every Time I Die:
July 23 – Richmond, VA @ The National
July 24 – Greensboro, NC @ Greene Street
July 25 – Wilmington, NC @ Ziggy's By The Sea
July 26 – Atlanta, GA @ Centerstage
July 27 – Orlando, FL @ Venue 578
July 29 – Houston, TX @ Scout Bar
July 30 – San Antonio, TX @ Alamo City Music Hall
Ju;y 31 – El Paso, TX @ Tricky Falls
Aug 1 – Tucson, AZ @ Rialto Theatre
Aug 2 – Riverside, CA @ Riverside Municipal Auditorium
Aug 3 – Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst
Aug 4 – Reno, NV @ Knitting Factory
Aug 7 – Colorado Springs, CO @ The Black Sheep
Aug 8 – Lincoln, NE @ Bourbon Theatre
Aug 9 – St Louis, MO @ The Ready Room
Aug 10 – Bloomington, IL @ The Castle Theatre
Aug 11 – Louisville, KY @ Mercury Ballroom
Aug 12 – Grand Rapids, MI @ The Intersection
Aug 13 – Pontiac, MI @ The Crofoot Ballroom
Aug 14 – London, ON @ London Music Hall
Aug 15 – Syracuse, NY @ Lost Horizon
Aug 16 – Patchogue, NY @ The Emporium
Aug 18 – Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground
Aug 19 – New Haven, CT @ College Street Music Hall
Aug 20 – Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom
Aug 21 – Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of Living Arts
Aug 22 – Poughkeepsie, NY @ The Chance Theatre