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Video Premiere: PJ Bond's "Nevermind"

Check out this premiere of PJ Bond's new video for “Nevermind.” Over the past three weeks, we've premiered videos and songs from PJ, as well as published his thoughts and lyrics for each. “Nevermind” is the third and final installment. The first and second pieces—”I'm In A Bad Way” and “Reasons”—can be seen here and here, respectively.

“Nevermind”
You know, when I started this off, I thought it was over. My future was uncertain, but I guess that's how it always is. I hoped that I could make it alone, I knew that I would have to be reborn. I'm breaking rusty old chains and habits, forming new ones. My family got scattered about, so I went to find them. I made new friends in the north and the east along the way.  So if you are with me tonight, I hope that you'll be with me until we die. If not, I've fucked up, so nevermind. I want to give it all, i want to give it all, at least a little bit. Maybe we can have it all, we can have it, but what if it's not enough? So, now we have to question, have to face the facts, always have to question, “are you going to crack?”  I hope you know the answer you can't take it back, or they won't like it, they won't like your style. I slipped my way across the great icy west and I slid by. I watched as the snow blew across my face, and it spun me wild. I thought that I could make it alone, I hoped that I would stay alive until the coast. I wish someone looked after me but they nevermind. 

“Nevermind” was a song that didn't quite make sense with the majority of the other tunes I'd been working on, and that became even more obvious when my friends and I recorded it. This version of the song is a bit more “rock” than some of my other music, which I really like about it, but I couldn't figure out how to bridge the gap when trying to include it on a “proper” record. So, the obvious choice was to not force it and just release it as its own thing. For a while I'd wanted to compile a bunch of tour videos I'd captured, but wasn't sure how I wanted to go about it. Between batteries dying, forgetting the camera in the car, laziness and a whole host of other things, I had large chunks of great stuff that were perhaps a bit disjunct, due to missing footage. This video was a good way to put this song and all these snippets together.

 

Bond is currently on an extensive European tour. Check out the remaining dates below.

Sat / Nov-26 Regensburg, GER – Zimmer 4, Werftstraße 15, 93059
Sun / Nov-27 Enkirch, GER – TOMs Enkirch, Weingasse 12, 56850
Mon / Nov-28 Oberburg, ZWI – Restaurant Bahnhof, Krauchtalstrasse 94
Tue / Nov-29 Saanen, ZWI – Oeyetl, Oeyetliweg 30, 3792
Wed / Nov-30 Zurich, ZWI – Kontiki Bar, Niederdorfstrasse 24, 8001
Thu / Nov-01 Geneva, ZWI – Le Cabinet, 54, bd St-Georges – 1205
Fri / Nov-02 Lausanne, ZWI – TBC
Sat / Nov-03 Lyon, FRA – The Beers, 3 Place Saint-Paul, 69005

Dec
UK
Sat / Dec-10 Cardiff – The Full Moon, Womamby Street, Cardiff, CF10 1BR
Sun / Dec-11 Swansea – Mozarts, 76A Walter Road, W Glam SA1 4QA
Tue / Dec-13 Birmingham – Sunflower Lounge, 76 Smallbrook Queensway, B5 4EG
Wed / Dec-14 Manchester – Well Wisher house (email [email protected] for address)
Thu / Dec-15 Glasgow – The Captain’s Rest, 185 Great Western Road, G4 9EB
Fri / Dec-16 Girvan – Z1 Youth club, 154 Dalrymple Street, KA26 9BQ
Sat / Dec-17 Edinburgh – The Banshee’s Labrynth, 29-35 Niddry St.  EH1 1LG
Sun / Dec-18 Leeds – House show (email [email protected] for address)
Mon / Dec-19 Lincoln – The Red Room, 37 Broadgate, LN2 5AE
Tue / Dec-20 Nottingham – The Maze, 257 Mansfield Road, NG1 3FT