Back home in Australia the video for the John Butler Trio’s new single ‘Revolution’ will be serviced to TV this week. Made in Los Angeles whilst the band was on tour it was directed by James Minchin III. It’s an emotive black and white clip featuring a band performance interspersed with a large cast of fascinating characters from all walks of life depicting the diversity of humanity and the world we live in today.

Of the inspiration for the track, John Butler said,

“Revolution is such an overused impotent word nowadays, I just wanted to explore the subject and find out what it meant to me. We live in some pretty extreme times .I think a lot of people are considering living in a drastically different way on this planet and with each other. They have to. But the old ideas of reform and revolution are not applicable nor have many “revolutions” really ever brought about meaningful change before they turn into what they were fighting. My idea of revolution is basically taking the R off the word. It’s evolution. It’s not gonna be some fanciful day that comes where everything is going honky dory utopia. That’s bullshit and a practice in futility. You can’t stop evolution. It’s sometimes painfully slow and other times brutally quick but never the less it is on-going. You can rev it up however; accelerate it from time to time by being engaged in your community, by being compassionate. I see that around me. That’s what I concentrate on when I’m being bombarded by the intense images and news of these times. Stay engaged but not inundated. By knowing that the revolution is underway and not some fantasy about to come I’m able to have the energy and optimism to keep being part of this eternal, unstoppable REVOLUTION.”

Check out the Video here:
http://jbtserver.com/blog/videos/revolution-2010/