No Reception by Little Hands of Asphalt Lyric Music Video

Little Hands of Asphalt were asked to play at the Indiefjord festival, the outcome of this was the song No Reception. We produced the lyric video using archive footage obtained from festival goers to capture the essence of the song for the lyric video. Budgets were almost nonexistent, so I would travel and play by myself. Me and my friend Kenneth, who was traveling as a regular festival-goer, had to go west over the mountains to the immensely scenic festival location. So the festival had arranged for us to get a ride from some stranger. In an old hatchback with no aircon (it was a hot summer day), the driver chain smoking and blasting obscure indiepop songs I’d never heard of through the tiny speakers in the car doors. After that trip I was so sick of indiepop. Still, when I got back I wrote No Reception, arguably the most indiepop-sounding song of my songwriting career. Go figure. When you've got an indiepop song, whom other do you ask to contribute than indie darling (sic) Elizabeth Morris? Recorded in her basement in her now native Moss, with a crying toddler (or two) upstairs, her performance is really what turned this song from a good - but admittedly a bit bland pop song - to something quite magical. This song, though being based on a real experience, is also full of lies and half-truths, as usual. I wasn’t even there when the Burning Hell played (spot the reference?). But like I seem to always do, at least I managed to cram in a song about driving, or touring, or the two combined. But ultimately about life and love, I guess.