Dum Dum Girls - “Under These Hands” (Official Video)

Earlier this year, Dum Dum Girls dropped their new album, Too True, and recently shot a session for clothier All Saints’ London Sessions series. Below you can watch them play the album cut “Under These Hands” in the Dalston bar Shacklewell Arms. It’s a moody black-and-white video, which fits right in with the band’s style.

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Dum Dum Girls are no strangers to the intersecting worlds of art, high fashion and music. So we were hyped up when they recently blessed us with their presence to collaborate on a new London Sessions around their UK tour and promotion of their latest album, the excellent Too True.

Sessions are set in iconic venues in East London, where the space is as much a character on camera as our brilliant musical partners. Following productions at Wapping Power Plant, Truman Brewery and our own rooftop in Shoreditch, we shot the Dum Dum Girls at Dalston's local kick-ass music hub/pub, the Shacklewell Arms, host to many of today's most engaging & relevant artists.

Our approach to capturing the sultry energy of the Dum Dum's standout track, "Under These Hands," was to bring in a live audience and allow for the band to emote within such an intimate space. Reaching out to both the band's social channels and our own, and using custom designed tickets as gateway to entry, a solid crew of fans turned up to pack the venue and form our audience of moving bodies.

The result is a surreal, moving performance highlighting the Dum Dums' provocative stage personas, as well as front-woman Dee Dee's revealing, intimate lyrics.
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