9. April 2024 By Walter Price 0

VIDEO: HOLIDAY SIDEWINDER Escape & Retreat

Holiday Sidewinder Escape & Retreat is available on Deezer, Tidal, Spotify

When it comes to the emotional turmoil and isolation the pandemic dumped on the planet, I think most of us can relate to the feeling of the “Just gotta cry, just to survive” line in Holiday Sidewinder’s aptly titled single, “Escape & Retreat”.

A song’s origin story Sidewinder shared with me, “I was living alone in Cyprus during the pandemic, listening to John Martyn’s “Glorious Fool” (produced by Phil Collins) on repeat. The album title satirises Ronald Regan’s ascent to the White House. Coincidentally, I was watching Trump’s ascent to the White House when I started writing this song. It felt like the world and my life was going to shit and where I was, was an escape and retreat from the chaos -somewhere with heat, palm trees, and peace.”

Now, we may not be able to relate to having Cyprus as our lockdown setting. Still, we can connect to the scenes in this single’s Fabiànne Thérèse Gstöttenmayr-directed music video. Endless unsober days on the sofa, watching or streaming media updates, old movies/TV shows, and fantasizing about escaping (if you will) our uncertain situation.

Holiday Sidewinder takes on all the roles à la Eddie Murphy or Lindsay Lohan. The intoxicated seized woman, news reporter, Maria von Trapp, Baywatch’s Pamela Anderson, and alter-ego comedian Jenny Sidewinder (who reminds me of Paula Poundstone; coincidence?), and then there’s the ultimate and much dreamt of getaway! Oops, she did it again—Captivating her evergrowing audience with another beachy single and brilliant music video.

You can stream the single and daydream along to the music video, here at the GTC.