Melbourne based rock/pop quartet Alex Watts & the Foreign Tongue released their latest single, ‘This Haunting’ earlier this year, which was celebrated with an east coast tour including a packed out launch at Melbourne’s iconic Cherry Bar. Receiving national airplay and the attention of music blogs both in Australia and overseas, ‘This Haunting’, helped create something of a buzz surrounding the band, whilst showcasing their evolution since 2011’s debut EP Desperate Love.

This film clip was in part fan-funded, via a successful campaign on crowd-sourcing website Pozible, and is the directorial debut of lead singer, Alex Watts. The story is told from the point of view of an elderly woman in the grips of dementia, who has become convinced that the husband she once murdered has returned to haunt her, and claim his revenge on her life. Veteran stage actor Shirley Cattunar plays the role of the wife, whilst Alex Watts and Ana Kingsley appear as the younger versions of the husband and wife, in the remembered murder scene.

The song was co-written with Mick Thomas (Weddings, Parties, Anything) and besides the members of the Foreign Tongue, being bassist Brian Juffs, drummer Michael McHugh and Alex on guitar and vocals, features a horn section borrowed from The Australian Ska Orchestra, which lends an upbeat, playful energy to the music, also reflected in the clip’s tongue-in-cheek use of melodrama and effects. ‘This Haunting’ is one chapter from a longer song cycle which will be the focus Alex Watts & the Foreign Tongue’s debut album in 2013.

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