Deja Vu
by Emma Chalmers
Courier Mail, July 4, 2003

MELBOURNE band Something For Kate found themselves in a state of repetition in Brisbane last week.

The trio -- Paul Dempsey, Stephanie Ashworth and Clint Hyndman -- jetted in to Queensland to shoot the film clip for their forthcoming single Deja Vu. Holed up in an Albion studio from 6am, the group brought to visual life the new song under the guidance of Logan director Grant Marshall and producer Nick Wolff. 

Marshall, who works as a director for Film Headquarters in the City, has also directed film clips for local band George and for ex-Savage Garden frontman Darren Hayes. Ashworth says the band were inspired to head north to make their 14th film clip because of the calibre of those in the business.

"There's lots of good people up here to work with," she says. "There's talented directors, talented director of photography, everybody here knows what they're doing.

"We wanted to work with someone different. We've done a lot of videos in Melbourne, we've made one in Japan and we've made one in Sydney."

The production crew had only a short space of time to knock up the set -- half of a square hotel corridor -- after they were approached by record company Sony only two weeks before. Ashworth says the premise for the film clip was literally the idea of repetition, which is immortalised in the character played by Something For Kate frontman Dempsey.

"Paul's a character who walks out of his hotel room and you assume he's going to work, he has a newspaper under his arm, coffee, and he's in a suit," she says.

"He walks along the hotel corridor but he can't leave the hotel corridor -- the same thing keeps happening over and over again, three, four times.

"It kind of loosely borrows from the idea of Groundhog Day."

The film clip for Deja Vu is expected to be on screens by next weekend ahead of the single's release on Monday . Something For Kate play Troccadero Entertainment Centre, today; Arena, tomorrow.