John Butler Uses Bully To Portray WA Premier In New Video
John Butler Trio

John Butler Trio

John Butler Uses Bully To Portray WA Premier In New Video

by Paul Cashmere on August 6, 2014

in New Music,News

John Butler is using the storyboard of a schoolyard bully to tell a broader story in his new video ‘How Do You Sleep At Night’.

While the bully is the focus of the video Butler actually wrote the song after a confrontation with the West Australian Premier Colin Barnett in an airport lounge.

The argument with Barnett was over the approval of construction of a gas plant on sacred land of Indigenous Australians.

“At the end of the discussion I suggested we put all the ecological, economic and political differences aside and just asked him how he’d feel if it were his ancestors’ graves that were being dug up for a gas plant,” Butler says.

Barnett didn’t have an answer to the question so instead Butler wrote this song.

“I especially love the drama that plays out in the video and the ‘flip’ that takes place,” says Butler. “By the way, we stopped the gas plant from being built, too. Ten years of community action and passion. People power still prevails!”

John Butler Trio dates

October 4, Sunshine Coast, Caloundra Music Festival
October 5, Toowoomba, Empire Theatre
October 7, Bundaberg, Moncrieff Entertainment Centre
October 10, Townsville, The Venue
October 11, Kuranda, Kuranda Amphitheatre

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