Bionic Buzz® got to interview David Barr lead singer of the band The Moon Kids. We talked about where his passion for music came from, their new single / music video for “Touch Of Venice” and more.

The song is inspired by the band’s first time playing in Los Angeles, and seeing Venice Beach for the first time through “stormy eyes.” The song is also titled after the iconic graffiti mural in Venice Beach.

Working for the second time with film company Tongue Twister Films, the video for “Touch of Venice” picks up where the previous video for the EP’s first single, “Enemy,” left off as we see the band pull away from Granton projects in a (borrowed) $500,000 Aston Martin. They then pull up at Paradise Palms in the U.K. to perform the song. Speaking of the video, Barr states, “I really wanted to have a crazy contrast between the two backdrops, palm trees and an Aston Martin in a harsh concrete environment. That’s why we performed at Paradise Palms. It’s almost like we’re leaving a bleak setting to flourish on a bigger stage where we feel we belong. It’s kind of just saying regardless of where you are at, if your soul and strength of will is big enough, then you can be wherever you think you should be.”

A global pandemic couldn’t stop the will of lead singer/songwriter David Barr to follow his dreams of traveling to California to continue work on the new EP. Due to border restrictions on U.K. citizens, the only way into America was to spend 14 days in Mexico. The second line of the song is, “We used to ride with the hurricanes.” Little did Barr know when he wrote this pre-quarantine that he would manifest this line into a reality.

Earlier in October while still in Mexico, Barr was directly in the eye of the storm as Hurricane Delta barreled straight for his hotel. He was forced to spend 48 hours in a hurricane shelter sleeping on pool deck chairs with 1200 other stranded travelers. With no working phone and no luggage, he left the hotel with the clothes on his back, a pillow and of course, a mask. Once through the hurricane, and the mandatory 14 days in Mexico, David arrived in California ready to further the dreams of his band who continued to rehearse back in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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