Here is a new mini-video for the song YWCA Trixie. This was shot at various science and art museums in Stockholm, including the same Tomas Saraceno exhibition where we shot the Patricia Soriano short. We talked about the story behind the song recently in an interview, included below. See the video below the cut, or at Vimeo, or Youtube.



From an upcoming interview for Fairtilizer.com, about the song YWCA Trixie – “My wife actually wrote the words for that song. She was in Venice two summers ago. When she tried touching some fruit at a market, she was reprimanded, not knowing it’s not allowed there. She later learned that using your left hand also has a bad aura around it, with the word for “left” even being “sinistra.” Meanwhile, she learned more about Venitian history. Starting in the 60’s, there were these huge cruise ships that would come through. The city was only designed only for smaller commuter boats, and the waves from the large ships did serious damage to the buildings. Basements flooded and collapsed. Trixie was the name of my wife’s swim coach at the YWCA who was an Olympic swimmer for Great Britain. About the chorus: She loved trash day in Venice because to put the trash bags out, people actually lowered them on strings from the windows. So you would walk around and there were trash mobiles dangling from the windows.”

Full lyrics:

Keep your hands off of the bene fruit in Venice
Take a step back, they’re too delicate, you menace
Said the fig admininistra
Your hand’s looking sinistra

Oh me oh my, oh me oh my
It’s trash day in Venice

The boats were fast back in the 60’s
The waves were too much for YWCA Trixie
Buckling broncos, while collapsing basements achoo’d
Were plowing through