Phantom Island is out June 13, 2025 on http://www.pdoomrecords.com/
Director / Editor: Guy Tyzack
Co-Director: Ambrose Kenny-Smith
Cinematographer/Colour grader: Tom Dunphy
Produced by Guy Tyzack & Tom Dunphy
Super 8 DOP: Guy Tyzack
Camera Assistant: Christy Chudosnik
Costume Designer: Caity Westlake
Runner: Zac Main
Makeup: Nadine Muller
Prosthetics: April Thurrowgood
Aeroplane build: Boxwars
16mm film processing: Neglab
Super 8 film processing: Nanolab
Film scanning: Memorylab
Eshay: Lilgerbs
Strongman: Ryger G Miles
Flight attendant: Hayley Mayall
Swing Dancers: Miyako Miyazaki, Josh Varcoe, Steph Ashby, Joel Kohn, Kate Bray, Chris Sutton, Gabby Urban, Nick Ellis Friedl
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Initial band recording by Sam Joseph
Orchestral arrangement by Chad Kelly
Orchestral recording by Lachlan Carrick and Ross Cockle
Orchestra conducted by Brett Kelly
Overdubs by King Gizzard
Mixed by Stu Mackenzie
Produced by Stu Mackenzie
Mastered by Joe Carra
Orchestral Contractors – Roscoe Irwin, Cameron Jamieson
Musical Consultant – Roscoe Irwin
Saxophone: Tim Wilson, Lachlan Davidson, Phil Noy
Trumpet: Patrick McMullin, Daniel Beasy, Shane Hooton
Trombone: Chris Vizard, James Bowman, Joe O’Callaghan
DEADSTICK
There once flew a pilot, high and free
Danced with the clouds
Pirouetted with the breeze
But out of synch to the mechanical beat that pulsed at the heart of the metal machine
Thought of their partner and thought of their kids
Thought where they’re going and thought where they’d been
But a subtle change
The routine shattered
Prepare the mind
Arrange the matters
Deadstick
Deadstick
I’m a bird with a broken wing
Deadstick (deadstick)
Deadstick (deadstick)
This nightingale can’t sing
I wake with a retch to the smell of ammonia and my eyes start watering
A shadow?
A body?
“Who are you?” I say when a voice cracks like a frozen lake
“I am your child,
You are my mother and I’m sitting here dying”
I say “I got no children, I am but a boy, you are mistaken
”She sings “Follow me down through the wind and the earth
to the edge of the forgotten seas”
“Save me from the hurt”
“Tell me of my worth”
“A phantom is taking everything”
Deadstick
Death wish
Panic in the cockpit
Praying in the cabin
We’re all holding hands
Deadstick
Death wish
Lost all propulsive
Propellers ain’t spinning
Being forced to land
Deadstick
Death wish
We’re shutting off the engines
Blues skies are turning a darker grey
Deadstick
Death wish
Heading for the smoking hole in the airfield I can’t locate
Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! Save me!
I’m in a tight spot
Catastrophe
Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! Save me!
I’m ‘bout to make a crash landing
Deadstick
Deadstick
I’m a bird with a broken wing
Deadstick
Deadstick
This nightingale can’t sing
Yeah!
Deadstick
Death wish
I can’t believe we made it out alive
Deadstick
Death wish
Send me help before I die
