Jamie Lenman releases new music video for ‘I Don’t Wanna Be Your Friend’

JAMIE LENMAN has released a new music video!

The new music video, for the track I Don’t Wanna Be Your Friend, is taken from the British musician’s upcoming new mini-album, King of Clubs, which is scheduled to be released in September. The new music video was first premiered via Louder.

Speaking about the new song and its accompanying music video, Lenman says, “I actually had the idea to get a bunch of different people from cool bands all miming the song BEFORE we all went into lockdown, so then when we came around to doing it, it was perfect timing. Of course, then everyone started making these kindsa videos, but whaddyagonnado. It took me about six weeks to edit cos I had to match everyone’s footage together but I was just so overcome by everyone’s commitment to it that their energy kept me going. Some of these people I’ve never even met, but they’re all my heroes and it makes me really proud that we represent a little community calling time on all this antisocial bullshit.

This was the last song we recorded for the album, nasty brutish and short. I was really excited to do something that had a sort of a punk feel, even though it has this huge metal breakdown in the middle. It’s like a little tour of all my previous stuff in one song – from the band days past MUSCLE MEMORY through to now. Lyrically it’s very angry, or rather fed up. I’d been growing tired of the various reasons people give to excuse their awful behaviour for a long time – ‘I was drunk, I was angry, I didn’t mean it’ etc – and they just bubbled over into this song. I hope it can make some people question their actions a bit.”

Watch the official music video for I Don’t Wanna Be Your Friend here: 

King Of Clubs is set for release on September 25th via Big Scary Monsters. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

For more information on JAMIE LENMAN like his official page on Facebook.