The work of the late David Lynch has been a massive influence on Gates Of Light’s Louise Quinn and her collaborations with award-winning filmmaker Uisdean Murray over the years.
“We’ve worked together so much that we’ve developed a language,” says the Scottish singer/songwriter. “When I asked him if he could make something for ‘10,000 Years,’ he’d just seen the clip from Lost Highway where Patricia Arquette was filmed very simply with a flickering blue-light effect.”
The eerie, ethereal “10,000 Years” was written with Gates Of Light’s Scott Fraser. “We both come from East Kilbride, the same Scottish town where the Jesus And Mary chain grew up,” says Quinn. “We get each other and have a similar modus operandi: If you can dream it, you can do it.”
“10,000 Years” can be found on the Gates Of Light II compilation, available February 14 on Last Night From Glasgow. Feeding off the success of 2021’s Gates Of Light, the new LP features tracks from a trio of EPs produced in Glasgow, Paris and London by Finlay MacDonald, Kid Loco and Fraser, respectively. Serializing her recent work came out of necessity for Quinn, a single parent caring for five-year-old twins. She even worked remotely to film the “10,000 Years” video.
“I filmed myself on my iPhone,” she says. “To achieve the blackout, I had to use my winter coat, pin it with clothes pegs and use whatever was available at home. I worked quickly while the kids were at school.”
Despite the homemade trapping, Quinn describes the experience as cathartic. “I started crying during the first take,” she says. “I didn’t know what Uisdean would do with the footage, but it’s actually perfect for the track. It really captures this intensely human experience of grief in the vastness of eternity and time.”
We’re proud to premiere Gates Of Light’s “10,000 Years” video.
—Hobart Rowland
