Switchfoot Releases Awakening Video

|PIC1|Switchfoot recently released a new music video for "Awakening", from their latest critically acclaimed album Oh! Gravity..

"'Awakening' has become a favourite of yours and ours, and it feels good to have you involved in helping us choose this single," Switchfoot said on their website.

The video features Tony Hale (Arrested Development, Because I Said So, Stranger Than Fiction), Adam Campbell (Epic Movie) and Jayma Mays (Heroes).

"The traditional concept of a music video can be a bit surreal, lip-synching to your own songs can feel especially comical at times!" says Switchfoot member Tim Foreman.

"With this irony in mind we wanted to make a video that doesn't take itself too seriously, even if the song itself is dealing with weighty issues... to make a music video that tells a different story than the song is already telling us.

"The song exists in a space entirely on its own, and nothing will ever add or subtract from what the song already is - why not use the video as a vehicle to go somewhere new? Somewhere that the song hasn't already been on it's own?"

In addition, the band recently announced a string of concert appearances at major Christian music festivals in the US throughout summer 2007.

Switchfoot will hit the ground running at the Ichthus Festival on 16 June in Kentucky, Alive Festival on 22 June in Ohio, Creation Northeast on 27 June in Pennsylvania, Cornerstone Festival on 29 June in Illinois, Sonshine Festival on 14 July Minnesota, Creation Northwest on 27 July in Washington, and Spirit West Coast on 8 August in California.

Switchfoot's latest album Oh! Gravity. has been critically acclaimed worldwide, with the Associated Press calling it "an outstanding record in every sense".

Their previous album The Beautiful Letdown went double-platinum in 2004.