THE STORY BEHIND THE WAIT VIDEO

Years ago, when Kari Reini, the band's drummer and primus motor, saw a dream where bunch of wild animals chased him across some old city streets, the song The Wait was a soundtrack to that dream. This dream came back to his mind when he saw a documentary about the Fiesta of San Fermin, where men are chased by wild bulls in the narrow streets of Pamplona.

A trip to the Fiesta of San Fermin, was immediately accepted by La Familia after the band found out that the run is dedicated to bishop Fermin, who gained sainthood after a martyr death in the streets of Pamplona. The band would make their debut video from the song The Wait in Spain, at the Pamplona Bull Run.

The band decided to dedicate the run and the video to the close friend of La Familia, who was losing her battle against terminal cancer. All this closes a circle and the theme of album, How To Handle The Pain.

The video was obviously decided to made within La Familia. Band's technicians acted as cameramen, riggers and location managers and the band's webmaster was chosen to be the director. As the shooting in the middle of the running bulls is extremely difficult, the crew was equipped with pen and button cameras and every trick imaginable to get the shots needed for the video. Band members risked their lives while running the streets of Pamplona with the wild bulls and cameramen chose their locations every morning, hours before the actual run started at 8am. The video shoot went rather smoothly, with only minor injuries to the runners and crew. Most serious accident happened when the man whose dream was the starting point to this adventure fractured his hand while a bull decided to run over him at most dangerous spot of the run. But the pain was handled and The Wait was finally over after 30 hours of material from the five day trip to Pamplona was edited at the 45DW headquarters into the first music video ever filmed at the Fiesta of San Fermin.

The Wait video