00.00.11

Walking into a building

00.00.12

Zeid walking in building and up the stairs

Zeid: I am basically a guitarist, I do music, compose songs. I wanted to set up a rock band.

Voice: One of Lebanon’s new bands in the New Government, and this is their latest single

00.00.24

Zeid and band performing

Music playing

00.00.49

Band playing on TV

Zeid: we were named the government not the new government. But a month after we created the band, Hariri exploded; the Prime Minister here exploded, so we re-baptised the group as the New Government.

00.00.56

Inside studio

Band playing music

00.01.28

Zeid walking on terrace

00.01.35

Inside Zeid’s home

Zeid: this is the party I am doing. I booked a brothel in Beirut, an old brothel and I did the New Government’s concert in the brothel.

00.01.51

Inside the brothel

Brothels here are called ‘super night clubs’. So we were playing on the fantasy of people because lot of people fantasise about brothels but never go there. And making a concert there, we wanted to open new spaces for concerts and play on the fantasy.

00.02.08

Band playing

Music playing

00.03.02

Zeid walking into the room

Zeid: I like the concept of little bomb because the concept of spraying bombs in Lebanon is like a wake up call. You know we all have a tendency to sleep. Even when we are awake and living in Lebanon, we have a sleeping mind and we forget the state of war in which we are living. It’s recently that the South has been released and even more recently, we don’t have the Syrians anymore. But we still have the Syrians, that’s what the bomb is about. No I can’t say that the Syrians put the bomb but we can guess… we speculate