My New Band Believe Premieres "In the Blink of an Eye" Video, Directed by Botsu_NGS

News

My New Band Believe's New Video Is a Japanese Fishing Expedition

Directed by Dos Monos’ Botsu_NGS, “In the Blink of an Eye” stars local fisherman Hiroki Kaniya By Jazz Monroe May 7, 2026 Save this story Save this story

Off the back of last month’s self-titled debut , My New Band Believe , the project of Black Midi ’s Cameron Picton, have added a string of October UK tour dates and shared a video for “In the Blink of an Eye.” Directed by Dos Monos member Botsu_NGS and starring the fisher Hiroki Kaniya , the video is described in a press release as a “Japanese seafaring odyssey”: In it, Kaniya goes about his daily routine on a boat in Ishikawa prefecture. Watch it go down (not literally) below, and scroll down for all the latest tour dates, including a few in upgraded venues.

Read more about Dos Monos in Kieran Press-Reynolds’ column Meet the Young Wikipedians Writing the Front Page of Music History .

My New Band Believe: 05-06 Oxford, England - Common Ground (workshop show) 05-23 Brussels, Belgium - Les Nuits Botanique 05-28 Brooklyn, NY - Elsewhere (Zone One) 05-29 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church 05-30 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge 06-01 Kingston, NY - Tubby’s 06-02 Amherst, MA - The Drake 06-03 Montreal, Quebec - Sotterenea 06-05 Toronto, Ontario - Monarch (Early Show) 06-05 Toronto, Ontario - Monarch (Late Show) 06-06 Detroit, MI - Lager House 06-07 Chicago, IL - Constellation 07-19 London, England - Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre * 08-06 Haldern, Germany - Haldern Pop Festival 08-07 Genk, Belgium - AFF Festival 08-08 Haldern, Germany - Haldern Pop Festival 08-13 Gothenburg, Sweden - Way Out West Festival 08-15 Mannheim, Germany - Maifeld Derby Festival 08-21-23 Bannau Brycheiniog, Wales - Green Man Festival 08-27 Los Angeles, CA - Lodge Room 08-28 San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Stop 08-30 Sacramento, CA - The Starlet Room 08-31 Portland, OR - Polaris Hall 09-01 Seattle, WA - Barboza 09-02 Vancouver, British Columbia - The Fox Cabaret 09-04-06 Chicago, IL - Sound & Gravity Festival 10-07 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Cinetol 10-11 Copenhagen, Denmark - Stengade 10-13 Hamburg, Germany - Stubnitz 10-14 Berlin, Germany - Venue TBA 10-15 Prague, Czechia - Malostranská Beseda 10-17 Antwerp, Belgium - Trix 10-19 Paris, France - La Maroquinerie (Venue Upgrade) 10-22 Newcastle, England - Cluny 2 10-23 Edinburgh, Scotland - Cabaret Voltaire 10-26 Liverpool, England - District 10-27 Cardiff, Wales - The Globe 10-28 Brighton, England - Concorde 2 10-31 Guimaraes, Spain - Mucho Flow Festival 11-02 Madrid, Spain - Cadavra 11-03 Barcelona, Spain - Paral.el.club 11-04 Milan, Italy - Arci Bellezza 11-05 Turin, Italy - Spazio 211

* Rough Trade 50 show with Caroline

_Originally reported by [Pitchfork](https://pitchfork.com/news/my-new-band-believes-new-video-in-the-blind-of-an-eye/)._