blink-182 recently shot a music video for their new single, “After Midnight.” Mark Hoppus did an interview discussing the music video and the concept behind it. Read a full interview here and a snippet of it below by clicking “Read More”.

How did the ‘After Midnight’ video shoot go down?
We did the band performance section in a hangar that was built in the 1940s to construct blimps inside of. It’s the world’s largest freestanding wooden structure, so there’s an interesting piece of trivia for you. It was just this really cool setting — the way that they lit it, the way that they shot it. It just had this really industrial yet organic feel to it. It was a good combination of the two because it is obviously a giant superstructure but because it’s wooden and because the way that they shot it with water on the ground, everything looked really organic as well.

What is the concept behind the video?
We went out to a lot of different directors on this one. I think we had 30 different submissions from different directors and 30 different treatments, some of which were great and some of which were not so good. This one with Isaac [Rentz, the director] stuck out. We trust Isaac, he did a great job on the ‘Up All Night’ video. We just told people we wanted something that was troubled. We wanted something that was a little strange. We didn’t want the complete abandon of ‘Up All Night’ but we wanted something that was a little troubled because the song is a troubled love song. Isaac came up with this idea of a guy and a girl trapped inside of an insane asylum. They find one another, they escape themselves for the evening and they have a night of reckless romance before they get put back into their cells.