Dateline - Dumb For My Age

What this video is

Released in June 2021 with NZ On Air Music funding, 'Dumb For My Age' sits squarely within a period of heightened visibility for Aotearoa's indie-pop underground. Dateline, the project of Hastings-based songwriter Katie Everingham, draws on the same Auckland indie cluster — Hans Pucket, The Beths, BUB, Lips — that defines the post-Flying Nun successor scene distributed via Sunreturn Records. The video was produced…

Why it matters

The video documents the 2020s Aotearoa indie-pop moment — a genre blending early-2000s indie-pop harmonics with 1990s UK guitar-group influence — at the point of transition from single release to debut album cycle. Its DIY Sports Team aesthetic has become a visual shorthand for the Auckland indie…

The director

Sports Team is the Auckland-based music video production duo of Callum Devlin and Annabel Kean. Devlin is a Massey Fine Arts graduate who draws on design and installation experience; Kean holds a broadcast journalism degree and specialises in DIY animation.…