Yeah, that Ian Moss. From Cold Chisel.

But it's not really what you're thinking. Kingswood were making this 10-minute short film for Micro Wars, the title track from their debut album.

The video centres around the feud between two fictional bikie gangs - the Kings and the Mandrills.

And when it came time to cast a drug-dealing biker, the band thought of Ian Moss.

"We just called his manager and said, 'we want Ian Moss to have a cameo as a drug dealer in our music clip, do you think he'd be into it?"' says Kingswood's guitarist, Alex Laska.

"We asked the question and he was. He likes motorbikes and has the lovely big Indian that he rides, and we were in the right time and place in Sydney."

Laska says the idea was to have an older figure in the music world appear in the video as a sort of hat-tip for their efforts. Also, the band are big fans of the cameo - the Micro Wars film also features Jake Stone from Bluejuice, as well as members of Sticky Fingers, The Preatures and The Rubens.

They're big fans of making short films rather than music videos - they've done the same for their song Ohio, where the band features as a gang speaking badly dubbed Japanese with English subtitles.

"This is more fun and it's more silly," Laska says.

"We spoke our lines in English and dubbed them over in Japanese, which is why it looks silly. That was all really fun - too much fun, maybe. It's like why should we do a video with three minutes of miming, let's do a movie. Simple as that."

The short films come in a fertile period for the band, which has included having their Micro Wars album debut at No6 in the charts, the band get nominated for an ARIA and seeing two songs in the latest triple j Hottest 100.

For Laska, the creation of the art is the key. Getting praise is just icing on the cake.

"You've got to create art that you think is worthwhile," Laska said.

"From then on every single opinion is just as equal and valid as any other. There are a panel of people who have a level of credibility and expertise that allows them to assess it for its merits more professionally. But at the end of the day, it's still whether someone likes it or not and that's equal and it always will be."

That said, Laska agrees that it's nice to have people like their songs.

"They give you a marker of whether people like it, which is really nice. If you're creating art and people like it, it's a nice thing, as opposed to everyone hating it. That makes you question was it something about the art itself or the techniques you're using to do it."