Promo News

Cate Le Bon’s Shoeing The Bones by Ewan Jones Morris and Casey Raymond

David Knight — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:29:34 +0000

As with their previous Cate Le Bon video, the excellent Hollow Trees House Hounds, Ewan Jones Morris and Casey Raymond conjure up all kind of weird and wonder stuff – this time not so much animation- as equine-based – for Shoeing The Bones. And it’s even more idiosyncratic, mystical and even slightly controversial. What accounts [...]

Casually Sunshine’s Brother Build Me A Wooden Horse by Oliver Goodrum

Jimmy B — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:30:43 +0000

Oliver Goodrum’s promo for this introspective tune from Casually Sunshine highlights the intense emotion and sparseness of the track by placing singer Alexander Craig in a remote, empty house. From director Goodrum: “It was an amazing team effort, Sagal did an incredible job begging lots people for their help, she even spent the nights before the [...]

Julien Temple gives Jimi Hendrix a Glastonbury moment with Bleeding Heart

David Knight — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:35:19 +0000

Julien Temple’s acclaimed Dr Feelgood documentary Oil City Confidential has enjoyed a great run in cinemas, and his other new film, the superb Requiem For Detroit?, was screened on BBC2 last Saturday (and is available to download for a short while longer on iPlayer). But while confirming his position as one of the UK’s greatest documentary-makers, [...]

Exit Calm’s Hearts And Minds by Ben Lankester & Gary Osborne

Jimmy B — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:30:23 +0000

Taken from their self-titled debut album (out in May), the widescreen indie rock of Exit Calm’s Hearts And minds comes accompanied by a tale of misunderstanding from Ben Lankester & Gary Osborne. The band’s performance, looking particularly moody bathed in Peter Austin’s lighting, was shot on RED, with the narrative shot on EX-1 with the [...]

The Invisible’s Jacob & The Angel by Sam Walker

Jimmy B — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:15:45 +0000

Fallon creative director Sam Walker’s second excursion into music videos – after last year’s controversial clip for Ruarri Joseph’s More Than Most – is another remarkable low-budget promo, this time for Mercury Prize-nominated post-rockers The Invisible. His video for Jacob & The Angel is full of maverick charm – and it shows what can be done [...]

Pomplamoose do Lady Gaga’s Telephone

David Knight — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:26:08 +0000

Pomplamoose – excellent exponents of the homemade VideoSong – have swiftly jumped the Gaga/Beyoncé bandwagon with their own version of Telephone. Featuring their very own Shameless Product Placement. Its had almost Gaga-like results: nearly 600,000 views on their YouTube channel in a mere three days. It’s not hard to figure out why – one online [...]

Hot Chip’s I Feel Better by Peter Serafinowicz

David Knight — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:52:29 +0000

Hot Chip’s new one, the debut video by talented comedian and uncanny Wogan impersonator Peter Serafinowicz, is a wish-fulfillment dream for anyone who a) would like to control a boyband with bolts of electricity streaming from their mouth, or b) like to be a disembodied head destroying all trace of manufactured pop nonsense by firing [...]

Scott Ryan’s Vanishing by Justin Dial

Jimmy B — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:45:47 +0000

Chronicling the journey of a loner to a cat sanctuary – The Cast House On The Kings – Justin Dial’s charming promo for Californian singer-songwriter Scott Ryan’s Vanishing, paints a picture of lonliness and desolation to match the profound sparseness of the music. Scott Ryan Vanishing Director: Justin Dial Production Company: jdialfilm.com Producer/editor: Justin Dial

Robbie Williams’ Morning Sun by Vaughan Arnell

Jimmy B — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:30:23 +0000

For the big orchestral ballad from his Reality Killed The Video Star album (and Official Sports Relief single), Robbie is back with his old mucker Vaughan Arnell, who casts him as a lonely astronaut on solo voyage to a space station above Earth in this excellent video for Morning Sun. With some exquisite lighting and photography [...]

Lunik’s People Hurt People by Luc Janin

Jimmy B — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:30:42 +0000

For their current Swedish chart-topper People Hurt People, Swiss outfit Lunik commissioned Luc Janin to translate their emo indie tones to the small screen. This is Janin’s first video with a female lead vocal which gave him an opportunity to explore a softer approach – even though the promo contains plastic bears, 4000 ping pong [...]

Massive Attack’s Saturday Comes Slow by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin

David Knight — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:58:52 +0000

On the second floor of Cambridge University’s Department of Engineering, behind a vast array of home made speakers and Seventies-era hi-fi equipment, sits a rarely-used container-sized room called the Anechoic Chamber – a room designed to create total silence. On visiting an Anechoic Chamber, John Cage entered expecting to hear silence, but he wrote later: [...]

Cinnamon Chasers’ Luv Deluxe wins best video at SXSW

David Knight — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:11:55 +0000

The video for Cinnamon Chasers’ Luv Deluxe directed by Saman Keshavarz won best video at the South by Southwest Film Festival last night (March 16th). A multi-layered noir road movie, Luv Deluxe is told from the perspective of a young man as he hooks up with a girl and embarks on a crime spree, [...]

Roll Deep’s Good Times by Rock Jacobs

Jimmy B — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:30:44 +0000

For this retro 90’s Club Chart stormer, director Rock Jacobs unleashes a literal translation of the lyric – champagne, party, good times, big city, beautiful girls etc. – with this fast-paced, quick-edit, bright, dance promo. Roll Deep Good Times (Relentless) Director: Rock Jacobs Production Company: Rebel State Entertainment Producer: Jonson D’Angelo DoP: Dennis Madden Editor: Giovani Hidalgo Representation: OBManagement Commissioner: James Hackett

BUG 18: WhoMadeWho’s Keep Me In My Plane by William Stahl

David Knight — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:59:28 +0000

Bestselling author – check; wealthy businessman – check; garlanded actor – check; Nobel prize winner – you betcha… But WhoMadeWho lead singer Tomas Höffting demonstrates that all the success in the world cannot quite fill the hollowness within. Danish director William Stahl demonstrates how to put a performance at the hub of a great idea in [...]

Tiga’s What You Need by Cassiano Prado

Jimmy B — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:45:01 +0000

Gorgeous, atmospheric and ultimately grisly Italian Giallo-meets-Hitchcock creation for the consistently eccentric Tiga by London-based VFX-centric director Cassiano Prado. Apparently it’s all based on a series of short narrative poems that Tiga has written about replacing Canada’s wooded areas with green screens and weird models, and avid Tiga Story Club readers will be able to spot [...]

N-Dubz’ Say It’s Over by Ben Peters

Jimmy B — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:30:33 +0000

For N-Dubz’ new single Say It’s Over, director Ben Peters took the Camden trio into space featuring some slick art department, a £1m one-off Renault car and a wall of Briese lights to heighten the excitement. The video marks a continuing fruitful collaboration between the band and Lut! Med!a. N-Dubz Say It’s Over (All Around The World) Director: [...]

Birdeatsbaby’s I Always Hang Myself With The Same Rope by Philippa Bloomfield

David Knight — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:58:05 +0000

After her no-budget videos for The Trouble – featured at Birds Eye View’s Music Loves Video screening – and Miserable, here is Philippa Bloomfield’s third video for Brighton-based ‘dark cabaret’ band Birdeatsbaby – in which Phillippa plays drums. A lo-fi Hitchcockian tale with Fifties styling – including back projections – with Birdeatsbaby’s charismatic vocalist Mishkin as [...]

BUG 18: Hold Your Horses!’s 70 Million by L’Ogre

David Knight — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:56:23 +0000

Ingenious, witty, life-affirming, low budget and a total joy to behold, the new four-strong directing collective known as L’Ogre have created something very special for the unsigned Paris-based indie-folk outfit Hold Your Horses! L’Ogre – that’s David Freymond, Bruno Mendes, Olivier Tixier and Catherine Villeminot – have fashioned brilliant ‘live’ versions of some of the [...]

Gabriella Cilmi’s On A Mission by Michael Gracey

Jimmy B — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:30:01 +0000

Released just ahead of her second album next week, Australian singer-songwriter Gabriella Cilmi teamed up with Michael Gracey for On A Mission. Gracey has delivered a post-heavy, glossy, space-age romp mirroring this fast-paced, Joe Jackson-esque pop stormer. Gabriella Cilmi On A Mission (Island) Director: Michael Gracey Production Company: Partizan Producer: Rhun Francis DoP: Alex Melman Art Director: David Lee Stylist: Susie Coulthard Make-up: [...]

Lady Gaga & Beyoncé’s Telephone by Jonas Akerlund

Jimmy B — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:10:32 +0000

Jonas Akerlund and Gaga’s successor to the wonderful Paparazzi – the one that really established the now familiar ‘damaged-diva’ persona – is a phenomenon: 14 million hits on Youtube in three days, since it debuted as an exclusive to Vevo at midnight, New York time, on Thursday. Gaga is a vengeful coutured sociopath and Beyoncé at [...]

Shane Davey wins 28 Day Feature Film Challenge with The Horror of the Dolls – special screening at ICA tomorrow

David Knight — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:08:59 +0000

Congratulations to Shane Davey at Davey Inc who’s just been announced as the winner of the 28 Day Feature Film Challenge for his debut feature The Horror Of The Dolls. The film will be screened tomorrow at 12:00 noon at the ICA on the Southbank, so if you wish to attend, contact Shane at shane@daveyinc.com [...]

Florence And The Machine’s Dog Days Are Over by LEGS

David Knight — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:56:37 +0000

If what’s gone before was very good, this puts Florence in a whole new league. This is an absolutely stunning, simply beautiful video by New York-based directing team LEGS. Brilliant. The performance video is back. Florence And The Machine Dog Days Are Over (Island) Director: LEGS Producer: Malachy Mcanenny Prod co: Rokkit Representation: OBmanagement Editor: Paul Snyder At Lost Planet Ad: Sam [...]

Yeasayer’s ONE by Radical Friend

Jimmy B — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:30:36 +0000

Following a successful collaboration on the mesmerising, hyper-surreal Ambling Alp, Yeasayer are reunited with Kirby McClure and Julia Grigorian – aka Radical Friend – for new single ONE. This one sees the band playing behind a chain link fence at a mid-afternoon warehouse rave, where the Flashdancing high-fashion New Romantic crowd are witness to a [...]

Between The Eyes now at Pulse Films for music and ads as Between The Eyes @ Pulse

David Knight — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:53:36 +0000

Pulse Films has incorporated the music video and advertising activities of Between The Eyes, with the BTE roster now existing as a separate identity, or label, within the Pulse stable called Between The Eyes @ Pulse. The deal will result in Pulse representing Between The Eyes’ directing roster – including Eran Creevy, Mat Whitecross, Perou, [...]

White Pony’s Falling by William Stahl

Jimmy B — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:30:33 +0000

For White Pony’s quirky Falling, comes this excellent promo from William Stahl at Good Boy! Creative in Copenhagen which includes some smashing slow-mo effects and a wonderfully dry performance from the Danish band. It’s a scientific experiment – to test the damage inflicted on the human body by middle class conformity. In a controlled [...]

Goldfrapp’s Rocket by Kim Gehrig

Jimmy B — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:15:43 +0000

Goldfrapp are firmly back in the pop camp with the insanely catchy Rocket, and Kim Gehrig has delivered a suitably sexy, colourful promo which sees a vengeful Alison Goldfrapp enjoying her very own trucker’s delight. The post production required to create Alison’s road movie environment – done at Moving Picture Company – has meant its [...]

Chiddy Bang’s Opposite Of Adults by Ben Dickinson and Duncan Skiles

David Knight — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:42:57 +0000

Ben Dickinson is back, collaborating with his old Waverley Films buddy Duncan Skiles, on Chiddy Bang’s take on that famous MGMT tune. Ben and Duncan (or Dunkin) – now a team called Dinosaurus – have popped the Philly hip-hop duo’s heads on young kids bodies. It’s an enjoyable variation on a classic theme. A bit like [...]

Dan Black’s Symphonies featuring Kid Cudi by Chic & Artistic

David Knight — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:00:13 +0000

Corinne Bance and Axel D’Harcourt of Chic & Artistic’s beautifully executed video for Dan Black’s Symphonies – featuring Dan in numerous famous title sequences – first surfaced last summer. Now the song has been reworked with the additional contribution by Kid Cudi – and so has the video. Here’s the new version, with the Kid smoothly [...]

I Am Un Chien’s Hologram feat. JRF by Frank Seiler & I Am Un Chien

Jimmy B — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:30:18 +0000

It was only a matter of time before notorious website Chatroulette was featured in a music video. This promo features indie band I Am Un Chien performing live in front of a webcam transmitted on Chatroulette with responses from other webcam exhibitionists. I Am Un Chien feat. JRF Hologram Director/Producer: Frank Seiler/I Am Un Chien Special thanks: Pierre Le [...]

Scratcha DVA’s Wake Up feat. Black Da Ripper by Mr G

Jimmy B — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:30:56 +0000

New director Mr G translates the stark message of Scratcha DVA and Black Da Ripper’s Wake Up into this intense promo, perfectly capturing the spirit of the track and featuring an memorable performance by the wild-haired Ripper. “Scratcha approached me to make a video for a single from his new conceptual album,” explains Mr G – [...]

Professor Green’s Need You Tonight by Henry Scholfield

Jimmy B — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:30:42 +0000

Henry Scholfield’s gritty, realistic MVA-nominated video for Pro Green’s Upper Clapton Dance was one of the best urban videos last year. His new one for Need You Tonight is the opposite of gritty and realistic, and also great. Much more in the vein of Henry’s vids for Example, the Professor is the genial, flawed hero [...]

Late Of The Pier’s Best In The Class by Steve Glashier and Sam Potter

David Knight — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:41:15 +0000

Late Of The Pier’s girlie video for the chirpy Best In The Class, co-directed by Steve Glashier and LOTP’s Sam Potter – and created with the highly inventive, effective and super-economic method of attaching a camera to a domestic record turntable, and switching on. There are two versions of the video: the official includes material [...]

The Futureheads’ My Heartbeat Song by Aaron Bevan-Bailey

Jimmy B — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:15:42 +0000

The first single from The Futureheads’ fourth album – The Chaos, out next month – sees the band teaming up with Aaron Bevan-Bailey for the urgent pop-punk of My Heartbeat Song. It’s a fun, retro take on Saturday night TV game shows, with comedian Dave Gibson mugging madly as the Seventies-tastic gameshow host. “As soon [...]

Cottweiler Autumn/Winter 10-11 by Sarah Chatfield

David Knight — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:41:48 +0000

Fresh from enjoying a mini-retrospective at Music Loves Video at the Birds Eye View Film Festival last Saturday, and a couple of days before also featuring at the BEVFF’s Fashion Loves Film show this Thursday, Sarah Chatfield’s latest fashion film arrives. Like her YSL work with Chris Sweeney, its menswear: Cottweiler’s autumn/winter 10/11 collection. A classic [...]

The Phenomenal Hand Clap Band’s Baby by Stephen Agnew

David Knight — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:46:26 +0000

Superbly-shot and moody showcase for the soulful stylings the Phenomenal Hand Clap Band by Stephen Agnew – with a shocking final twist. Shot in upstate New York, Stephen – who has just signed to RedJam Productions – and DoP Sam Goldie have recreated that late Sixties bucolic Woodstock feel, with an added sense of the [...]

Tinashe’s Mayday by Alexander Brown

Jimmy B — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:30:15 +0000

Shot on 16mm with Steve Annis by his side on a freezing day in Brixton market, Alexander Brown continues his distinctive style – this time delving into pop – with this warm, cool promo for Tinashe. Tinashe Mayday (Island) Director: Alexander Brown Production Company: Davey Inc Producer: Gail Davey DoP: Steve Annis Representation: OBManagement Hair/Make-up: Candy Alderson Editor: Thomas Grove Carter @ Family Colourist: [...]

Foals’ Spanish Sahara by Dave Ma

Jimmy B — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:30:28 +0000

Dave Ma’s brilliant promo for Foals’ Spanish Sahara sees frontman Yannis drag a carcass across an isolated, harsh, barren landscape. Shot in the wilds of northern England in freezing temperatures, the video’s bleakness perfectly matches the stark, brooding introspection of the track. This pre-release online-only video is released as a teaser for Foals’ new album [...]

Cars & Trains’ The Sun Always Sets by Lew Baldwin

Jimmy B — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:30:35 +0000

For Cars & Trains’ The Sun Always Sets Lew Baldwin delivered this highly imaginative animation promo. Created with illustrations by David Foarde plus various ‘found objects’, (comic book pages, old childrens books and scanned items) the video is a wonderful mash-up collage with visuals strewn together with little regard for cleanliness. Cars & Trains The Sun Always [...]

Hadouken’s Mic Check by Blake Claridge

Jimmy B — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:30:39 +0000

For the second single from their album For The Masses, Yorkshire’s finest dance/punk act turned once again to Blake Claridge to capture their ruthless drive and energy on video. Featuring a relentless barrage of blinding spotlights, band performance and girl dancers – tied together by a fine edit by Thomas Grove Carter – it’s [...]

Alex Gardner’s I’m Not Mad by Ray Kay

Jimmy B — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:30:50 +0000

From the Xenomania hit factory that brought the world Girls Aloud and Mini Vega comes 18 year old Scottish singer Alex Gardner and his new single I’m Not Mad. Filmed in LA, Ray Kay delivers a clean cut, pretty promo that sees the singer roaming around, some might say narcissistically, a hall of mirrors. Alex Gardner I’m [...]

We Have Band’s Divisive by Jul & Mat

David Knight — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:45:03 +0000

Their video for You Came Out by David Wilson was a wonder to behold – now We Have Band make graphics out of themselves once again, this time collaborating with French team Jul & Mat. The three members of WHB create letters with their bodies to spell out words, that make up a key lyric [...]

Darwin Deez’ Radar Detector by Ace Norton

Jimmy B — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:30:18 +0000

For the quirky angular pop of Darwin Deez’ Radar Detector, Ace Norton turns in a similarly wild, colourful promo. “To me, thereʼs beauty in embracing the inner idiot,” Ace explains. “That’s kind of what this video is about – the creativity that spawns from boredom – the idea of taking a bunch of useless [...]

Adam Buxton defends 6Music on Channel Four News

David Knight — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:43:19 +0000

Adam Buxton, magnificent host of BUG, has now become the champion of all sensible people by challenging BBC Director General Mark Thompson to a spot of fisticuffs on live television, for having made the dimwitted decision to axe radio station 6Music. Adam was interviewed on Channel Four News last night by (Adam & Joe fan) Jon [...]

OK Go’s This Too Shall Pass by James Frost, Syyn Labs and OK Go

Jimmy B — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:30:49 +0000

Totally understanding the power of viral videos, LA alt rockers OK Go reveal yet another one-shot wonder that is causing a major stir all over the internet right now. And with good reason. For This Too Shall Pass (from their Of The Blue Color Of The Sky album) the band got together with art and [...]

‘Fireflies’ team Endeavor join LUT! for UK representation

David Knight — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:16:42 +0000

Director/producer duo Endeavor – responsible for the video for Owl City’s international number one hit Fireflies – have joined Lut! Med!a for music video representation in the UK. Endeavor are Steve Hoover and Danny Yourd, who were nominated for two Dove Awards in 2009 for best shortform video, for their clips for Toby Mac and House [...]

Vampire Weekend’s Giving Up The Gun by The Malloys

Jimmy B — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:50:00 +0000

Directed by The Malloys, this strangely random yet excellent video for the second single from Vampire Weekend’s Contra album guest stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Joe Jonas of the Jonas Brothers, Wu Tang’s RZA and Lil’ Jon. With such a stellar cast, mass airplay is virtually guaranteed and another step up the ladder for Vampire Weekend’s plans [...]

Amy Can Flyy’s Letting Go Of The Monster by Lilah Vandenburgh

David Knight — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:40:16 +0000

Amy Can Flyy, cheery up-and-coming emo-pop combo from Bournemouth, are the perhaps surprising recipients of a video by American director Lilah Vandenburgh – she of the superb award-winning short film Bitch. The boys in the band enthusiastically invade the bedroom of a stunned teenage girl – and she thinks they’re bloody annoying. But it gets increasingly [...]

Bray Music Video Festival returns in May – now open for submissions

David Knight — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:46:21 +0000

After its successful inaugural event last year, the Bray Music Video Festival returns with four days of music video-related events, screenings and awards this May, and is now open for submissions. Held in the scenic coastal town of Bray near Dublin, the Bray MVF will be held from Thursday 13th to Sunday 16th of May. The [...]

Gorillaz’ Stylo by Jamie Hewlett and Pete Candeland

Jimmy B — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:52:10 +0000

Stylo – the first single from the hotly-anticipated new Gorillaz album Plastic Beach – sees the return of the successful pairing of band co-creator Jamie Hewlett and Passion Pictures’ Pete Candeland. And for the first time most of the band appear as three-dimensional characters within a riveting live action sequence – featuring a guest appearance [...]

Fionn Regan’s Catacombs by Douglas Hart

Jimmy B — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:30:58 +0000

Fionn Regan, the Mercury-nominated Irish singer-songwriter, released his second album Shadow Of The Empire last month. For the first single Catacombs, Douglas Hart breaks out the trusty old Bolex (or possibly his Super 8mm cam) to goof around the Barbican with a bewigged Fionn and friend. At least we think its a wig. Nice vid, [...]