It’s with great sadness that we announce that James Lebon, an influential figure in British music and fashion, and a very successful music video director in the early Nineties, has died at the age of 49. James directed numerous popular videos for the likes of Kylie Minogue, Betty Boo, PJ & Duncan (aka Ant & [...]
Yes, it’s almost here. And hopefully by this point your presents are wrapped, the turkey is thawed, and you’re happily warming your chestnuts on an open fire. Lovely. Here at Promo, we’re just off to do the Christmas shopping – loads of bargains! – fortifying ourselves as we go with a steady supply of mince [...]
Lily Allen is back, with lyrical sharpness and knowing on-camera presence fully intact. And in Nez’s video for The Fear, he counterpoints Lily’s witty satire on the world of celebrity, with an inventive, surreal production number. Lily goes directly from caravan to country pile – Wrest Park in Bedford – gliding through a platoon of [...]
No, its not Baby Please Come Home, from the greatest Christmas album of all, but Spector fans Glasvegas have their own Christmas record – and they recorded it, including Please Come Back Home, in Transylvania. As you do. Then James and Kate from Goodtimes travelled there with their Bolexes to capture them making it. With [...]
Another slick, well-shot urban vid from Emil Nava, for East London’s self-styled ‘Star In The Hood’ Tinchy Stryder. As with much of Emil’s other work, the production values belie an underwhelming budget – and the ladies are sporting some eye-popping, back-in-the-day swimwear… Tinchy Stryder ft Taio Cruz Take Me Back (Universal Island) Prod Co: Between [...]
Keith Schofield, Encyclopedia Pictura and Romain Gavras are the big winners at The antville Music Video Awards 2008. In the music video blog’s 2008 poll, Schofield was voted director of the year, and won ‘most fun video’ for The BPA feat David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal’s Toe Jam. Gavras has been voted best new director, [...]
Award-winning director of sophisticated pop videos for Lily Allen, Lykke Li, Annie, and many more, Sarah Chatfield has ventured where others fear to tread. Yes, Sarah (or “Chatters”, as she is known over at Colonel Blimp, and elsewhere) has courageously stepped up to the plate with a pre-Christmas selection of music video goodies (previously described [...]
Bryn Christopher strides purposefully through an ominously abandoned city in Barney Roper’s video for Fearless. Well, it’s either that, or Toronto is just a very quiet place indeed this time of year. And Barney certainly brings out the singer’s confident on-camera presence (to go with his eerily McAlmont-like voice). Like Sam Brown’s video for Smilin’, [...]
After their beautifully glacial version of Groundhog Day for Dimmer’s Degrees Of Existence, New Zealand directing team Special Problems’ latest is a multi-media maelstrom for Modular’s Tame Impala – a band clearly fond of Sixties garage-psychedelia. And why the hell not? We’ve seen this kind of melting pot of animation styles before but SP do [...]
It starts as a curious piece of antique stop-frame animation – by Ray Harryhausen no less – accompanying Bloc Party’s One Month Off. So not that dissimilar to the ‘videos’ introduced by Whispering Bob Harris on Old Grey Whistle Test many, many moons ago (okay, you have to be bloody ancient to remember those…) But [...]
