Hot Rats’ Damaged Goods by Luke Losey
Tuesday, 9. June 2009 - 10:27 am
Many moons ago Luke Losey co-directed one of the great videos of the Nineties: Orbital’s The Box.
Luke has also directed idiosyncratic, richly detailed vids for William Orbit, Mercury Rev and (again) Orbital, and now he’s back with his first video for ages, for Supergrass pair Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey’s new side project Hot Rats, and their faithful cover of Gang Of Four’s Damaged Goods.
Shot at Wiltons music hall in Shadwell, Bill Sykes-lookalike Gaz, and Danny, the heavily-disguised fortune teller, are players in a characteristically old-world Luke Losey universe. And Gaz is looking for answers from that crystal ball…
Hot Rats
Damaged Goods
Prod co: Coral Bark Productions
Director: Luke Losey
Producers: Liam Garvo, James Heath
DoP: Serge Teulon
1st AD: Truan Munroe
Production Designer: Rosy Thomas
Art director: Natalie O’Connor
Make-up & Hair Mikaela Honeywell
Editor: Sam Bould
Telecine: Richard Fearon at Prime Focus
Post: Big Buoy
