The winners of this year’s Antville Music Video Awards have been announced – as decided in a poll of the famously partisan community of music video fans and industry folks who frequent videos.antville.org. Keith Schofield’s video for Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beck’s Heaven Can Wait has been named best music video of the year, and French [...]
I think this will have to do for 09. But this little lot, together with the unfeasible number of vids I felt compelled to include over the past few days in our Pick of Promo News for 2009 (really didn’t think it would take this long to be honest; must do it differently next year) [...]
So, almost ready to do the Christmas shopping. What day is it? Is Selfridges still open? Hic… Professor Green’s Upper Clapton Dance by Henry Scholfield Ciara’s Work by Melina Synesthesia by Terri Timely Lily Allen’s 22 by Jake Scott Franz Ferdinand’s Can’t Stop Feeling by Russell Weekes The Dead Weather’s Treat Me Like Your Mother [...]
More good stuff from the year, with more videos being added over the next couple of hours, in between regular mince pie and mulled wine breaks, and looking out for the postie who hasn’t delivered the Christmas presents I’ve bought online yet… Kid606’s Mr Wobble’s Nightmare by Joel Trussell Paolo Nutini’s Candy (director’s cut) by [...]
Welcome to Promo News’s pick of the year – at the moment, a sort of ongoing work in progress, starting from the beginning of the year. It’s bleedin’ obvious, but you can click the titles to get the original Promo articles. Feel free to make suggestions! Metronomy’s A Thing For Me by Megaforce Rex the [...]
Do not adjust your laptop. Naïve New Beaters and Toben Seymour toy with the vertical and horizontal hold. This one goes out for all you feeling a bit rocky today. Naïve New Beaters Just Another Day Director: Toben Seymour Producers: Kerri Kleiner (Kleiner Inc./Wanda) & Joshua Fruehling DoP: Michael Rizzi Editor: Meg Decker VFX: Mike [...]
A sexy, imaginative promo by Jo Apps accompanies this massive Bryan Ferry-sampling dance tune from DJ Hell that’s been burning up clubland for the past month. DJ Hell feat. Bryan Ferry U Can Dance (Gigolo) Director: Jo Apps Production Company: Partizan DoP: Sarah Piantadosi Styling: Nova Dando Make-up: Thomas DeKluyver Hair: Jesse Furlan Editor: Jo [...]
Johan Bring and David Strindberg, the Stockholm-based chaps behind the excellent Dance Steps have made a new video, and this time it’s serious. So, as the sound of Ascii.Disko’s surging electro drills into your brain, peer into the Stygian gloom of degraded video and follow a rubber-suited lady so svelte and sexy she makes Catwoman [...]
In keeping with the craze for all things Vampire, Trudy Bellinger has given Rhydian the full on gothic treatment with her latest television commercial and full length music video for ‘O Fortuna’ – or to give it’s proper title ‘Theme From Simon Cowell’. In it’s first week, the TV advert became the most viewed music [...]
A completely fresh selection of the most innovative, exciting and extraordinary examples of new music video creativity – illuminated, as always, by the uniquely insightful and comedic observations of Adam Buxton – is coming to BUG 17 on Thursday, January 21st, and Thursday, January 28th, at the BFI Southbank in London. Tickets are now on [...]
