Archive for November 1st, 2012

Charlie White and Boom Bip ‘Music For Sleeping Children: Melissa and Mikayla’ by Molly Schiot

Music For Sleeping Children is a collaboration between producer Boom Bip (Bryan Hollon) and artist Charlie White in which the angst-ridden outpourings of young teenage girls are scored to electro-pop beats. The result is one of the most intriguing conceptual music projects this year – and there’s a thought-provoking video, each bearing the recognisable imprint [...]

Rousseau ‘In Good Company’ by Francis Wallis

Francis Wallis gets romantic about youth and the countryside for Rousseau’s In Good Company, with the band and their friends living the bucolic dream. Beautifully shot in Wales, it covers the best things the British countryside has to offer – nice walks, dogs, cider, shooting and motorbikes. Francis said: “What I really wanted to do [...]

Rita Ora ‘Shine Ya Light’ by Emil Nava

In his second video for the UK’s brightest and newest chart-topper, Emil Nava takes Rita Ora back to her roots … all the way to Pristina Kosovo. In the promo for her new single Shine Ya Light, Nava captures Rita in full electrifying performance mode as she returns to the streets of her homeland surrounded [...]

Sam Lee ‘The Ballad Of George Collins’ by Andrew Steggall

Nominated for the Mercury Prize 2012 (being held tonight, November 1st) for his album Ground Of Its Own, Sam Lee may be an outsider for the big prize, but his credentials as a modern interpreter of traditional English folk music is impressively showcased by this imaginative and theatrical visual interpretation of The Ballad Of George [...]

UK Music Video Awards 2012 UPDATE – one week to go to the UKMVAs!

Preparations are now reaching the final stages for this year’s UK Music Video Awards and aftershow party – to be held in central London just one week from today (Nov 1st)! The UK Music Video Awards 2012 takes place at the prestigious Empire cinema in Leicester Square in London’s West End next Thursday, November 8th [...]

K. Koke ft Maverick Sabre ‘Turn Back’ by Emil Nava

Following the life of a young girl growing up on a London council estate, Emil Nava delivers a gritty and stylised video for K Koke’s urban ballad Turn Back. With heartfelt performances from both K Koke and guest vocalist Maverick Sabre, Nava intercuts the action with a hard-hitting narrative of the hardships and moral dilemmas [...]

Diana Rozz ‘Walk On By’ by Sasha Rainbow

Diana Rozz, an all-girl trio from Wellington, join forces with Sasha Rainbow for this hugely watchable gritty, androgynous, lo-fi excursion for the old skool punknoize of Walk On By. Diana Rozz Walk On By (Muzai Records) Director: Sasha Rainbow Production Company: Nice&Polite Producer: Gemma Syme Director of Photography: Sasha Rainbow Editor/Grade: Gemma Syme