Archive for December 13th, 2012

Fur Voice ‘All That’ by Pablo Maestres – now signed to A+

The new video by Spanish director Pablo Maestres – director of the award-winning video for Be Brave Benjamin’s Devil Fool – for Fur Voice’s All That is a series of beautifully-composed vignettes where the relatively normal becomes increasingly strange, to the point of becoming apocalyptic… And this is the Spanish director’s first collaboration with A+ [...]

Biffy Clyro ‘Black Chandelier’ by Big TV

Big TV get back into promoland with a blockbuster for Biffy Clyro’s Black Chandelier – hitting the net ahead of the release of the band’s new album Opposites on Jan 28th. The veteran directing duo of Andy Delaney and Monty Whitebloom deliver a darkly cinematic treat oscillating between a band performance (punctuated by nasty, black [...]

Tell us your favourite videos of 2012 – but Gangnam Style is banned…

We’re looking to publish a Promo News Readers Poll of the Best Music Videos of 2012 next week. So if you can focus for a moment, between all the Christmas parties, please compile your Top 10 favourite videos of 2012 and forward to us here at Promo News by tomorrow, December 14th. Complete your own [...]

Ilan Eshkeri and Andy Burrows ‘Light The Night’ by Stefan Parker

The official single for Channel 4′s long-awaited sequel to Raymond Briggs’s The Snowman, Light The Night – written by Andy Burrows and Ilan Eshkeri – features in the iconic flying sequence of The Snowman and The Snowdog – just as ‘Walking in the Air’ featured in the flying sequence of the original – made back [...]

The Bewitched Hands ‘The Law of Walls’ by Valentin Adam

Valentin Adam injects a dash of Barbarella, a pinch of The Clangers and a sprinkling of French surrealism into this wonderful oddity for The Bewitched Hands. Strong retro visual style is the flavour of the day and it’s got a suitable mad narrative to accompany it. The lovely art direction comes not only from Valentin [...]

We Are The Ocean ‘Young Heart’ by Nate Camponi

Nate Camponi depicts a tale of classic teenage awkwardness in this charming promo for Young Heart by Essex quartet We Are The Ocean. A teenage boy (played by Ellis Brownhill) risks the wrath of his classmates to learn a dance routine from his friend (Ami Paton) and forgets the time, much to the horror of [...]