Ash reach the letter V with Carnal Love, as the group’s A to Z singles series draws near to the end. The band have been releasing a single every two weeks racking up three albums worth of material in two years. For the promo the band hooked up with Alex Turvey, who delivered this suggestive [...]

The King Blues are set to release the anthemic Holiday to coincide with their appearance at the Reading Festival later this month and they’ve enlisted Adam Powell to direct the video. Keeping it real with the half-sung, half-rapped lyric, Adam unravels several moodily-lit set pieces, always echoing the grittiness of the track. The King Blues [...]

Following their collaboration on Top 5 single Watercolour, Pendulum team up once again with FND directors Mike Sharpe and Barney Steel on the blistering Witchcraft. Echoing the ferociousness and dark nature of the track, Sharpe and Steel turn in a brooding, menacing promo lit sympathetically by lensman Dan Trapp – with skilfully executed underwater footage [...]

Taken from their second album Dirt (out March 29) and coinciding with a UK tour, the Welsh rockers team up with director Tom King for Matters At All, and a mini-drama inspired by the French film He Loves Me He Loves Me Not. “The band were keen to deliver a real performance with a twist, [...]

Director Fritz Stolberg has been documenting London orchestral ensemble The Irrepressibles for the past 3 years and shot this stylish, monochrome promo for their track In Your Eyes, from the album Mirror Mirror. The Irrepressibles In Your Eyes (V2/Cooperative) Director: Fritz Stolberg Production Company: PTE Producer: Fritz Stolberg DoP: Dan Trapp Editor: Fritz Stolberg Hair/Makeup: [...]

Described by Zane Lowe on his Radio 1 show as ‘the hottest record in the world right now’, this exciting Tim Brown-directed promo is equally hot with excellent photography by Daniel Trapp. Pass Out, by south London rapper Tinie Tempah, has also been singled out for praise by Tim Westwood, Jo Wiley and Nick Grimshaw. [...]

Directing team JMD –aka John Major’s Daughters – deliver an energetic, dance-pop extravaganza for singer Bunny Lake that builds and builds to an exhilarating climax. Bunny Lake 1994 (Universal Austria) Production Company: Colonel Blimp Director: JMD Producer: Jessica Sheehan DOP: Daniel Trapp Lighting design: David Bajt, Ben Kreukniet Gaffer: Sol Saihati Art Director: Sadie Edginton [...]

New Colonel Blimp signing Tim Brown and Knucklehead director Christopher Hewitt have teamed-up to bring us some viscerally-realised armed combat, and demonstrate that War doesn’t necessarily have to be Hell. It was shot over one of those unseasonably warm October weekends in the wilds of Hackney on a D7 with the excellent Dan Trapp and [...]

An edgy underground setting combined with ethereal lighting and exquisite photography creates the perfect setting for Athlete’s Super Human Touch. The surreal meets the ordinary in this poetic and cinematic video from Dan Sully. The band deliver a performance that demonstrates not only their intricate playing, but their amazing charisma and the passionate feeling behind [...]

A fully-submerged video for the idiosyncratic Wild Beasts by Graeme Pearce at Ruth Render. In fact, for all the underwater sequences down the years, it’s hard to recall a complete performance done this way. As Graeme points out below, he was impressed by the sync-swimming sequences in Friendly Fires’ Jump In The Pool by Price [...]