Although the next BUG shows at the BFI Southbank are now fully booked, there is a further opportunity to catch BUG in all its glory in London this month – at the Greenwich Comedy Festival, next Sunday, September 12th. Adam Buxton presents a very special BUG, featuring some of the best music videos shown at [...]
BUG returns in September at the BFI Southbank, and tickets for the two nights of BUG 21 not already purchased by BFI members go gone on sale to the general public today. And there are also other opportunities to catch BUG in September – in another of the regular shows at the Norwich Playhouse, and [...]
Anthony Francisco Scheppard created an astonishing work a few months ago for Ape School’s Wail To God – but that, it turned out, was just for starters. For Ninja artist Blockhead he has applied his extremely trippy, apparently hand-drawn animation to create this psychedelic epic – “a post-human New York where TV and animals rule”, [...]
Ben Reed’s lovely video for The Wave Pictures’ Sweetheart is comprised entirely of words and images taken from hundreds of secondhand books. For the most part Ben has painstakingly and singlehandedly matched the lyrics to words from the books – with several additional visual flourishes – including a focus on vintage cookery book shots for [...]
It’s a viral sensation, and no wonder, for the French band Mondrian by Spanish outfit NYSU and director Jesús Hernández. It’s their third collaboration (their previous video for Love a Collision winning a prize at the French Photoclip festival last year) and Last Breakfast On Planet Surf is an extraordinary blend of sex and extreme [...]
There’s been at least one previous video for Icelandic band FM Belfast’s wonderful Underwear, which came out a couple of years ago. But then along comes this (presumably unofficial) version by a directing team known as Daniels – that’s Daniel Scheinert and Dan Kwan. It simply shows a few young people dancing – including the [...]
To celebrate their 50th anniversary, Dr Martens asked 10 artists to record their version of a cult classic track that represents the spirit of the people who’ve worn DM’s over the past 50 years. One of the songs selected was Jason Swinscoe’s project The Cinematic Orchestra’s rendition of the classic, “Lilac Wine,” made popular in [...]
Ironically-coiffured Darwin Deez’s new single has inspired a wonderful video by Tom Kingsley. Taking the familiar video-map of a plane’s flight progress as its starting point, the video for Up In The Clouds is bursting with ideas, comedy, charm, nice performances (Darwin’s ex is a sweetheart), literary nods – and lots of effects, accomplished heroically [...]
In Peter Szewczyk’s delightful video for the Maccabees’ Young Lions, a boy finds solace from a tough world with the help of a beautiful pet moth. When his cruel father intervenes both boy and insect escape in separate journeys in search of sanctuary. Peter Szewczyk has a background in CG – having worked at Dreamworks, [...]
The BBC Norfolk Music Video Festival – described as the UK’s only dedicated music video festival – kicks off tomorrow with a special presentation of BUG at The Forum in Norwich, home to Fusion, the largest digital screen in Europe. Organised by BBC Voices and BBC Norfolk Introducing – part of the national BBC Introducing [...]
