James Copeman delivers a striking video for London five-piece Vuvuvultures’ Safe Skin, centred around their photogenic singer Harmony Boucher, who delivers a strong performance – and exposes a good amount of skin herself in the process. It’s his second video for the band, following I’ll Cut You last year, and a definite step-up in the [...]
Travis singer Fran Healy turns director for this charming video heralding the return of the melancholic pop legends. Fran also stars as our patient hero, ready to put with a lot of abuse from his red-headed co-star. We had a chat to Fran to talk about his multi-tasking. PROMO: Why did you decide to go [...]
This is a stunning video for new Ministry act London Grammar’s lovely Wasting My Young Years by Bison that executes an amazing visual trick. Falling bodies are captured, and tracked by the camera in mid-fall. You might think its old school time-slice at first, but then the viewer is taken completely around a body – [...]
“The narrative of the video is fairly straight forward, it’s a look at a fleeting relationship between a girl and Yannick (Petite Noir)” explain Tim & Joe on the promo to Petit Noir’s Noirse – shot at Rowan’s Bowling Alley in London. “At the start of filming I tried not to stage too much where [...]
In a sparse office building, a group of unprepossessing office workers become mesmerized by the sounds of CSS playing Hangover on the TV, and erupt into an impromptu dance – a dance as it happens, choreographed by one of the great names of the golden age of music video… Matt Dilmore had been waiting for [...]
Shot on a shoestring budget, You Ness opted for a simple and confident performance piece in the promo for Cloud Boat’s Youthern – striking yet minimal imagery powered by some nifty moves from dancer Chantelle Gotobed… Cloud Boat Youthern (R&S Records) Director: You Ness Producer: Faye Adams Production Company: Skin Flicks DP: Aaron George Editor: [...]
LA duo Deap Vally – aka aka Lindsey Troy and Julie Edwards – team up with Jess Holzworth for the promo to new single Baby I Call Her. Allegedly meeting up at ‘needlework class’, the girls’ particular brand of lo-fi rock n roll benefits from Jess’ ‘colourful phantasmagoria of images’. Deap Vally I Call Her [...]
Franklyn Banks shoots Chapel Club in a variety of disparate locations – at the foot of a bridge, in a dense forest, in a telephone kiosk, by a tower block – in his promo for their new single Shy. “Chapel Club came to us looking for a video with a dry sense of humour” explains [...]
Director Sébastien Petretti and his regular DoP collaborator Slyvain Freyens tell the tragic tale of a rather stately wedding in this polished and wonderfully styled and dressed promo for Meridians. There’s an echo of Kubrick’s The Shining as we tail a small boy on a bike around the halls, before realising that the gun he’s [...]
Ramshackle indie folksters Kodaline set up shop in a local pub for this ad-hoc performance in Rob&Rob’s playful promo for Love Like This – with a rolling narrative of some happy slapping from various female friends. The Dublin 4-piece release their debut album In A Perfect World on June 17. Kodaline Love Like This (Sony [...]
