The Saturdays hit Wisteria Lane to star in their very own version of Desperate Housewives in Trudy Bellinger’s enjoyably camp and very stylish promo for their new single Gentlemen. The promo, which also sees the girls dress up as their card-playing male alter egos, is sporting a particularly vivid colourful grade… The Saturdays Gentlemen (Polydor) [...]
Marrying the powerful lyrics – a ‘metaphor of the Dresden bombing and a beautiful relationship ruined’ with strong graphic animation, Robisrob’s promo for OMD takes its lead from classic James Bond title sequences. “The rotoscoped style seemed to fit the illustrated look of OMD’s visual output and the slow-motion movements and fighting narrative were a [...]
Having made a big impression with his first ever music video for The Maccabees’ Young Lions, Peter Szewczyk has not directed one for a couple of years. But now he’s made another labour of love for the Icelandic singer ÍRiS’s Swiftly Siren, and the result is a perfectly-formed supernatural thriller. The drama is gripping from [...]
Daniel Gomes adds artistic flourishes – and a half-naked light sabre-wielding lady – throughout this darkly-lit performance piece for Jamie N Commons, contrasting with the jaunty soundtrack of his Rumble And Sway single. Jamie N Commons Rumble And Sway (KIDinaKORNER/Interscope) Director: Daniel Gomes Production Company: Good Company Producer: Alli Maxwell Director Of Photography: Alejandro Lalinde [...]
Zooey Deschanel of LA duo She & Him directs her own band’s video for the upcoming summery pop of I Could’ve Been Your Girl. With some lovely choreography from Sophie Olson, Zooey tries in vain to get the attention of her bandmate M.Ward, maybe an ad-hoc dance routine with her mates will get things going… [...]
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 – [...]
Anton Octavian has impressively channelled his felt-tip style fury into this colourful stop-motion montage for Sirsy’s Lionheart. Put together on a digital drawing tablet, Anton has managed to animate some ‘live’ performance of the band, and also render some of the king of the jungle himself. One-man production team Anton says: “I think that was [...]
Former East 17 frontman Tony Moritmer marks his debut as a solo artist with the retro flavour of Shake It Down and turns to director Antoine Dixon-Bellot for the tongue-in-cheek promo. Antoine places Mr Mortimer in a TV studio setting – think 70s show Supersonic – complete with band, dancers, over-zealous fans and the producer [...]
Copenhagen-based director Martin Garde delivers a beautifully shot, slow-burning promo for Marie Fisker’s alt pop ballad On The Beach, focusing around a heavily intertwined couple played by Gaia Brandt And Oliver Hoiness. Set in the lovers’ house, Martin explains: “We see a couple living their everyday life. Like Siamese twins they will move according to [...]
Following his stint as guest vocalist with Rudimental, powerhouse soul singer John Newman launches his solo career with Love Me Again, complete with a spellbinding Vaughan Arnell promo. Filmed at the gloriously retro Mildmay club in Stoke Newington (you half expect Ronnie Kray to swagger in at any moment), Vaughan authentically re-creates a late 60s [...]
