BUG has announced its favourite videos of 2012, chosen by the team behind the live music video show hosted by Adam Buxton. It contains 21 music videos that featured at BUG in 2012 – a couple actually created by BUG, as part of the TV spin-off Adam Buxton’s BUG which broadcast on Sky Atlantic in [...]
There’s an alternative playlist to the diet of sex, sex, and more sex served up to the kiddies on music video television (according to the Bailey Report), in DK’s latest ‘music video blog’ on the Sight & Sound website.
After 20 years at Virgin Records, and latterly at EMI Records, Carole Burton-Fairbrother – the most experienced music video commissioner in the UK – retires from her post of Director of Video today. It’s no exaggeration to say she leaves a legacy of work including nothing less than some of the greatest videos ever made [...]
(Simone Grattarola is one of the UK music video industry’s favourite colourists. Based at Rushes, Simone has graded many hundreds of music videos. Unfortunately for him, absolutely none of these were for Whitesnake, Scorpions or Guns ‘N Roses. Because Simone’s love of heavy metal goes way back to the day, and seeing the marvellous Anvil [...]
Wot do you call it? Urban? Well, yes, let’s go for Urban. I wanted to research this and get it right. So I consulted MOBO for the definitive answer “black music born out of adversity that has evolved into mainstream popular culture – urban.” So here we have my urban playlist. I had real difficulty [...]
Price James (pictured right, that’s him in the glasses) burst onto the British music video scene last year with his highly imaginative micro-budgeted videos for the likes of Simian Mobile Disco, Lost Penguin and Shitdisco, and then signed to RSA/Black Dog. Price knows his music video stuff, so we asked him to make a playlist [...]
(After the extraordinary response to our first Guest Playlist, who could possibly follow Dan Millar? Who else would dare submit their own current video favourites to the crucible of public opinion? Malachy McAnenny, one of our finest music videos producers, that’s who. Well, he probably thinks he’s safe because he isn’t a commissioner. But then, [...]
(Sony BMG’s stylish video commissioner takes time out of his busy schedule to present a few of his current favourites. Appears he has a particular fondness for stuff that didn’t cost anything – ed) Things sure ain’t what they used to be in the music video world and is seem to get less “like it [...]
