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Mr. Eazi joins up with Giggs on a tube train carriage turned into a garden of Earthly delights, in Mejo Alabi&#39;s video for the piledriving London Town.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Meji Alabi

Tony Longe

JM Films

Jimi Adesanya

Conor Duffy

Afzal Robbiani

Olan Collardy

Mike Hannides

Jeremy Lawton

Sonny Horwell

Molly Blunt

Sereeta Venkanah

Reem Sadiq

Hana Homsi

Mark Meadows

Asad Naveed

Banku Music

Columbia Records

Afro-Pop

Grime

Mr Eazi ft. Giggs 'London Town' by Meji Alabi

Mr-Eazi-'London-Town-(ft.-Giggs)'-by-Meji-Alabi

Brett Simon has directed videos for all ten tracks on the new Snow Patrol album Wildness. The video for Soon was the first to be filmed, and also happens to be one of the most moving pieces of work in the medium for a long time.&nbsp;Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody wrote the song about his father, and the video is an insight into his&nbsp;family life, the emotional bonds between parents and son, and how generational responsibilities&nbsp;change over time. The brilliant use of home video footage - it begins with the moments when the teenage Gary leaves home for the first time - is the platform for the poignant comparison between then and now, and for a visible turmoil of emotions on the face of the &#39;adult&#39; Lightbody as he watches these home videos with his now elderly father.This great footage of the pair watching the videos on TV was achieved, as executive producer Matthew Clyde explains, with a real technical acuity, filming them through specially devised screens. It&nbsp;was important not only for this film, but setting a standard for all of the films that followed.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;&quot;We wanted to achieve a feeling of absolute intimacy between Gary and his Dad &ndash; a safe space, so to speak,&quot; says Clyde. &quot;Brett had been testing shooting through teleprompters, but wanted to up the ante and see both the subjects AND the home videos that were being played to them, effectively through a change of focus shifting, from the footage to the reaction to the footage.&nbsp;&quot;Portaprompt Ltd packaged a lightweight portable &lsquo;Z&rsquo; system &ndash; two monitors conjoined by a diagonal glass, each monitor reflected in each side of the glass. Both monitors were able to manually fade to black so we could dictate the opacity for shooting through. It worked a treat. We were on our way.&quot;And it was clearly a very moving experience for Gary Lightbody. He has written:&quot;soon is about my dad. three years ago he was diagnosed with dementia. i wanted to write a song that connected us both and let him know i was with him and would be always. the video we made for this (directed by brett simon) is me and my dad sitting together watching old home movies. filming it with him was one of the best days i ever spent with my dad and i&rsquo;m so grateful he got to share in the day and spend some time in my world. it meant everything to me.&quot;

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Mark Gillespie

Ironage Pictures  (hallions - Ni Service Company)

Matthew Clyde

Kate Brady

Paul Christie

Brian Livingstone

David Hawkins

Sharon Watson

Jacquelyn London

Jonny Tully

Hannah Whitehill

Carrie Sutton

Polydor

Bethany Sloan

Cathy Prior

Snow Patrol 'Soon' by Brett Simon

Snow-Patrol-'Soon'-by-Brett-Simon

Tiwa Savage heads out on a chicken shop date&nbsp;in London with Omarion and lots of friends in Meji Alabi&#39;s light-hearted romance for Get It Now.

Linah Bensadok

Rushil Choudhary

Vini Curtis

Lucy Cooper

Ots Beauty

Sam Hardy

Roc Nation

Mavin Records/roc Nation

Tiwa Savage ft Omarion 'Get It Now (remix)' by Meji Alabi

Tiwa-Savage-Ft.-Omarion-'Get-It-Now-Remix'-by-Meji-Alabi

The prolific Meji Alabi has helmed another sleek vehicle for Maleek Berry, his fifth promo for the Nigerian artist and producer. And in Pon My Mind,&nbsp;staying home becomes a very sexy proposition.With well-considered cinematography&nbsp;and art direction, Alabi nails the seductive mood, and the result is another slick pop product from the up and coming director. &nbsp;&nbsp;

Yasmin Godo

Evangelos Polychronopoulos

Jamie Denny

Berry's Room Ltd.

Maleek Berry 'Pon My Mind' by Meji Alabi

Maleek-Berry-'Pon-My-Mind'-by-Meji-Alabi

The prolific Meji Alabi buffs his growing reputation with this stylish video for Yungen&#39;s All Night. Aided by oP Stefan Yap&#39;s excellent work, the look is suitably sophisticated, and sexy.

United Kingdom

Adrine Rose

Stephen Eniraiyetan

Stefan Yap

Arran Green

Milo Brown

Jade Mortimer

Justin Rose

Andrew Salem

Ikki Dhesi

Isaac Kyerematan

Disturbing London

Pop, R&B

Yungen ft Mr Eazi 'All Night' by Meji Alabi

Yungen-'All-Night-(ft.-Mr-Eazi)'-by-Meji-Alabi

Girls Aloud alum Nadine Coyle is back, as the glamourous and very demanding Lady Boss in Sophia Ray's video for the insanely catchy Go To Work.Sophia has Nadine strutting through her office&nbsp;in her fierce red pantsuit, ruling with a rod of iron, demanding greater productivity from&nbsp;her lazy waster of a man - all with enough sass, camp and glam to keep every veteran Girls Aloud fan very happy indeed.&nbsp;

Sophia Ray

Mayling Wong

Partizan

Claire Stubbs

Jack Hobbs

Kerry Green

Matthew Emvin Taylor

Robin Webster

Brendon Harvey

Seth Crosby

Ciaran Beale

Soki Mak

Stefan Bertian

Bea Sweet

Ben Harrex

Final Cut

James Hackett

Virgin EMI

Charlie Scannell

Nadine Coyle 'Go To Work' by Sophia Ray

Nadine-Coyle-'Go-To-Work'-by-Sophia-Ray

A man has a lot to wrestle with in this stark period piece from Richard Paris Wilson for KAIS.With an incredible location on his side in the form of an Alabama ghost town, Wilson&#39;s story of guilt and religious duality in the 1920s is a harsh little narrative in a harsh little place where nobody seems to win.Dripping in symbolism, the clip is an atmospheric, sinister film normally not seen occupying country music videos.

Richard Paris Wilson

Jeremy Burgess

Wrough Writers, We Are Cowboys

Elizabeth Hagale

Markus A. Ljungberg

Joey Brown

Charles Coleman

Benjamin Rand

Jasper Lee

Lilly Sells

Somica Spratley

Bryan Fowler

Alex Macintosh

Rumble

Marcus Alexander

KAIS 'Ain't Goin' Nowhere' by Richard Paris Wilson

Kais-''ain't-Goin'-Nowhere''-by-Richard-Paris-Wilson

Meji&nbsp;Alabi presents a carefree portrait of youth in Cape Town in this new video for Zak Abel.Shot in Cape Town, South Africa over Christmas, the clip follows young people doing what they do best; getting into trouble in the pursuit of a good time. Intercut with shots of Abel sat in a car covered in graffiti with snippets of the song&#39;s lyrics, the clip is a great study of being young, bored and tenacious.

Le Fras Mouton

Ebert Steyn

David Pienaar

Lally Tshabane

Juan Le Roux

Wilhem "bubi" Furst

Lindsey Tanner

Shadeh Smith

Atlantic Records

Zak Abel 'Unstable' by Meji Alabi

Zak-Abel-'Unstable'-by-Meji-Alabi

A year on from his death, and to mark what would have been his 70th birthday on the 8th January, a new EP of David Bowie&#39;s final recordings from the Lazarus musical, and a new video for the track No Plan.The words of the song appear on a bank of TV screens in a London electrical shop, on a dark and rainy night (just like last night in fact) and begins to attract passers-by. Then the screens break up to reveal a rocket leaving Earth, heading for space.Well, the shop is called Newton Electrical...

Tom Hingston

Rob Jelley

Black Dog Films

Katie Dolan

Martin Roker at Black Dog Films

Lol Crawley

Owen Oppenheimer

The Quarry

Kate Wicks

Mark Horrobin

Tom Hingston Studio

Big Buoy

Kharmel Cochrane

Cynthia Lawrence John

Dorita Nissen

Ben Larthe

Holly Wolfers

George Nelson

Toby Spanton

Derrick Peters

Felix Pickles

Alternative

David Bowie 'No Plan' by Tom Hingston

David Bowie - No Plan

Laura Scrivano, the latest signing over at Kode Media for music video and commercial representation, recently travelled to Paris to shoot an intimate and&nbsp;emotional performance from Imelda May.Shot entirely on film, it also marks a major change in tone and image for the singer. Gone is the big rockabilly sound and equivalent colourful retro look. This is very different indeed.&nbsp;

Laura Scrivano

Jamie Whymark

Kode

Nathan Killham

Mathias Tejera

Nicola Daley

Andrew Brooke

Nick Kent

Hugo Canela

Bertrand Prevost

Pierre Corvaisier

Eva Juhle

Phil Hignett

Marshall Street Editors

Cynthia Lole

Decca Records

Imelda May ‘Call Me’ by Laura Scrivano - now signed to Kode Media

Imelda May - Call Me

Crooked Cynics&nbsp;fake it with Bastille in this deceptively simple piece of political commentary.&nbsp;Primarily featuring one charismatic speaker, we watch an impassioned international broadcast that appears jovial at first, before the cracks start to show.The more we delve into this video, the more it seems as if we&#39;re looking into a window of our dystopian near-future. Depending on your political leanings and where you are in the world, you can project your feelings directly onto the protagonist. You only have to look as far as the YouTube comments to see that (&quot;it&#39;s Trump.&nbsp;No, it&#39;s David Cameron. NO it&#39;s Angela Merkel!&quot;, etc).The use of coloured lights and various studio monitors really help to shape a purposefully confusing message, where perception and reality go head-to-head. Ah, politics...

Crooked Cynics

Jamie Clark

Hannah Shipley

My Accomplice

Charlie Goodger

Dani Castro

Harry Goodger

Damien Ansell

Rory Hardborne

Felix Coles

Gabi Malewska

Kate O'shea

Rob Deacon

Virgin Records

Alexa Haywood at Free Agent UK

Bastille 'Fake It' by Crooked Cynics

Bastille - Fake It

The Manor take South London to the South of France.It&#39;s a rare change to take a video that would normally take place on the grey, rain-sodden&nbsp;streets of South London and take it to the gorgeous pastel coloured peace and scenery of France.&nbsp;With swooping drone shots of tennis courts and marinas director Elliot Simpson certainly adds an element of grand ambition and a colour palette that you just can&#39;t get in Croydon...

Elliot Simpson

Jack Reynolds

Ryan O'Shea

Parlophone Records

The Manor 'Patrick Riviera' by Elliot Simpson

The-Manor-'Patrick-Riviera'-by-Elliot-Simpson

Best Coast&#39;s&nbsp;bittersweet powerpop ode Feeling Ok, has been paired with a video by Mathy &amp; Fran, that sees the LA duo getting up to daily routines: smoothies, cycling, gym and tennis&nbsp;for Bethany; lying down on the tennis court&nbsp;eating burgers for&nbsp;Bobb.The video gets to the heart of the serene tone of the song, with the British directing team&#39;s usual easy-on-the-eye art direction,&nbsp;conveying&nbsp;a feeling of suburban routine in which some days shine a little brighter than others...And here&#39;s something new - the video has premiered on the brand new behemoth&nbsp;on the block,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.apple.com/music/" target="_blank">Apple Music</a>.&nbsp;

Mathy & Fran

Best Coast 'Feeling Ok' by Mathy & Fran

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