Alexander Brown delivers this highly atmospheric, driving and tasteful video for Waylayers’ SOS that captures night-time London in a cool and original way. Alexander harnesses the sweet electronic atmospherics within the soundtrack – powered by beautiful work from DP Sam Care. Alexander says: “When the band approached me to do a follow up video to [...]

Alexander Brown teams up with Jamie Cullum to make this perfectly realised one shot promo for his new single Everything You Didn’t Do. Shot in a huge empty space, Alexander’s lively promo focuses on the performance where Jamie and his band give it their all. Alexander on shooting ‘Everything You Didn’t Do’ “What I really [...]

UK singer-songwriter Gabrielle Aplin releases her cover of Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s The Power Of Love following its use in the John Lewis Christmas campaign and teams up with Alexander Brown for the video. Alexander matches the minimalist, effortless charm of the soundtrack placing Gabrielle in a vast rustic mansion, where seated at her piano, [...]

Following a year building an online following (two million hits on his Youtube channel), Oxford-born singer-songwriter Lewis Watson joins forces with Alexander Brown for this atmospheric promo to Sink Or Swim – from his forthcoming EP Another Four Sad Songs. Matching the melancholy of the lyric, Alexander shoots the 19 year old braving the hideous [...]

Accompanied by a roomful of floating ball-bearings that have broken loose from an executive toy, Waylayers singer Harry Lee gives a great emotionless, dead-pan performance of Magnets in Alexander Brown’s highy watchable promo. Waylayers Magnets (Insomnia Records) Director: Alexander Brown Production Company: Nice&Polite Producer: Gail Mosley Director of Photography: Ben Todd Editor: Thomas Grove Carter [...]

For Liam Bailey’s summery, lilting It’s Not The Same, Alexander Brown shoots the singer as he picks up his guitar and heads for the beach in this beautiful, hazy promo shot in Cuba. Liam Bailey It’s Not The Same (Polydor) Director: Alexander Brown Producer: Gail Davey Production Company: Davey Inc Rep: OBmanagement DoP: Sara Deane [...]

Drifting in and out of focus and in perfect sync with the minimalist, heavily introspective music, Alexander Brown’s promo for critically-acclaimed James Blake is hypnotic. Capturing the left-field mood and with some double imagery at play for the harmony, the promo and the soundtrack become seamless. James Blake The Wilhelm Scream (Polydor) Director: Alexander Brown [...]

Alexander Brown prefectly recreates the loose, rousing feel of Pete Lawrie’s Fall Into The River with this ‘as live’ performance promo complete with boozy, small club mock-up. Pete Lawrie Fall Into The River (Island) Director: Alexander Brown Production Company: Davey Inc Representation: OBManagement Producer: Gail Davey DP: Steve Annis Art Director: Catherine Willis Stylist: Sophie [...]

Following All That We Keep, Alexander Brown’s second video for folk-popster Pete Lawrie perfectly matches the acoustic sing-a-long of In The End with a contrast of a lightbulb-charged studio shoot and a series of evocative outdoor scenes. With the song’s lyrics etched imaginatively over images of old ships, lighthouses and kids playing in the street, [...]

Shot earlier this month at the Rivoli Ballroom and in and around Brockley South-East London, Alexander Brown directs this wonderfully provincial, retro and very British promo for Carl Barat’s Run With The Boys. There’s nothing like a night out with the lads, eh… Carl Barat Run With The Boys (PIAS) Director: Alexander Brown Production Company: [...]