BBC Music Video Festival kicks off over the UK

The BBC Music Video Festival 2012 has begun. Showcasing the best music videos of the year alongside some of the greatest new music and filmmaking talent. You can check out videos on BBC Big Screens over the UK and also all day on Fusion, at The Forum in Norwich. You can find out playlists, info [...]

BBC Music Video Festival 2012: Dam Mantle, Dave Frazer, Nasty P

Here’s another batch of entries to the BBC Music Video Festival, showcasing some of the regional submissions from around the UK to the Festival that will commence next month and be showing new music video work on BBC Big Screens in cities around the land of Team GB. This week we’re heading north of the [...]

BBC Radio 1XTRA ‘Hoodie’ and ‘Terrapin’ by UNKNOWN

Completed last month by the talented UNKNOWN for Auntie Beeb is Hoodie – a cool promo for BBC’s Radio 1XTRA that’s definitely going to appeal to the faithful – featuring DJ Sarah Jane & Twin and rapper Benny Banks. And now their second 1XTRA promo, Terrapin – featuring JME and DJs Charlie Sloth & MistaJam [...]

BBC Music Video Festival 2012 open for entries

The BBC Music Video Festival 2012 is now open for submissions. Now in its third year in its current form, the BBC Music Video Festival showcases new and emerging music acts and video director talent from around the UK and the world. The Festival is requesting music videos from artists and filmmakers which, if selected, [...]

Luther trailer by Caswell Coggins

Caswell Coggins has been missing from music videos for a while to concentrate on documentary work, and things like this – the new trailer for the forthcoming second season of BBC cop show Luther, starring Idris Elba. Idris as Luther un-destroys his office, and returns to a state of relative serenity, all to the strains [...]

BBC Radio 6’s Building 6Music by Dom Bridges

The new promo for digital station BBC 6 Music directed by Dom Bridges entertainingly features Jarvis, Lauren, Huey, Lamacq, Cerys and new recruits Radcliffe and Maconie who are ‘building 6Music’ from an unfeasible array of listening devices to create their own version of Broadcasting House. Very impressive it is too. The powers at the BBC [...]

A History of the World in 100 Objects: two films by WIZ

A trailer for the new BBC Radio 4 series A History of the World in 100 Objects appeared on BBC1 last Sunday straight after the exquisitely-shot Wallander – and was even more cinematic and mesmerizing than the show that preceded it. What’s going on? It’s WIZ. He made this stunning film, Horse, narrated by actor [...]

The King Blues vs Lord Byron vs Corin Hardy

In Corin Hardy’s film for the current BBC Poetry Season, the visceral power of rock meets the beauty and grace of classic verse. Punkers The King Blues are at the piledriving climax of their live show when frontman Itch somehow finds a moment of quiet reflection to recite Lord Byron’s So We’ll Go No More [...]