An interactive music video has been announced as the winner of a challenge set by the group Hurts to students at Central St Martins, the prestigious London-based art school. The competition was a collaboration between Sony Music, Central St Martins and BUG – and as well as winning a cash prize, the video by CSM [...]
The deadline for the OK Go Music Video Challenge – the music video competition organised by Saatchi & Saatchi, BUG and Talenthouse – has now extended to May 21st 2013. The competition invites up and coming filmmakers to make a video for a new OK Go track, I’m Not Through. The Grand Prize winner will [...]
Released towards the end of 2012, we’ve belatedly found the superb video for French indie band Stuck In The Sound by animators Alexis Beaumont and Rémi Godin. This is a mostly 2D-rendered tale of a very single-minded young man, determined to become the first Chinese man on the moon – and whose dream turn into [...]
Saatchi & Saatchi, in partnership with BUG Music Video and Talenthouse, has announced a new Music Video Challenge with American rock band and brilliant music video innovators OK Go – for a brand new track from their new album. The OK Go Saatchi & Saatchi Music Video Challenge 2013 has opened today (March 27th), with [...]
Tickets are now on sale for a special BUG show at the ODEON Leicester Square in London – the UK’s largest and arguably most iconic cinema – on Tuesday March 19th. Adam Buxton is bringing his popular ‘Best Of BUG’ show to the ODEON Leicester Square – including outstanding music video creativity, hilarious online nuggets, [...]
David Wilson has taken sexual exploration into the cosmic realm with his superb video for Tame Impala’s Mind Mischief. David tells Promo News all about how he created the video… • Promo: How did you come up with the idea for the video? I guess the title had something to do with it…? David: The [...]
Cyriak is back with another mind-bending masterpiece of animation – this time using prosaic mid-20th century stock footage as his raw material for After Effects supermanipulation – for Cirrus, the first single from Bonobo’s new album The North Borders, which comes out in April. And Ninja Tune have had to sit on this beauty for [...]
Up to now, Kristofer Ström has restricted his highly imaginative, darkly humourous, supremely violent music videos for hardcore dubstep tracks to drawn animation – like 16-bit’s Dinosaurs and Delta Heavy’s Call Me. No longer! Kristofer has now stepped up to CGI for his latest wubwub video extravaganza, for upcoming dubstep producer Xilent’s Boss Wave. In [...]
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 [...]
Tickets for BUG’s shows at the BFI Southbank in January 2013 are on sale now – initially to BFI members only, until next Wednesday (Dec 12th), when remaining tickets available to non-members. The first show of 2013 is a little bit different from BUG’s usual outings at the BFI. Adam Buxton will host a special [...]
