Big TV get back into promoland with a blockbuster for Biffy Clyro’s Black Chandelier – hitting the net ahead of the release of the band’s new album Opposites on Jan 28th. The veteran directing duo of Andy Delaney and Monty Whitebloom deliver a darkly cinematic treat oscillating between a band performance (punctuated by nasty, black [...]
It’s taken a long time for these two huge figures from the history of the British pop video to work together. It was worth the wait. An absolutely blinding collaboration between Robbie Williams and WIZ for Different. Warning: it may make you cry. Robbie Williams Different (Island Records) Director: WIZ Production Company: A+ Exec Producer: [...]
Joining a roll of honour of directors that have won a special award for their longstanding achievement in the field of music video direction at the UKMVAs and the CADs before that, Jamie Thraves received the Icon Award at the UK Music Video Awards 2012 last Thursday night (November 8th) for his outstanding contribution to [...]
Following a hugely successful sabbatical with his former band, Robbie Williams gets stuck back into his solo career with the release of new single Candy and an eye-popping Joseph Kahn-directed promo. ‘Saint’ Robbie goes out of his way to protect the object of his desire with a series of clever, tongue-in-cheek and brilliantly co-ordinated stunts [...]
Filmed in a tango club in Buenos Aires, Snow Patrol become the house band in Brett Simon’s promo for new single This Isn’t Everything You Are from their forthcoming sixth album Fallen Empires (November 13th). Snow Patrol This Isn’t Everything You Are (Fiction/Polydor) Director: Brett Simon Prod co: DNA Head Of Production: Sebastian Aloi DoP: [...]
Brett Simon’s promo for Snow Patrol is a humourous take on the performance video with actor Jack Davenport in the singer’s role and Boston Legal actress Tara Summers is excellent as the ’1st AD’. Gary Lightbody (Snow Patrol frontman) doesn’t take himself too seriously either… Snow Patrol Called Out In The Dark (Polydor) Director: Brett [...]
South Wales-based director Ben Reed, who last year developed a reputation for making highly creative low budget music videos – and notched a nomination at the 2010 UK MVAs in the process – has now joined the directing roster at HSI London. Ben has directed promos for Race Horses’ Man In My Mind and Pony [...]
Shot at Dorney Rowing Lake near Eton back in July, Take That row back into action with this superb Mat Whitecross-directed promo for big ‘welcome back Robbie we missed you’ single The Flood. “The original idea for the video came from the band – they wanted to do ‘Chariots of Fire meets Forrest Gump’, a [...]
Ahead of his full-scale reunion with Take That, Robbie Williams releases a one-off single with former bandmate Gary Barlow, with the acoustic Shame. Williams took the Brokeback Mountain idea to his favourite director Vaughan Arnell before anyone else heard the track, and Arnell turns in the mischievous video the whole of the UK is talking [...]
For the big orchestral ballad from his Reality Killed The Video Star album (and Official Sports Relief single), Robbie is back with his old mucker Vaughan Arnell, who casts him as a lonely astronaut on solo voyage to a space station above Earth in this excellent video for Morning Sun. With some exquisite lighting and [...]
