For the oompa oompa throb of Riva Starr’s I Was Drunk, JMD get to grips with the club hit via this cute and ahem, strange little vignette. From JMD: “The brief was to create a video that was as fun to make as to watch. We were pretty sure pitching an idea with babies would [...]
David Wilson takes on one of the biggest stories of them all, and reworks it in remarkable fashion for dubstep pioneer Skream. It’s nothing less than the story of Adam and Eve, told in a mixture of live action and stop motion by David and a accompanying small army of artists, art directors and prop [...]
Manchester four-piece Everything Everything called upon Ross and Bugsy of OneInThree to translate the plaintive, melodic tones of new single My Kz, Ur Bf – released to coincide with numerous festival dates throughout the summer – and the directors created their own distinctive take on the frozen-time method. “There was a very specific brief from [...]
Ironically-coiffured Darwin Deez’s new single has inspired a wonderful video by Tom Kingsley. Taking the familiar video-map of a plane’s flight progress as its starting point, the video for Up In The Clouds is bursting with ideas, comedy, charm, nice performances (Darwin’s ex is a sweetheart), literary nods – and lots of effects, accomplished heroically [...]
Oh boy. After the brilliant dissection of the emptiness of modern success that was WhoMadeWho’s Keep Me In My Plane, frontman Tomas Höffting and director William Stahl turn their satirical guns to a subject even more likely to grab your attention. Tomas aka Bon Homme arrives at the office of music video commissioner Frank Grimes [...]
A hit for Don Fardon back in the 70s and used in Five Alive’s ‘dancing dodo’ tv commercial, the drinks company thought it would be exciting to make a fullscale music video of it – and what a cracker. Director Tom Kingsley: “We filmed in a nursing home in Sutton – abandoned in a hurry [...]
After his No. 1 single Pass Out, Tinie Tempah replays his successful team-up with Tim Brown for new single Frisky – and this Tim gives the British urban video an injection of high fashion promo. Tinie’s subterranean vibe gets invaded by couture-garbed girls – styled by Cynthia Lawrence-John. It’s frisky. Tinie Tempah Frisky (Parlophone) Director: [...]
JMD’s promo for Booka Shade’s trippy dance tune Bad Love is an excellent excursion into light and shade, lensed by Jamie Durand. Taken from the German electrohouse duo’s new album More – out later this month – the promo is both cinematic and alluring. Booka Shade Bad Love (Cooperative/Get Physical) Director: JMD Producer: Patrick Craig [...]
The Good Natured is Sarah McIntosh, a precociously confident one for the future, with a way with a melody and introspective lyrics, and a haircut like Ian McCulloch’s in 1981 (about ten years before she was born, presumably). Lily Smith (usually working behind the scenes at Blimp) has given Sarah and her charming song Your [...]
Comedian, writer and actor Peter Serafinowicz, whose music video directing debut for Hot Chip’s I Feel Better has become a viral smash, has now officially joined Colonel Blimp for music video representation. The writer, director, producer and performer of the award-winning Peter Serafinowicz Show, as well as appearing in numerous TV comedies and features (including [...]
