Laura Lewis is the new head of music videos at Draw Pictures, representing the directorial roster at the company. Laura comes from Sony BMG, where she was a member of the video commissioning team led by Mike O’Keefe for three years. It is her first appointment on the production side – and she intends to [...]
Nominated in the Best Urban Video category at the MVAs for their excellent and now very huge video for Flobots’ Handlebars – 10 million hits on YouTube and counting – here’s the new thing from Dirty UK. Elephant boy and butterfly-cat journey through a Japanese painting to the end of the world (and back), for [...]
Although it’s a bit confusing, him being a Last Shadow Puppet and a Rascal (and their records being around at the same time), here is all the evidence you need that Miles Kane is not hanging on the coattails of his more famous Arctic Monkey mate. Straight-talking, atmospheric, powerful performance vid (with merest hint of [...]
As we all know, gangs are bad, the scourge of society. They are sucking in our kids and making them do awful things. The Kaiser Chiefs recognise this, and they clearly quite worried about the little bastards. James and Kate from Goodtimes illustrate the problem in their excellent video for the Kaisers’ new poptastic tune: [...]
The band with the difficult-to-remember name has another memorable video by Wade Shotter. Fujiya & Miyagi’s Ankle Injuries was the Kiwi director’s first UK commission, and his ‘dice video’ has won much acclaim since. And probably awards. Now here’s Knickerbocker, another visual treat where Wade has illustrated the song line-by-line with his version of an [...]
The Fratellis find themselves trying out their latest in the searing Spanish desert – and then a f***ing* great “F” appears in the sky. Dirty UK teamed up with Ben Unwin to create the storming performance, and the sub-plot about a couple lost in the desert. The Dirty boys no doubt handled that f***ing great [...]
It’s Friday night, and the time is right…. Three strippers (two girls, one guy) perform to The Virgins’ Private Affair – on Private Affair, a low rent NYC cable TV show so sleazy, and picture quality so exceptionally bad, it’s probably for real. It’s a good look – and of course a YouTube hit. And [...]
The Delays’ new video by MICHAEL stars Ewan Macintosh (doomed to be known for a while longer as Keith from The Office) as the overweight chap whose good intentions to pound the streets of Winchmore Hill are shattered by the garish allure of the kebab shop. But boy, does he pay for his indulgence. Junk [...]
Wade Shotter, director of the acclaimed video for Fuyija Miyagi’s Ankle Injury and co-director of the award-winning Pet Shop Boys’ Integral video has joined Draw Pictures. The New Zealander, now based in London, began as a freelance illustrator before moving into advertising at Grey Worldwide as an art director/copywriter. He started directing music videos for [...]
It’s time for another rundown of music videos currently in production or recently completed – and this is just Part One. More coming tomorrow – so get in touch very soon if you want to make sure something new is included… Agile: Ben & Jos directed Hadouken’s Crank It Up for Tim Nash at Atlantic, [...]
