After his excellent Landshapes video documenting the wrestling community of La Paz, Ian Pons Jewell has definitely taken to Bolivia. He has now shot the video for Naughty Boy’s La La La there – and has caused something of a political furore in the process. Featuring a delightful young lad with a Chow Chow puppy, [...]
Returning with the country blues of Feel It All, KT Tunstall heads out into the Californian desert with director Isaac Ravishankara for the promo. Taken from the 37 year-old’s fourth studio album Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon (June 10), the video sees KT balancing precariously on a a cliff edge under the blazing sun… KT [...]
Austin Peters avoids the obvious Lynchian references, but certainly breaks down the fourth wall in his video for Bastille’s Laura Palmer, as the performance element of the video comes to an abrupt halt when a gang of quad bike-riding young outcasts invade the set and abduct the band’s mainman Dan Smith… While commissioner James Hackett [...]
Since spending the last two years shooting mainly commercials in New York, Los Angeles and Paris, Kinga Burza marks her return to the UK with this promo to Gabrielle Aplin’s Panic Cord. Oscillating between a performance piece and flashbacks to a past bittersweet relationship, Kinga’s promo echoes the poignancy of the lyric. “Working with Gabrielle [...]
EMI have commissioned a brand new video for Gerry & The Pacemakers’ You’ll Never Walk Alone – produced via The Fyzz Music Video – the production company that specialises in making new videos for classic songs – and directed by Andrea Jade (A.J.) Colomb. The song has been associated with Liverpool Football Club ever since [...]
Following promos for All Your Gold and Laura, Noel Paul builds on a successful working relationship with Natasha Khan – aka Bat For Lashes – with his video for her next single A Wall. Deliciously odd and highly watchable, Noel cast’s Harry Treadway (he played Steven Morris in the Joy Division movie Control) as Khan’s [...]
Emeli Sandé wrote Clown about her feelings when she was just entering the music business, trying to get signed, and dealing with music business people for the first time. She wanted the video for Clown to reflect that – and, fresh from his video for Robbie Williams’ Different, WIZ has reimagined that specific experience into [...]
In their promo for Rascals’ Fire Blaze, The AU Agency – aka directors Laurence Blake and Matilda Finn – achieve a very stylish look with this monochrome, slo-mo minimalist piece gorgeously captured by DP Stefan Yap. Rascals Fire Blaze (EMI) Directors: The AU Agency, Laurence Blake and Matilda Finn Production Company: Lut! Med!a Producer: Amalia [...]
I Am Kloot soundtrack an interesting exploration into the linked causal relationship of twins for their new single Hold Back the Night. Directors Bentley and Stafford managed to work in an inventive looped narrative into an atmospheric low budget telling of a near-fatal night-time accident, capturing an excellent image of the song’s title. All authentically [...]
Following their collaboration on the video for the haunting Laura, Bat For Lashes’ Natasha Khan teams up once more with Noel Paul of directing team That Go for All Your Gold – and the result is a mesmerising performance video which gets to the essence of the artist. It’s a holistic combination of brilliantly judged [...]
