Atoms For Peace ‘Ingenue’ by Garth Jennings

Thom Yorke, Garth Jennings and Wayne McGregor created a landmark clip for Radiohead’s Lotus Flower a couple of years ago. And now the gang is back together, in the services of side project Atoms For Peace – with the important addition of Fukiko Takase, Thom’s dance partner and doppelganger. And why not? McGregor is a [...]

Guitar Wolf ‘Summertime Blues’ (BUG TV) by Garth Jennings

As featured in Adam Buxton’s BUG, episode 1 (09-07-12) on Sky Atlantic, it’s Garth Jennings and Adam Buxton’s version of the insane and unhinged version of Eddie Cochran’s Summertime Blues by Japanese punk kings Guitar Wolf (who Adam met once on a trip to Japan, and now describes them as a combination of Rammstein and [...]

BUG comes to TV as ‘Adam Buxton’s Bug’ premieres tonight on Sky Atlantic

Adam Buxton’s Bug – the TV spin-off of the cult live event celebrating music videos – premieres tonight (July 9th) at 9.30pm on Sky Atlantic HD. A series of eight half hour shows will see many of the music videos featured in the live show being featured, together with the hilarious genuine YouTube comments about [...]

BUG Radiohead special – greatest videos, rarities and special guests goes down a storm in Leicester Square

BUG presented BUG: Radiohead on Tuesday night (November 29th) – a special show dedicated to one of the world’s greatest and best-loved rock bands, at the ODEON Leicester Square in London. It was BUG’s biggest ever show – and quite an occasion, including appearances from bandmembers Jonny Greenwood and Colin Greenwood, and Hammer & Tongs’ [...]

Radiohead’s Lotus Flower – the spoofs have already begun…

Thom Yorke’s unapologetic body-waggling in Garth Jennings’s video for Lotus Flower has, in the space of three days, inspired a few spin-offs already, including these, both from Big Balls. Above it’s the ‘Deleted Scenes’ they didn’t want you to see…. and then below, devastatingly conclusive evidence that Thom could really cut it in a proper [...]

Radiohead’s Lotus Flower by Garth Jennings

See Thom Yorke transform into the ‘King Of Limbs’ (the title of their new album) with a helping hand from choreographer Wayne McGregor in this very tasty Garth Jennings promo for new single Lotus Flower. Quite a blinding performance from Mr Yorke it has to be said… Radiohead Lotus Flower Director: Garth Jennings Prod co: [...]

The perfect Christmas gift: The Hammer & Tongs Collection

Hammer & Tongs’s long-awaited DVD collection of their legendary music videos features all the classics for Blur, Fatboy Slim, Supergrass, Pulp, Beck, REM, Badly Drawn Boy, Vampire Weekend and many more. There are H&T’s short films, and delightful ‘home movie’ footage of the Tongs’ Garth Jennings, Nick Goldsmith and (when he was part of the [...]

Vampire Weekend’s Cousins by Garth Jennings

After A-Punk a while ago, here’s another deceptively simple, beautifully conceptual Vampire Weekend performance video by Garth Jennings. And like A-Punk it just gets more enjoyable and rewarding each time you watch it. There’s no framerate-manipulation this time. The band really did go that fast, up and down the track – powered by four grips [...]

Hammer & Tongs’ Son Of Rambow – in two days!

When you consider the brilliant, rampant imagination and sheer entertainment value of their classic videos – you know the ones: Blur’s Coffee & TV, Supergrass’s Pumping On Your Stereo, Fatboy Slim’s Right Here Right Now, and many more – this really is something worth waiting for. It’s been years in the making, and rapturously received [...]

NEW/BUG 04: Radiohead by Adam Buxton & Garth Jennings

BUG is a regular event of excellent creativity in music videos at the BFI Southbank, but even if the next show featured videos made for losing finalists of X Factor, it would still be worth attending because of its host, Adam Buxton. As half of Adam & Joe (his TV show with Joe Cornish in [...]