Three days in the Spanish desert shooting choppers chasing Porsches and motorbikes… with two videos at the end of it. It can only be Jay Kay – and for this kind of thing, you hardly need to look to anyone other than Howard Greenhalgh. Jay Kay supplied all the toys from his personal collection – [...]

Rags to riches (to rags) story of the new pop duo that have nothing whatsoever to do with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. More like this year’s wannabe Hoosiers. Harvey is more used to doing straight pop performances, but he grabs his chance to ‘break out of the box’ and try his hand at a fantasy-comedy [...]

Trudy’s new one for new pop cutie Pixie Lott is a big production number, featuring a whole new dance craze. Which sort of hurts, as she explains below. Pixie Lott Mama Do (Mercury) Prod co: Merge@Crossroads Director: Trudy Bellinger Producer: Hera King Production manager: Alicia Farren 1st AD: Barry Wasserman DoP: Denzil Armour-Brown Cameras: Sam [...]

Dodgy-haircutted dance-pop hopeful FrankMusik’s heartfelt performance vid is multi-layered. And because the ever-effervescent Tim Pope is behind it, it’s multi-layered in all sorts of ways – in real time, with backdrops and front-projection, and clever post production trickery too. And that means lots of dodgy haircuts. FrankMusik Better Off As Two (Universal Island) Prod co: [...]

Walter Robot (that’s Christopher Louie and Bill Barminski) made their very first video for a contest for Modest Mouse (they won) which was featured in the very last issue of the published-on-paper, hold-in-your-hands PROMO. They’ve only been together since ’07 but Walter Robot have since completed numerous narrative and experimental projects in live action and [...]

Crossroads Films have announced the arrival of Barnaby Roper onto their international directors’ roster for both commercials and music videos. Barnaby – a renowned photographer as well as director – has helmed videos for Razorlight, Futureheads, Moby, OKGO, Snowpatrol, The Enemy, Ed Harcourt, The Subways, Christian Falk featuring Robyn (pictured), Bryn Christopher and many more. [...]

Depeche Mode covered by The Saturdays might be a hard pill to swallow, even if it is for Comic Relief. But this will sweeten the pill considerably: a very well executed take on the classic 1940s pin-up style by Harvey Bertram-Brown and his team. And as Harvey point out below, the look is quite timely. [...]

Girls Aloud’s favourite director Trudy Bellinger does the business once more with a highly stylized set-up – this one with echoes of Jailhouse Rock. It’s pop, but just like Trudy’s vid for Sexy No No No, that palette of red and black gives the fantasy an almost noir-ish edge – accentuated by those mirrored rooms. [...]

Back with The Music following his video for Strength In Numbers, Chris Debney has retooled TRON completely in CGI for Spike, and supplies movie-quality thrills all the way. Spectacular action, with a surprisingly lyrical (and leafy) epilogue, it’s nothing less than a tour de force of 3D wizardry. Arguably Chris’s greatest achievement thus far. The [...]

Caswell Coggins has directed five videos for The Feeling and his latest, for Join With Us, is probably the best of the lot. It’s certainly the most interesting in terms of how it was made – and potentially most significant. The band are a set of quintessentially English gentlemen, wearing natty Edwardian suits, acting up [...]