UK singer-songwriter Gabrielle Aplin releases her cover of Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s The Power Of Love following its use in the John Lewis Christmas campaign and teams up with Alexander Brown for the video. Alexander matches the minimalist, effortless charm of the soundtrack placing Gabrielle in a vast rustic mansion, where seated at her piano, [...]
Taken from her forthcoming set The Abbey Road Sessions (October 29), Kylie Minogue releases the single Flower and elects to direct the video herself – the first time she has done so. The Flower video was filmed in Cornwall over two days in August – and Kylie gets at one with nature in this soft-focus, [...]
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 [...]
Directors Adria Petty (who oversaw Beyonce’s Countdown promo) and Alan Bibby get behind the big Coldplay and Rihanna tune Princess Of China – released to coincide with Coldplay’s British dates. Part lavish pseudo-trailer for a Kung-Fu movie and part homage to Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Bibby and Petty put singer Chris Martin and Rihanna through [...]
Shot over two days in London during some of the biggest downpours known to mankind… With a small camera crew headed up by Richard Stewart weaving around Soho with an army of paparazzi and fans behind, Christian Larson takes takes this hot new Kylie tune and squeezes every single sound out of it with a [...]
In the Valtari Mystery Film Experiment, Sigur Rós have given a dozen filmmakers the same modest budget and complete artistic freedom to create any visuals they like to accompany one of the songs from the band’s forthcoming album Valtari (out on June 4). Nearly all the 12 filmmakers working without a brief to a chosen [...]
EMI Records have announced the appointment of Oliver Hammerton as video commissioner and new member of the EMI Creative team. Oliver, who joins the company from Blink Productions where he was head of marketing, replaces Nicola Brown who has gone on to pastures new at 4Creative. Hammerton will be working with James Hackett covering all [...]
After spending 3 months to climb to No.1 in the singles chart, Coldplay release a new promo to accompany their evergreen Paradise, this time directed by Shynola. In the promo a young girl – brilliantly played by Lily-May Crosby – leaves prison, nicks a car and drives to The North to find her ‘paradise’. Arguably [...]
A badger goes to the fairground in Jean-Philippe Blunt and Thom Humphreys’ video for Baxter Dury’s Happy Soup – which won a video competition organised by the artist (sounding more like his dad all the time) and Parlophone/EMI. “The competition brief was to solely draw inspiration from the lyrics and come up with a music [...]
Don’t Think, the Chemical Brothers’ feature length concert doc directed by longtime visual collaborator Adam Smith, is released early in 2012. As the new trailer suggests, it’s completely awesome. Adam’s innovative direction of the BBC’s coverage of the Chems’ Glastonbury show this year was a mere taster of what he’s achieved with Don’t Think. Shot [...]
