Ronan Keating gets back to his solo career with the release of new single Fires, aided by a Phil Griffin-directed promo. The video sees two versions of the singer running and driving to the same location – ending with the Bentley-driving Keating meeting up with his ‘other self’. Ronan Keating Fires (Polydor) Director: Phil Griffin [...]

Phil Griffin shoots singer James Morrison in a large space in this lively performance promo for the rousing Slave To The Music, complete with some tasty acrobatic choreography from Paul Roberts. James Morrison Slave To The Music (Universal) Director: Phil Griffin Producer: Leanne Stott Production Company: Partizan DP: Will Bex AD: Sam Le Page Art [...]

Phil Griffin has directed no less than three videos for James Morrison, for songs from his new album The Awakening, serviced through Partizan and produced by MVA nominee Leanne Stott. Here are two of them, for Up – featuring Jessie J – and I Won’t Let You Go. The third, for Slave, is out in [...]

For new single Shine A Light, McFly got together with Phil Griffin who called upon their mammoth fanbase to help out with the shoot at Three Mills Studios in East London. “It was different because we live web-streamed the whole day as a clue to the band’s location,” says Phil. “By keeping an eye on [...]

A sexy, pumped-up performance plus a suspenseful-romantic narrative for the bodacious Vanessa Amorosi – directed by Phil Griffin. It represents Phil’s return to UK promos, and his first team-up with producer Mikey Levelle, now head of music at Shameless, Park Village’s new music division. “I noticed Vanessa while working in Australia where she’s a massive [...]

For Boyzone’s comeback single – the first in the wake of Stephen Gately’s untimely death – Polydor employed the services of Phil Griffin to deliver a suitably sombre affair to echo the sentiment in the introspective Gave It All Away. The band release a new album in March. Boyzone Gave It All Away (Polydor) Director: [...]

Phil Griffin, former ultra-prolific purveyor of the British Pop Vid, makes his big break- through into Rock, with Kings of Leon. Walls do indeed come tumbling down. Phil shot the band in Nashville, then added the scorching VFX at Rushes back in London. The Rushes team led by Leo Weston comped the band in front [...]

Patrick Daughters leads the field in terms of nominations for the 17th American Music Video Production Association Awards, which were announced late last week. Daughters is nominated for Director of the Year, for his videos for Feist’s 1,2,3,4 and I Feel It All and Liars’ Plaster Casts Of Everything. 1,2,3,4 is also nominated for best [...]

Phil Griffin’s latest video uses Italian superstar Eros Ramazzotti’s heartfelt piano and vocal performance as the basis for a deceptively simple visual device, quite possibly based on Paul Klee’s declaration that art was taking a ‘line for a walk’. The video uses a single, black animated line to sketch the world it inhabits, telling a [...]

It’s taken a while, but finally here comes another comprehensive snapshot of what’s going down, or coming up, in music video-making right now. It’s a whole lot of things currently in production or just completed… Between the Eyes: Eran Creevy just shot Natty’s Cold Town for Tim Nash at Atlantic and also Sonny J’s Handsfree [...]