Take That’s Mark Owen gets set to release his first new album in eight years, The Art Of Doing Nothing, on June 10 and teams up with James Slater for the first video – Stars. Shot in Berlin, the promo finds Owen dressed as an astronaut wandering around the city, hanging out at a TV [...]
Manchester band The 1975 get together with director Tim Mattia for this rich, monochrome performance video to partner their next single The City. Looking cool and effortless amid some amazing on-body projections, Tim captures the band as they ride a wave of critical acclaim and just before they hit the States – they’ve announced two [...]
Tabitha Denholm takes the Haim girls on a trip into the verdant hills of LA, near Pasadena, to shoot the video for Falling… Haim Falling (Polydor) Director: Tabitha Denholm Prod co: Partizan Producer: Melissa Larsen Producer UK: Brett Webb DoP: Autumn Durald Production designer: Max Orgell Editor: Bill Yukich Colourist: Ben Rogers @ glassworks Executive [...]
Shane Drake gives Lawson an epic, cinematic feel to their performance in his promo for the rousing Learn To Love Again – placing the band in a castle-like building being stormed by torch-bearing ‘warriors’… Lawson Learn to Love Again (Polydor) Director: Shane Drake Producer: Ryan Elliott Directors Agent: Marisa Garner @Marisa Garner Associates US Production [...]
Paul Caslin continues his association with Girls Aloud, directing the promo to new single Beautiful ‘Cause You Love Me. Shot in the beautiful Osterely House in West London (which, incidentally, doubles as Wayne Manor in The Dark Knight Rises), the girls smoulder away under Paul’s guidance, looking as easy on the eye as ever… “Having [...]
Following-up his cool, artfully off-the-cuff work on their Forever single, Austin Peters is back with the Los Angeles sisters Haim as they take to the basketball court to work on their ball skills in the promo for Don’t Save Me. Peters oscillates the friendly match with an enigmatic performance from the trio and squeezes in [...]
Jonas Åkerlund directs the video for The Rolling Stones’ Doom And Gloom – their 50th anniversary track – featuring Swedish actress Noomi Rapace – and it’s classic Jonas: no-holds-barred, yet peerlessly slick visuals from the director who puts the glam back into rock. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo star is definitely the star of the [...]
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, Girls Aloud are back – for a single, album and tour. First out of the trap is the single Something New and this cross-continental promo directed by Ray Kay. In a three-way production between Rock Hard, Luti Media and Nice&Polite, Ray Kay captures the girls looking none too [...]
UK pop band Lawson team up with Nick Bartleet for this slick, hi-tech promo to new single Standing In The Dark. With the band performing in a large, minimal and daunting space and a night-time cityscape acting as a very effective backdrop, Nick had this to say about the production: “Having devoted a lot of [...]
Following huge success Stateside, Ellie Goulding teams up with Floria Sigismondi for the promo to Anything Can Happen – the all-important first single from her forthcoming second album Halcyon. Shot in California, Floria delivers a surreal set-up on Malibu Beach with Ellie singing amongst huge crashing waves, strange metal orbs, a swing suspended from a [...]
