Franklyn Banks shoots Chapel Club in a variety of disparate locations – at the foot of a bridge, in a dense forest, in a telephone kiosk, by a tower block – in his promo for their new single Shy. “Chapel Club came to us looking for a video with a dry sense of humour” explains [...]
Remy Cayuela has now signed to Shameless for music video representation – and he has also just directed this dramatic, and slyly comic video for Dinosaur Pile-Up’s Derail. Set against the back-drop of the Californian desert, Remy channels Hitchcock and Tarantino with this hugely watchable tale of road-trip violence, featuring X Factor finalist Diana Vickers [...]
Mathy & Fran have applied an indie aesthetic to the proper housey dance of Russ Chimes’ Turn Me Out – and the result is a bit of a triumph. The pastel shades and portraiture of young hipsters turns out to be the starting point for all kinds of quirkiness – and in particular lots of [...]
John Grant goofs charmingly around London, from basketball court to pet shop to Turkish barber’s, in the video for Greatest Motherfucker, from new album Pale Green Ghosts, directed by Lucy Luscombe (whose short film Candy Girl was recent winner of the BFI Future Film Award). It proves to be a smart counterpoint to the autobiographical [...]
The heartbreak at the heart of Jakwob’s Fade – with vocals by Maiday – is expressed through a riveting performance by a single dancer in the video directed by exciting new talent Billy Boyd Cape. Billy is still at film school in Bournemouth, yet has already notched up a few music video commissions. For this [...]
For the jaunty alt-pop of Dog Is Dead’s Do The Right Thing, director Franklyn Banks invites you to a bit of a happening/band party full of interesting and odd characters. Banks takes us on a tour of the band’s house – actually production company Shameless’ office – with some excellent work by DP Thonke and [...]
Stereophonics frontman Kelly Jones directs his second music video in quick succession for the band, dramatizing the brief encounter at the heart of the song Indian Summer. Kelly did an impressive job with the promo for previous single In A Moment, a grim narrative in which a man attempts to end it all by extraordinary [...]
With beautiful photography from Daniel Trapp, Ross Cairns delivers this cinematic ‘international’ crime caper to partner Pure Love’s Beach Of Diamonds. With the band’s Frank and Jimmy in the lead roles – and giving very convincing performances too – Cairns contrasts high-tech violence with a palatial, sumptuous setting. “Shot in Spain over an intense and [...]
Stereophonics’ frontman Kelly Jones makes his directorial debut on this video for the band’s new single, almost twenty years into their career, and a fine job he does of it too. Taking an initially bleak, then life-affirming turn, this narrative video features a strong cast putting in some excellent performances and an interesting narrative in [...]
Three amazing kids overcome many obstacles to deliver a guitar amp from their home in the country to the Reading Festival in Ross Cairn’s delightful promo for Pure Love’s Riot Song. Beautifully shot and gorgeously cinematic in parts, executive producer Mikey Levelle had this to say about the production: “I can’t take an ounce of [...]
