Ben Strebel has now signed with Somesuch & Co – as a solo director. Having recently directed the acclaimed video for Clock Opera’s Once And For All (right), Ben has now officially dissolved his directing partnership with Lewis Kyle White to direct as a solo director full-time, and is now joining Somesuch for music video [...]
US director Marc Klasfeld trades sunny California for the somewhat cooler climbs of the British winter to shoot this exhaustively edited James Blunt promo for So Far Gone (out January 3), nicely graded by James Bramford. James Blunt So Far Gone (Atlantic) Director: Marc Klasfeld Production Company: Rockhard DP: Richard Stewart Exec. Producer: Nicole Acacio [...]
The Times (well, their pop person) is already calling it International Chase & Status Day on Twitter. It’s the day that the video for Blind Faith appeared, sent the Twitterati abuzz, and triggered a wave of blissful nostalgia for the halcyon days of yesteryear. The people are really feeling it – and no wonder. Its [...]
Daniel Wolfe’s amazing sequence of videos for Plan B’s album The Defamation of Strickland Banks – already showered with honours at the UK Music Video Awards last month – reaches its fifth instalment. If you’ve seen the others (who hasn’t?) part of the joy of this one is how it is both familiar, but fills [...]
A young couple hit hard times in Alex’s Herron’s cinematic promo for Alesha Dixon’s Radio. Shot on a dusty California trailer park, Ms Dixon turns in another smouldering performance. Alesha Dixon Radio (Atlantic) Director: Alex Herron Production Company: Between The Eyes @ Pulse Producer: Marius Haugan Exec Producer: Ben Pugh Representation: OBmanagement Production Supervisor: Nicole [...]
Producer Sally Campbell, director Nick Gordon and video commissioner Tim Nash have launched a new production company, Somesuch & Co., representing several top name directors in London for commercials and music videos – including Daniel Wolfe, Keith Schofield, So Me, Jeremie Rozan, Ruben Fleischer –and Nick Gordon. Campbell and Gordon have departed from their long-term [...]
Part four of what has become an epic, and quite possibly unprecedented series of music videos for Plan B by Daniel Wolfe. After Stay Too Long, She Says and Prayin’, expectations for The Recluse could hardly be higher. But it delivers – and then turns it up another notch. This one is actually for a [...]
Ian Bonhote’s intimate promo for new Atlantic signing Rumer is a combination of a live recording and footage shot during a studio session. The old 16mm look reminiscent of 70’s music photography is both sublime and natural, perfectly suiting the delicate acoustic tones of the laidback ballad. Rumer Slow (Atlantic) Director: Ian Bonhote Production Company: [...]
Shot in Culver City, California and armed with 15 drummers, Alesha Dixon delivers an excellent performance for her hooky new single Drummer Boy. Ray Kay brings out the best in Alesha – never less than full of energy and dancing for her life in this eye-catching promo. Alesha Dixon Drummer Boy (Asylum) Director: Ray Kay [...]
After Stay Too Long and She Said the final part of Plan B/Ben Drew and Daniel Wolfe’s Strickland Banks trilogy brings it all together – and is arguably the most impressive of the lot. Following on from the courtroom drama-musical of She Said, Prayin’ finds the South London rapper slung in jail. It’s brutal and [...]
