Luke Monaghan returns to music promos with this raw, dynamic and cinematic piece for UK dance wizards Disclosure’s White Noise, beautifully shot in several derelict buildings in Detroit. Scouted from the city streets, protagonist Kafani’s brilliant expressive dance moves blend seamlessly with Luke’s sharp direction – forming a unique accompaniment to the pounding soundtrack… Disclosure [...]
Two lovers are reunited in the afterlife in Director X’s powerful and emotional short film drama for Angel’s The World. Preceded by a Youtube teaser last month, the promo features an intense movie-like narrative – shot in London by the Canadian director. And Waterloo Road actress Zara Abrahams and the UK singer turn in convincing performances [...]
Following a hugely successful sabbatical with his former band, Robbie Williams gets stuck back into his solo career with the release of new single Candy and an eye-popping Joseph Kahn-directed promo. ‘Saint’ Robbie goes out of his way to protect the object of his desire with a series of clever, tongue-in-cheek and brilliantly co-ordinated stunts [...]
Taking isolated multitrack segments from the Killers’ track Runaways and focusing in turn on each member of the band – intercut with cinematic shots of their native Nevada – Giorgio Testi delivers a series of four teasers for the Las Vegas rockers’ fourth studio album Battle Born. “The idea was to create four separate short [...]
Goyte – aka Belgian musician Wouter De Backer – and Kimbra get naked and blend into the backdrop via some nifty body art by Emma Hack in the promo for current No. 1 single Somebody That I Used To Know. The promo has had over 70 million hits on youtube… Goyte Somebody That I Used [...]
Clock Opera look like being a big band in 2012, and the stirring Once And For All gets an emotional and affecting narrative video directed by Ben Strebel – featuring cult actor Dudley Sutton (he of Lovejoy, Orlando – and The Leather Boys). It’s a parable about seizing the day, and how it’s even more [...]
Ryan Hope’s video for Bombay Bicycle Club’s Leave It manages to span the rollercoaster of human life, from birth to death and everything in between, in what looks like a single rotating shot. A set of chairs in a working men’s club, arranged in a circle, are occupied first by the band, and then a [...]
Ewan Jones Morris & Casey Raymond’s intriguing and wacky one-shot video for DJ Shadow’s Scale It Back comes to you direct from deep within the recesses of the mind of Ben Pridmore – the Memory Man. “The idea to work with Ben came from napping on the sofa and half watching one of the documentaries [...]
A straight-ahead rock ‘n roll performance vid for Tribes’ When My Day Comes directed by Mickey Voak and Dan White – their third video for the band after We Were Children and Sappho. Tribes When My Day Comes (Island) Prod co: Galleon London Directors: Mickey Voak and Dan White Executive Producer: Hamish Harris Producers: Dulcie [...]
Florence Welch bursts back, all guns blazing, with Shake It Out, and Dawn Shadforth’s video pulls out the stops to reflect its wrought emotion, with a sumptuous period mystery and Florence as a beautifully-attired Victorian heroine, seemingly harbouring multiple personalities. It was shot in Eltham Palace, with Ed Rutherford behind the camera, styling by Aldene [...]
