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Andrew Potter

Fred Rowson reunites with Olly Alexander and Years &amp; Years in a thoroughly joyful new video for single Starstruck - choreographed by Sherrie Silver.It's the band's first release since Alexander’s breakthrough acting role&nbsp;in Russell T Davies’s TV drama&nbsp;It’s A Sin, and marks the return of Rowson to music video after a busy year making commercials and hunkering down to write his first feature film. And the result of their reunion is a delight - an outpouring of impish energy from the band's frontman, who utilises his on-screen charisma to inhabit not one but two versions of himself.Shot in the Hotel Café Royal in Piccadilly Circus in London - a gorgeously luxurious location made available as a result of the pandemic - the pyjama and dressing gown-clad Alexander looks uncertainly into one of its many ornate mirrors, and then finds himself facing a seriously adoring fan - his own döppelgänger. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]The entire video is the interplay between the two Ollys, masterfully shot&nbsp;and made cartoonishly entertaining by the choreography by Sherrie Silver, the Rwandan-born choreographer and dancer who shot to fame when she worked with Donald Glover on the video for Chilish Gambino's&nbsp;This Is America, and other projects.DoP&nbsp;Jaime Feliu-Torres makes full use of the lavish location, with silky-smooth Steadicam work throughout - especially in challenging scenarios, including multiple chase scenes - and the art direction and styling feel perfectly fitting, with an opulent yet contemporary spin.&nbsp;In short, this is a wonderfully charming comeback for Alexander, who has the zesty energy of a newcomer, balanced with the experience of an industry pro - and also for Fred Rowson, quite possibly&nbsp;the&nbsp;UK's best dressed music video director...FRED ROWSON:"Knowing that It's A Sin was soon to be released, but not knowing the massive impact it would have, Olly was clearly keen to create something totally different to what came before. Like the music, it represents all the things that we missed in 2020 - colour, joy, energy, comedy.[imgtoken data:2]<blockquote>It represents all the things that we missed in 2020 - colour, joy, energy, comedy.</blockquote>"This is light years away from the world that we created for Palo Santo on the last album, and all the better for it. We assembled an incredible team to bring Olly's vision to life, and I had my own starstruck moment when choreographer Sherrie Silver came on board. I've been desperate to work with her for years, and she did not disappoint; her wild, inspired ideas elevated the concept at every turn. She, Olly and I became like a three-headed monster, all adding jokes, dance moves and suggestions for shots."This kind of atmosphere attracts the best crew, and we were blessed with an amazing team, who pulled this off on a crazily tight schedule. Huge love to everyone at Blink, and on the production, who gave us the means to create something wild. I can't wait to see where Years &amp; Years go next."[imgtoken data:3]<blockquote>Sherrie, Olly and I became like a three-headed monster...</blockquote>LAURA NORTHOVER (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER):"Fred is a joy to work with. He’s a meticulous planner and fosters a uniquely collaborative environment when making a music video."I’m super pleased he’s back in the music video game because I missed him when he was annoyingly focussed on a feature and all of those commercials."

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Fred Rowson

Rosie Brear

Blink

Paul Weston

Rachel Bashford

Jaime Feliu-torres

Anil Duru

Julian White

Jennifer Gardiner

Nicholas Royal

Shiori Takahashi

Porsche Poon

Samuel Marr

Richard Fearon

Black Kite Studios

Tamara Mennell

Laura Northover

Polydor

Sherrie Silver

Richard Lewis

Marti Guiver

Hiroshi Matsushita

Years & Years 'Starstruck' by Fred Rowson

Years-And-Years-'Starstruck'-by-Fred-Rowson

Northwestern folklore and criminal romance collide in this cryptic and seductive video by Kes Glozier.“They say an ancient law still exists whereby you can kill a Welshman. But it has to be within the walls of Chester, after midnight, with a crossbow. I think.” What an intriguing introduction. Bust This Town was inspired by a real medieval by-law - the product of frosty cross-border relations between the Welsh and English.&nbsp;There is no record that this law was ever repealed. The video follows two lovers on the run, who build&nbsp;a love nest in a derelict manor house.&nbsp;Making oblique references to the Chester by-law, Glozier creates a tense, fatalistic atmosphere around the romance, skilfully stretching this historical detail into an analogy for disharmony in a relationship.Glozier plays a similar game here as in his fantastic video for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2019/08/06/hak-baker-lad-kes-glozier/60118">Lad by Hak Baker</a>. In this tense piece of realism, the director took an approach comparable to Lynne Ramsay's films,&nbsp;teasing inevitable violence with tiny gestures and character details.The video also has the remarkable distinction of being photographed by Seamus McGarvey, BSC. The acclaimed DoP is a go-to for tragedy. Having shot We Need to Talk About Kevin&nbsp;(Lynne Ramsay),&nbsp;Atonement and&nbsp;Anna Karenina (Joe Wright), McGarvey is a master communicator of volatile atmospheres and dangerous temperaments.“It’s my own version of Bonnie and Clyde," says Glozier.&nbsp;"A story of love and madness, inspired by my own personal love and madness.”

Kes Glozier

LEZ Creative

Mary Calderwood

Seamus McGarvey

Chris Hayden

Kiloren Mclaren

Tom Gates

Afra Zamara

Nadia Dahan

Georgia Hope

Meg Thorne

Cut+Run

Sam Seager

Rock

Indie Rock

Stereophonics 'Bust This Town' by Kes Glozier

Stereophonics-'Bust-This-Town'-by-Kes-Glozier

Brothers Loral and Ronnel Raphael &ndash; aka Sons of Raphael &ndash; deliver a fully-fledged modern epic in the shape of new single A&nbsp;Nation of Bloodsuckers.&nbsp;The video, directed by Loral with cinematography by&nbsp;Manuel Alberto&nbsp;Claro&nbsp;(Melancholia, Nymphomaniac), invites us to inhabit multiple-overwhelming&nbsp;realities.&ldquo;Here is a refusal to see violence and tenderness as binary,&nbsp;but painfully and tightly interwoven - just like the God we worship who could be both&nbsp;a warrior as well as a&nbsp;nurturing mother,&quot; explain the brothers Raphael.&nbsp;&quot;Exploring the paradox of human faith, Sons of Raphael give us an unusual invitation&nbsp;to break out of false self-hood, with a yearning for authenticity.&quot;

Loral Raphael

Joel Spencer

Manuel Alberto Claro

Malte Huebner

Darren Ladbury 

Yan Murawaski

Matt King

Natsumi Ebiko

Anete Salinieka

Sam Allen

Speade

Jack McGinity

Time Based Arts

Markus Lundqvist

Because Music

Sons Of Raphael 'A Nation Of Bloodsuckers' by Loral Raphael 

Sons of Raphael | A Nation of Bloodsuckers

Bradley&amp;Pablo reunite with Charli XCX for the sultry R&amp;B groove of 5 In The Morning, making a very sexy video in a rather unlikely setting.Shot in a vast, deserted industrial warehouse at night, the duo capture Charli as a girl ready to go &quot;all in&quot;, with killer choreo, epic lighting and dramatic camerawork (provided by the redoubtable Will Bex).

Bradley&Pablo

Oliver Martin

Maurizio Von Trapp

Pulse Films

Will Bex

Peter Bishop

Nicola Sheppard

Atlantic Records

Rik Green

Chris Roebuck

TenThree

Charli XCX '5 In The Morning' by Bradley&Pablo

Charli-Xcx-'5-In-The-Morning'-by-Bradley&pablo

Holly Blakey explores the shifting balance of relationships and the misplacement of power in her video for rising artist Moss Kena.The director and choreographer blends an abstract psychological drama into a dance performance, with her lead performer (Breanna Box) palpably in the aftermath of a traumatic end-of-relationship event, and looking to find herself again.&quot;Ambiguity, and the idea that we never find where power truly lies, is at the heart of this new video,&quot; says Holly Blakey. &quot;Power moves on and on &ndash; nobody knows where it stops or where it began.&rdquo;The track Square One marks the beginning of mysterious artist Kena&rsquo;s more public career having come up through the Soundcloud underground. The song that is visualised by this strong performance as Kena explains: &quot;It is really about trying to learn from your mistakes. This track marks the start of my next chapter.&quot;

Holly Blakey

Ann Evelin Lawford

Karl Hui

Chloe Hardwood

Sonny Horwell

Bon Walsh

Connie Rose

Annabelle Phillips

Cayla Kim

Ana Fry

Make-up Assistant- Andrew Denton

Jo Lewandowska

Elizabeth Doonan

Sony Music

James Burgess

Alternative

Moss Kena 'Square One' by Holly Blakey

Pop video specialist&nbsp;Carly Cussen has put together this colourful performance video for KDA&#39;s Turn The Music Louder, featuring Tinie Tempah and Katy B.&nbsp;With a circular track revolving around four retro stage setups, the&nbsp;clip takes us through 30&#39;s Mondrian,&nbsp;60&#39;s and 70&#39;s glamour, and zany&nbsp;80&#39;s&nbsp;graphics, providing colourful backdrops for the&nbsp;heavily styled&nbsp;artists and performers (just check out the&nbsp;glam squad in the credits!)&nbsp;to do their thing. &nbsp;

Carly Cussen

Antoine Dixon-Bellot

Alexa Haywood

Angelica Polonczyk

Ben Keswick

Rosie Owens

Jake Scott

Ahmet Hussein

Tom North

Sam Harding

Lee Parfitt

Paul Sheppard

Terry Rob

Ed Riley

Amy Lord

Jess Ciantor

Supple Nam

Grace Snell

Kirsty Hanlon

Big Buoy

Smoke & Mirrors

Julia Frost

Ministry of Sound

Dan Moran

Smoke and Mirrors

East London Studios

KDA feat. Tinie Tempah, Katy B 'Turn The Music Louder' by Carly Cussen

KDA - Turn The Music Louder (Rumble) ft. Tinie Tempah, Katy B

Peaking interest with quite the&nbsp;captivating first sequence, In/Out (now a trio as&nbsp;Rina Yang has joined&nbsp;Thom Humphreys and&nbsp;Jean-Philippe Blunt in the collective)&nbsp;bid the viewer to work backwards in&nbsp;assigning meaning out of narrative&nbsp;bits, cut to the stirring confessional&nbsp;lyrics of&nbsp;Spector&#39;s track Bad Boyfriend.Featuring&nbsp;an emotive&nbsp;performance from the bassist of the band Thomas Shickle, it follows a bitter,&nbsp;brainteasing&nbsp;story of betrayal, confirming that humans are, indeed, very&nbsp;complicated creatures...

In/Out

Rina Yang

Natalie Arnett

Untitled

Alex Reynolds

Joseph Bicknell

Carrie Sutton

Spector 'Bad Boyfriend' by In/Out

The Wombats are back with new track&nbsp;Greek Tragedy - and a video by Finn Keenan with an unexpected, gut-wrenching punch.&nbsp;Finn focusses on a fan with an unhealthy devotion to the Liverpudlian trio. And there&#39;s initially no clue that she also has a vengeful streak worthy of (Greek tragedy reference alert) an Agamemnon or&nbsp;Medea.But no Greek heroine ever made such creatively violent use of a screwdriver or a toaster...

Finn Keenan

Rob Jelley

Neil Edson

Keane Shaw

Richard Stewart

Alexandra Voikou

Amy Brock Morgan

Tony Schultz

Mihalis Margaritis

Mark Kozlowski

Alex Parkinson

Ashley Cooke

Will Rae Smith

Grant Sandy Phillips

Dan Martin

Emma Slater

Sophie Rowatt

Cassi Brookes

Elliot Scott

Rory Gordon

The Wombats 'Greek Tragedy' by Finn Keenan

Charlotte Rutherford, included in our list of the <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/playlists/best-2014-top-20-new-directors" target="_blank">top new directors of 2014</a>, ended last year on a flourish of Perfume Genius. She followed up her video for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2014/09/20/perfume-genius-grid-charlotte-rutherford" target="_blank">Grid</a> with another extravaganza of gorgeous&nbsp;lo-fi surrealism for PG&#39;s Fool, a video made for the Urban Outfitters Music Video Series.Mike Hadreas aka Perfume Genius dons his gold rollerskates before embarking on&nbsp;logic-defying, archly humourous&nbsp;scenarios at a typical British cornershop and a local dance studio - also involving his dancers in fetching bird costumes,&nbsp;and rollerskating backing singers.There&#39;s more about the shoot, and lots of on-set pics, on the <a href="http://blog.urbanoutfitters.com/blog/perfume_genius?cm_re=BLOG-_-POSITION_3-_-perfume_genius" target="_blank">Urban Outfitters blog</a>.&nbsp;

Charlotte Rutherford

Bob Platt-Higgins

Matthew Emvin Taylor

Lucas Demgenski

Sam Riley

Emilio Schlappi

Dave Kirkwood

Joe Fitz-gerald

Alain Bety

Soki Mak

Holly Silius

Billy Cullum

Jason Wallis

Electric Theatre Collective

Sophie Alonzi

Gabe Spierer

Perfume Genius 'Fool' by Charlotte Rutherford

Perfume Genius – "Fool" (Official Video)

Joe Connor harnesses the live power and full-on energy of Don Broco as he explores the themes expressed within the lyric of their blistering Money Power Fame single.Marrying a very muscular band performance beautifully shot by DP&nbsp;James Henry with model Melissa Mae dripping in furs and surrounded by fluttering bank notes...

Joe Connor

Chief Productions

Nick Crossley

Kate Brady

Alexa Haywood at Free Agent UK

Mike Higson

James Henry

Esther Vardy

Carl Noble

Chris Loughlin

Steve Benson

Mike Percy

Sam Hall, Alan Horsfield

Claire Molloy

Michael Harry

Brooke Wylie

Gordon Chappels

James/Rolling Vision

Melissa Mae

George K

Ian McLaughlin

Don Broco 'Money Power Fame' by Joe Connor

Don Broco - Money Power Fame (Official Video)

Melbourne singer-songwriter Vance Joy teams up with Sing J Lee for this sensitive video portrayal of his single First Time - taken from the forthcoming album Dream Your Life Away (September 5).Shot at photographic facility Waddington Studios,&nbsp;Sing&#39;s bittersweet promo documents the joy and heartbreak of a first love...

Australia

Vance Joy 'First Time' by Sing J Lee

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