Commissioner

Bart McDonagh

Jack Whiteley returns to music videos - his first since a deliciously kooky number for <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2019/04/12/aldous-harding-fixture-picture-jack-whiteley-aldous-harding/58231" target="_blank">Aldous Harding</a> earlier in the year - to undertake an surprising, sizzling makeover for erstwhile earnest indie-rockers All We Are.&nbsp;In keeping with the change&nbsp;to a&nbsp;funkier sound on their forthcoming third album, Whiteley has introduced a new element to the band's previously worthy profile - sex. But then delivers the naughty stuff&nbsp;in a charmingly tongue-in-cheek package for the album's first single L Is For Lose.It's a hot, sultry, even sweaty&nbsp;August night in Miami in about 1985 - shot in a studio, rather like a music video of the era. The band have the mock edgy attitude, like from a Pat&nbsp;Benatar video.&nbsp;But unlike the 80s, its embellished with garish&nbsp;animation that delivers&nbsp;the lyrics - created by Whitelely's regular collaborator Joe Wills - that seeps and blisters through the screen.&nbsp;It's a lurid aesthetic that's something of an acquired taste - but once acquired, you can settle back and enjoy, together with the various pleasures to be had from All We Are's change in musical direction.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Jack Whiteley

Cecilia Linares

Blink

Laura Northover

Joel Honeywell

Richard O’brien

Jean Ash

Lee Isserow

Orla Lawn

Steven Spencer

Heather Mclaughlin

Joe Wills

Chris Wilson

Homespun

Adam Clarke

Absolute Post

Geri Krasteva

Owen Saward

Domino Records

Indie

All We Are 'L Is For Lose' by Jack Whiteley

All-We-Are-'L-Is-For-Lose'-by-Jack-Whiteley

Jack Barraclough collaborates with animator Venla Linna to create this excellent video for Seamus Fogarty, where the harrowing tale of Carlow Town is told through expressive choreography from Fogarty and bandmates, and with complementary animated drawings.Barrowclough sticks to a black and white palette with the band - where their unlikely recruitment to choreography is part of the fun &ndash; while Linna&#39;s animation starts out as graphic lines, then becomes more figurative and the story takes a chilling turn, even recalling Gerald Scarfe&#39;s legendary animation for Pink Floyd&#39;s Another Brick In The Wall at one point.

Jack Barraclough

Joshua Noon

Greatcoat Films

Connor Chalk

Jean Dakar

Kieran Dhami

Tom La'motte

Paul Rogers

Domino Recording Co.

Seamus Fogarty 'Carlow Town' by Jack Barraclough

Seamus-Fogarty-'Carlow-Town'-by-Jack-Barraclough

Kieran Evans&#39;&nbsp;beautifully photographed film for Seamus Fogarty&#39;s new track uses the simple premise of a journey from land to sea as the backdrop to weave a vocal performance and a typographic treatment of the lyrics.Shot in the Isle of Sheppey in Essex, the combination of natural beauty and old industry is brought together in the great black and white cinematography, shot by Evans himself. Fogarty&#39;s journey through these landscapes under a cloudless summer sky is counterbalanced with closeups of his face, and lines from the song printed on clear celophane.&nbsp;Travelling along hidden paths and well-trodden tracks, the singer&#39;s journey reflects his lyrics - and eventually lead us to a vast, empty sea.And a word of warning - this video starts with over a minute of Evans&#39; imagery with no sound at all. So your headphones aren&#39;t broken.

Kieran Evans

Jason Hocking

CC-Lab

Fran Langlands

Liam White

Liam Bunston

Seamus Fogarty

Seamus Fogarty 'Short Ballad For A Long Man' by Kieran Evans

Seamus-Fogarty-'Short-Ballad-For-A-Long-Man'-by-Kieran-Evans

Veteran rock &#39;n roll rebel&nbsp;Peter Perrett&#39;s lacerating critique-cum-love letter addressed to the USA now has a great visual accompaniment directed by Focus Creeps which revels in its old school video aesthetic.Shot on 16mm, bursting with colour, and with the Perrett performance in East London supplemented by the judicious use of stock footage, How The West Was Won has the weight and the gorgeous look of a Nineties video by Peter Care made on fifty times the budget.&nbsp;In a way this seems an unlikely approach for Perrett, with his ghoulish look and leery vocals, but it works a treat. There&#39;s great work here by a crew including DoP Nick Morris, editor Megan Thorne, and colourist Joseph Bicknell, in a video that displays the collective effort of videomaking on its sleeve. But the biggest props go to Focus Creeps for the bold vision.

Focus Creeps

Aaron Z. Willson

FRIEND

Luke Tierney

Nick Morris

Ralph Messer

Meg Thorne

Cut+Run

Callum Harrison

Joseph Bicknell

CHEAT

Domino

Indie, Alternative

Peter Perrett 'How The West Was Won' by Focus Creeps

Peter-Perrett-'How-The-West-Was-Won'-by-Focus-Creeps

Sasha Rainbow directs this powerfully cool promo for Wild Beasts.Shot in Bangalore, India,&nbsp;the clip acts as a portrait for a&nbsp;new generation of girls empowering themselves through skateboarding. Girls of all ages, in all manner of clothing, skate effortlessly through the city streets whilst onlookers seem amazed and confused.These awesome females tear up streets and skateparks alike, by day and night, with the night time scenes flooded with gorgeous coloured lights. An all-round fantastic celebration of culture and empowerment.

Sasha Rainbow

Felix Jude West

Rumble

Fritzi Nicolaus

Alexandre Jamin

Rudresh Benchalli

Mani Bc

Somanna Somz

Sarah Peczek; Flaura Atkinson

The Quarry

Matthieu Toullet

Youngster

Lock It In

Rosalind Croad

Indie Rock, Alternative

Wild Beasts 'Alpha Female' by Sasha Rainbow

Wild-Beasts-'Alpha-Female'-by-Sasha-Rainbow

Layla Atkinson and her team at Trunk have created an impressive labour of love for folk legend Shirley Collins&#39;s Pretty Polly.Shot on film over two days with a locked-off camera and no edits or cutaways (during the hottest September weather for a century), this handmade piece of puppetry has too many moving parts to comprehend. A wonderfully authentic feeling handmade show with painted sets, creative use of lighting and charming use of traditional &#39;Jig Doll&#39; puppets. And that&#39;s perfect for Collins&#39; version of an 18th century ballad from the Appalachians.<a href="https://vimeo.com/185965429">As this behind the scenes video illustrates</a>, Atkinson and her team have delivered a very complex piece of work, and yet made it look so simple.[imgtoken data:1]

Layla Atkinson

Richard Barnett

Pete Ellmore

Jonathan Yates

Adam Bell

Jock Mooney

John Harmer

Rebecca Manley

Jonny T at Glassworks

Trunk Animation

Folk

Shirley Collins 'Pretty Polly' by Layla Atkinson

Shirley Collins | Pretty Polly

Shirley Collins, a legend of British folk music, has a new album coming out - her first for 38 years, no less. Maverick filmmaker Nick Abrahams has directed the video for the first single Death And The Lady - and he&#39;s also making a comeback of sorts. This is his first video since Sigur Ros&#39;s <a href="http://promonews.tv/videos/2012/09/28/sigur-r%C3%B3s-ekki-m%C3%BAkk-nick-abrahams" target="_blank">Ekki Mukk</a>, featuring Aiden Gillen,&nbsp;four years ago.&nbsp;In the Sigur Ros film&nbsp;Gillen rambles through the countryside, accompanied by a talking snail, the voice supplied by Collins, who took the part after being approached by Abrahams.&nbsp;This film is in some ways a companion piece to that, continuing to explore the oddness and ancient magic to be found&nbsp;in rural England, and the cycle&nbsp;of nature.With his collaborators, including DoP Ole Birkeland and artist Cathy Ward, Abrahams embraces the song&#39;s theme with imagery of skulls - one of the locations was the ossuary, or crypt, at St Leonards Church in Hythe&nbsp;- and &#39;hooden horses&#39; of ancient Kentish custom. But it&#39;s also a celebration of life, and we witness birth even within the symbol of death: a chick hatched in a bird&#39;s nest found in an ancient skull.&nbsp;And there is&nbsp;Shirley Collins&nbsp;herself, now 81, a serene and happy presence in the film, and with the help of Abrahams, a revived voice breathing fresh life into traditional&nbsp;English folk music.[imgtoken data:1] &nbsp;&nbsp;

Nick Abrahams

Dhiraj Mahey

Ole Birkeland

Alexandra Voikou

John Maloney

Yah-wan McClelland-Scott

Toby Amies

Jens Petersen

Primal Pictures

Shirley Collins 'Death And The Lady' by Nick Abrahams

Shirley Collins - Death And The Lady (Official Video)

Pablo Maestres doesn&#39;t direct music videos very often. His last one was the wonderfully surreal clip for&nbsp;<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2015/04/21/fur-voice-fantas%C3%ADa-pablo-maestres" target="_blank">Fur Voice&#39;s Fantasia</a>, multi-nominated at the MVAs in 2015.&nbsp;Now he&#39;s back with a video for&nbsp;Wild Beasts - his first for a British band&nbsp;&ndash; which shares the dreamlike quality of the Fantasia video, but with a more nightmarish edge.In the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY7hnGmK9pE" target="_blank">BTS film</a> for the video, Maestres describes how he took the meaning of Big Cat as being a power that is beyond one&#39;s control. From that he extrapolated a road movie, with the band travelling around the Catalonia countryside&nbsp;in a classic &#39;70s Ford Granada Ghia, evading unknown forces. The element of music-inspired surrealism is present from the start: models in magazines and posters lipsync the chorus of the song.With the story building from a series of memorable set-pieces, this is a beautifully crafted work. The&nbsp;ambition of the production&nbsp;is reflected in the shooting schedule - 12 locations in two days - interrupted by an incredible storm, prior to the climactic scene in a carpark where Wild Beasts&#39; singer Hayden Thorpe is confronted by a snarling wolf - which was evidently shot for real. Lets hope&nbsp;it&#39;s not another two years before the hugely talented Pablo&nbsp;Maestres&#39; next music video.

Pablo Maestres

Laia Barot

Aina Salarich

Marc Miró

IvÁn TriviÑo

Paula Delgado

Carlos Font Clos

Xavi Santolaya

Alternative

Wild Beasts 'Big Cat' by Pablo Maestres

Wild-Beasts-'Big-Cat'-by-Pablo-Maestres

Kate Moross delivers a visually arresting video for Georgia&#39;s latest and emotive single Heart Wrecking Animals, where nothing is ever quite fully in focus.

Kate Moross

Mikael Nakkas

My Accomplice

Jamie Clark

Marek Mysicka

Thomas Terminet

Ed Warren

John 'JP' Partridge

Georgia 'Heart Wrecking Animals' by Kate Moross

Georgia-'Heart-Wrecking-Animals'-by-Kate-Moross

Georgia gets immersed into a multi-coloured&nbsp;forest&nbsp;along with mysterious figures, for her heavily atmospheric&nbsp;video for Nothing Solutions, directed by Courtney Philips. At first, it appears she&#39;s running away from the shadows, but as they catch up with her, we find out&nbsp;she&rsquo;s actually running with them - leading the pack.

Courtney Phillips

Harvey Ascott

London Alley

Jess Bell

George Nelson

Patrick Meller

James Burgess

Gary Long

Nil Tomakan

Sophie Cox

Sara Faulkner

Speade

Houmam Abdallah

Electric Theatre Collective

James Drew

Mike Tyler

OB Management

Jamie Monks

Alex Williams

Chris Bates

Paul Padfield

Sam Carter

James Budd

Ana Gold

Nikolai Panek

Synth-Pop

Georgia 'Nothing Solutions' by Courtney Phillips

Georgia-'Nothing-Solutions'-by-Courtney-Phillips

Based around&nbsp;a live performance in a retro-style club and beautifully shot by DP&nbsp;Bjorn Bratberg,&nbsp;Karan Kandhari, director of award winning film Bye Bye Miss Goodnight,&nbsp;unveils the promo for Franz Ferdinand&#39;s Stand On The Horizon from the band&#39;s&nbsp;fourth album Right Thoughts.

Karan Kandhari

Agile Films

Kat Cattaneo

Dan Gibling

Bjorn Bratberg

Carly Reddin

Poppy Bell

Jo Jo Copeman

Andrew Fletcher

Rob Simpkins

Simona Harrison

Rushes

Franz Ferdinand 'Stand On The Horizon ' by Karan Kandhari

Franz-Ferdinand-'Stand-On-The-Horizon-'-by-Karan-Kandhari

Alden Volney&#39;s video for Villagers&#39; Occupy Your Mind is for Conor O&#39;Brien&#39;s timely protest against Russian anti-gay legislation - as the Winter Olympics in Sochi begins.&nbsp;&nbsp;The video&nbsp;is a simple and stark idea which incorporates Alden&#39;s distinctive lo-fi/retro animation style - projected on Conor&#39;s face.

Alden Volney

Sarah Boardman

Nic Booth

Riff Raff Films

Joceline Gabriel

Matthew Fone

Shabana Mansuri

Mari Stracke

Villagers 'Occupy Your Mind' by Alden Volney

Villagers-'Occupy-Your-Mind'-by-Alden-Volney

Andy Knowles goes way back with Franz Ferdinand &ndash; see his notes&nbsp;below &ndash; but this is his first ever video for the band, and a&nbsp;&nbsp;very stylish performance video it is too, with the boys in black leather rocker mode, for Bullet.Well&nbsp;shot by Jack Wilkinson, it&#39;s shorn of frills &ndash; apart from a cool 360˚bullet-time effect, created with a bank of&nbsp;32 GoPros.

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