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Kris Lekov

Ben Howard returns with the first release from his fourth album and a satirical take on the mores of the English landed classes in a widescreen comedy&nbsp;with bite directed by Cloé Bailly.For What A Day Bailly plants the viewer firmly in the English countryside, with a hunting party of shotgun-toting gentry. These increasingly drunken upper class twits are prospective Elmer Fudds, on the hunt for rabbits - which are being protected elsewhere in the field by Ben Howard himself.The fun really starts when one of the party begins to turn into one of the very creatures that he and his pals intend to fill with buckshot. Mysteriously sprouting a bunny tail, prominent teeth and floppy ears becomes increasingly difficult to hide from his boozed-up pals - leading to a shootout worthy of a&nbsp;decent Spaghetti Western.<blockquote>Ben wanted to create a social satire about the vacuity of British nobility hunting parties.</blockquote>“When Ben told me he wanted a dark comedy music vid for What A Day, I was just psyched," says Cloé Bailly.&nbsp;"It's my favourite genre to explore. He wanted to create a social satire about the vacuity of British nobility hunting parties. In his own words, it&nbsp;was a nonsense idea loosely based upon the Old English rhyme, ‘back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot each other’.[imgtoken data:1]"People loving to hunt just for the sake of killing, not out of necessity, might as well end up shooting each other and loving it too... But what if on top of this nature took revenge? What if the predator turned into the prey so in this case a hunter turned into a rabbit?!<blockquote>Cloé is a queen of dark comedy - I’m so grateful we got to work together on it.</blockquote>The video was actually shot in Bulgaria - in countryside&nbsp;that could pass for the rolling hills of the home counties.&nbsp;"Shooting in the Bulgarian mountains was intense but Ben, the crew and I were like kids," comments&nbsp;Bailly. "It's exhilarating to play with human emotions in a <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/huis_clos" target="_blank">huis-clos</a>, to imagine what people are truly capable of. And it’s always so good to see a whole crew getting on board with such a nonsense concept based on animal hysteria and group homicide. And of course, it goes without saying that having a dozen adorable bunnies around makes any shoot sweeter...”Ben Howard has added that&nbsp;“Cloé somehow transformed a basic countryside shoot ‘em up into an amazing tale of delightful retribution. Cloé is a queen of dark comedy and I’m so grateful that as friends we got to work together on it. The eclectic Bulgarian cast and crew somehow managed to pull this off in strange times, made all the more entertaining in a completely foreign language.”

United Kingdom

Cloé Bailly

Stephanie Paeplow

Caviar

Daniella Manca

B2Y Productions

Ivan Ivanov

Nico Poulsson

Konstantin Velichkov

Alexander Trenev

Sergei Yordanov

Flaura Atkinson

Homespun

Angela Hart

Matthieu Toullet

Leianna Campbell

Micha Barban-Dangerfield

Laura Clayton

Island Records

Singer-songwriter

Ben Howard 'What A Day' by Cloé Bailly

Ben Howard - What A Day (Official Video)

The underground rave scene is dead in&nbsp;Cry\\Wolf&#39;s action&nbsp;video for Turn Me Up&nbsp;- until undercover producer MOTi&nbsp;brings the party&nbsp;via high-powered boomboxes.&nbsp;Singer&nbsp;Nabiha&nbsp;lets&nbsp;everyone know what&#39;s up&nbsp;with&nbsp;some spirited vocals in the street before joining in and dancing until the ambulance arrives. And MOTi and Nabiha have clearly done this before. They have&nbsp;come prepared, riding off into the night in their getaway car.&nbsp;The video, shot on the impressive New York set at the Nu Boyana studio in Bulgaria,&nbsp;features some slick,&nbsp;nighttime cinematography, cool colouring&nbsp;and fast&nbsp;car driving sequences, resulting in some exciting&nbsp;Hollywood-style action and energy.&nbsp;

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