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Pitching Stornoway singer Brian as a weatherman depicting The Mariner's turbulent voyage and other members of the band as some key characters (including a slightly creepy albatross), they finale on a rather wonderful ship-based set.
And the Mitcham Submarine briefly surfaced to explain the literary allusion: "Singer Brian is The Ancient Mariner in the guise of a modern day TV weatherman as he describes the journey of the doomed ship," says Craig. "Band members Rob &amp; Jon play the Wedding Guest and Hermit respectively. Bassist Oli reports in 'live' from the quayside of the launch of a ship, which in design is similar to another famously doomed vessel. One of the other characters in the video is reading The Mariner's Mirror; a heavyweight nautical publication from 1911 which is still in circulation today."

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=ztOtNCyjE-w

The Mitcham Submarine

The Mitcham Submarine / Suze Olbrich

4AD Records

Murren Tullett

Philip Hurst

Adam Lilley

Jakob Brondum

James Bridgford

James Harman @ TC Soho

Tom Knowles @ The Joint

Liam Glyde

Josh Turner

Stornoway 'Knock Me On The Head' by The Mitcham Submarine

Stornoway-'Knock-Me-On-The-Head'-by-The-Mitcham-Submarine

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...

Luke Monaghan

Rokkit

Laure Salgon

Carl Ballou

Madeline Sekela

Danni McClellan

Tyler Grimm

OB Management

Mike Mooney

Disclosure ft Aluna George 'White Noise' by Luke Monaghan

Disclosure-ft-Aluna-George-'White-Noise'-by-Luke-Monaghan

Yo La Tengo and Phil Morrison go back a long way. Phil directed the video for <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watchfeature=player_embedded&amp;v=hu9DnE7gTIU" target="_blank">The Summer</a> from YLT's 1989 album Fakebook, and went on to make a couple of arch comedies for Tom Courtney and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watchv=zDgpQBaziy0" target="_blank">Sugarcube</a> in 1997 - before the band performed the soundtrack for Phil's acclaimed debut movie Junebug.
The Sugarcube promo - a rock school parody years before School of Rock - was the last time that Yo La Tengo's Ira, Georgia and James appeared in one of their own videos - until I'll Be Around, from the band's newest, 13th album Fade. But this is a different kettle of fish entirely. In fact, it is a pot of spicy tortilla soup, and Tortilla De Espana, made by the band at their home. This is indeed an indie-rock cooking show, with on-screen instructions struggling for space with lots more texts that aren't the lyrics of the song either, and an opening featuring another longtime Morrison associate, Superchunk's Mac McCaughan.

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=KJyjzHIgqr4&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;noredirect=1

Phil Morrison

Brielle Murray

Epoch Films

Corey Walter

Yo La Tengo 'I'll Be Around' by Phil Morrison

Yo-La-Tengo’s-music-video-mixtape

Yo-La-Tengo-'I'll-Be-Around'-by-Phil-Morrison

Sinead O'Connor is back with a new album ready to drop next month. In the meantime, she's released her new video for '4th and Vine' as a taster of what's to come. Directed by Kathryn Ferguson, it's an artfully done black and white promo focusing on Irish wedding customs, filmed just outside Dublin. It's also the first music video to feature Sinead herself in over ten years, as she busks in the pub at the wedding reception!
"As it was a wedding song and reminded me of the traditional wedding songs I decided to look back at the now mostly defunct wedding rituals of mid century rural ireland," Kathryn explains. "Rituals like breaking the bread over the bride's head and the appearance of the anonymous strawboys used to feature heavily at most country weddings..."

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=bIoi7s42lrA

Ruth Treacy

Mark Kilbride

Anna Sweeney

Morna Ferguson

Carly Baker

Isla Jeffrey

Sinead O'Connor '4th and Vine' by Kathryn Ferguson

Sinead-O'Connor-'4th-and-Vine'-by-Kathryn-Ferguson

Ellis Bahl's video for Applying Myself by Only You - aka Rachel Fannan, former bandmember of psych rockers Sleepy Sun - is a low-key contrast to his other new video, the high concept triumph for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2012/11/20/walk-off-the-earth-red-hands-by-ellis-bahl/" target="_blank">Walk Off The Earth's Red Hands</a>. This is cinematic, in a domestic setting - a bit simpler in structure than his MVA-winning effort for Alt-J's Breezeblocks, but with a rather ingenious hook nonetheless.
Rachel got in touch with Ellis after seeing the Breezeblocks video, sending him Applying Myself and asking him if he was interested in making the video. After listening to this Ronstadt-esque slab of country-rock, he was delighted to get involved in this low-budget project. 
And so, late at night, after what looks like more than a few drinks at the homestead (decked out with jukebox and piano), Rachel sings along to her own song - on the karaoke machine...

Ellis Bahl

Sarah Lawson

Danielle Hinde

Doomsday

Jackson Hunt

Luke Hanlein

Ali Rubinfeld

Susie Gados

Trevor Durtschi

Jared

Only You 'Applying Myself' by Ellis Bahl

Only-You-'Applying-Myself'-by-Ellis-Bahl

Ellis Bahl's much celebrated, UK MVA winning, backwards murder video for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2012/04/19/%E2%88%86-alt-j-breezeblocks-by-ellis-bahl/" target="_blank">Alt-J's 'Breezeblocks'</a> was a bit of a brain twister, but with this promo for Walk of the Earth he's artfully constructed a backwards, forwards, slow-motion, single-take wonderful nightmare of a performance video. The band perform the song, in the wrong order (sometimes the wrong direction) and Ellis's editing - no cuts, just fast-forward and reverse - bring the whole song together in the right order.
When watching the video, you'll struggle to comprehend how on earth he did it, but then watch the making of/unedited version and you'll struggle to understand how on earth he could plan the idea in the first place! It's more incredible promo filmmaking from one of the rising stars of music video.
Here's the unedited version: http://www.youtube.com/watchannotation_id=annotation_294253&amp;feature=iv&amp;src_vid=1bt-FHaFVH8&amp;v=-OtOnZeQ9IM
Ellis Bahl words on the video: "Initially I wanted to make a narrative video where you take a one shot and scrub along the timeline to tell the story out of order. I wanted it to look like when you drag the mouse back and forth in the viewer in Final Cut. When the WOTE brief came along I realized I could do the same thing with a performance video. I decided to walk the camera back in a straight line because I thought maybe it would give more temporal/spacial context to the scrubbing. It's hard to tell what's going on as it is, but I think the forward/backwards movement helps a bit. 
"My favorite part in the video is when they are building that drum set all out of order. I really wish I had come up with more things like that to have them do. It was difficult to figure out beforehand what was going to be interesting to watch out of order. In my opinion, building the drum set is the only truly interesting thing, everything else to me is just fluff. In fact, I find the un-edited version to be a more interesting and compelling video, because it's just crazy to see this band doing such a difficult thing for a single 4 minute take. I've now decided that I'm going to view them as a package. Neither is whole without the other. I've got them both on my website, because I think each enhances the worth of the other. 
"The scariest thing for me was that I had to make the messed up track a week before the shoot, so I had to lock down the order of shooting way in advance of knowing so many other things (like what/how big the location was, what the effects were going to be, and what the choreography was gonna be). So I sort of just winged something that I hoped would work, I mean I graphed the whole thing out on a BIG piece of paper, and then figured the rest out based on that."

Courtney Davies and Jason Colon

Bryan Younce

Max Orgell

Tristin Scott

Nick Lee

Mike Dempsey

Liam Bell

Avihai Yaffe

Hiro Murai, David Altobelli, Kevin Hayden

Walk Off The Earth 'Red Hands' by Ellis Bahl

Walk-Off-The-Earth-'Red-Hands'-by-Ellis-Bahl

Following promos for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2012/11/01/rita-ora-shine-ya-light-by-emil-nava/" target="_blank">Rita Ora</a> and <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2012/11/07/paloma-faith-just-be-by-emil-nava/" target="_blank">Paloma Faith</a>, Emil Nava continues his longstanding collaboration with Ed Sheeran to deliver his fourth video in quick succession.
Emil's gritty and imaginative video for Give Me Love - brilliantly shot by DP Olivier Cariou - features Isabel Lucas as the dark, modern-day cupid out on a matchmaking mission...

Emil Nava

Pulse

Stacy Vaughan

Mark Connell

Iain Mackay

Alex Day

Glassworks

Tamara Harel

Dan Curwin

Ben Rogers

Ed Sheeran 'Give Me Love' by Emil Nava

Patrick Killingbeck and A*M*E - hot new pop singer signed to Gary Barlow's Future Records imprint - join forces to indulge in her obsession for all things K-pop with this very colourful promo for new single Play The Game Boy...

Dulce Kellett

Vari Kenny

Isusko Garcia

Jamie Conoley

Brian Fawcett

Thomas Fishwick

Kit Mackenzie

Jayson Hunte

Adam Sl

John Hollinsworth

Tamer Wilde

Beth Honan

Ben New

Mary Calderwood

A*M*E 'Play The Game Boy' by Patrick Killingbeck

A*M*E-'Play-The-Game-Boy'-by-Patrick-Killingbeck

This is what happens when a matador messes with the wrong bull... Directing collective Brewer (brothers Ben and Alex Brewer) deliver this engrossing, highly watchable and beautifully surreal promo for the red hot Alt-J.
Shot at an authentic bullfighting arena in a Portuguese neighbourhood just outside Los Angeles (apparently bullfighting is still legal in California), Brewer match the soft altrock tones of Something Good to perfection with this slo-mo gem. The track is taken from the band's Mercury Prize-nominated album An Awesome Wave.

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=aNYjOVo5IEw

Brewer

Prettybird

Jason Kisvarday

Candice Ouaknine

Alt-J 'Something Good' by Brewer

Alt-J-'Something-Good'-by-Brewer

Brighton 5-piece Dear Prudence get together with Patrick Killingbeck for the promo to the anthemic Coming Apart Again. 
Patrick draws on the presence of photogenic lead singer Madeleine Poncia, who delivers an ice-cool performance in this stylish clip...

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=NeJM2aHHros

James Dyer

Tristan Parsons

Dan Stafford Clark

Dave Agha

Andy Woodcock

Stefan Mitchell

Joe Gibson

Pandora Lennard

Dear Prudence 'Coming Apart Again' by Patrick Killingbeck

Dear-Prudence-'Coming-Apart-Again'-by-Patrick-Killingbeck

Ian Cheng's amazing video for Liars' Brats deconstructs animation in a wonderful and slightly creepy fashion in the manner of CGI-deconstruction pioneers David O'Reilly and David Lewondowski. Looney Tunes' devotees will love the easily identifiable storyline and character interplay... - and then he slaps in Liars, who are always up for it.
Ian says: "For "Brats", I used a familiar animated narrative - hapless hunter vs. terroristic rabbit- as a format to grow a garden of signature motions. This collection of motions becomes material to recompose a new non-narrative choreography that animates the bodies of Liars. The Brats video documents this entropic haunting- from the ingredients of familiar meaning arises the terror of reckless non-meaning. A dog wanders indifferently through the animation, true to its nature."

Ian Cheng

Madeline Hollander

Christian de Vietri

Liars 'Brats' by Ian Cheng

Liars-'Brats'-by-Ian-Cheng

Shot in Malaga and featuring Made In Chelsea actress Caggie Dunlop, Patrick Killingbeck delivers this smooth, very sunny and very sexy promo for London band Lonsdale Boys Club's second single Ready To Go.

Claire Baylin & Jackie Green

Manic Butterfly

Lucas Cuevas

Adam Wilson

Esteban Wiaggio

John Rimmel

Roberto Morugan

Maite

Ailsa Robertson

Lonsdale Boys Club 'Ready To Go' by Patrick Killingbeck

Lonsdale-Boys-Club-'Ready-To-Go'-by-Patrick-Killingbeck

A band of female Royal Concept fans bully the band into playing an ad-hoc performance, complete with pillow fights and a spot of raucous behaviour in Bryan Schlam's promo for Gimme Twice.

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=bVvSfgiyCG8

Doomsday Ent

Ben Carey

Lauren Nikrooz

Zoe Bailey

Micah Ross

The Royal Concept 'Gimme Twice' by Bryan Schlam

The-Royal-Concept-'Gimme-Twice'-by-Bryan-Schlam

Tim Brown takes to the streets of New York with singer Charlie Winston for the retro soul of Where Can I Find Happiness.
Tim delivers a natural, organic promo with Winston photographing New Yorkers with his equally retro camera...
"The idea of using a camera as a device really appealed to me as we could tell the story of Charlie's journey using a number of different photographic techniques and styles of filming," says Tim. "Portraiture was always going to be very important part of this video and for us it was about approaching a range of everyday people on the street. 
"We didn't want to shoot lots of beautiful extras, it was about speaking to, and giving a brief snap shot of the people of NYC. Charlie was great on the shoot. We wanted find interesting stories and once we got into it, we literally couldn't stop him disappearing off across main roads to charm people into being in the video."

Tim Brown

Tiffany Soto, Brian Sanchez

Monica Boyd

Edgar Velez

James Rose

Sam Ostrove

Dan Murtha

Prime Focus

Anne

Vic Parker

Cut & Run

Charlie Winston 'Where Can I Find Happiness' by Tim Brown

It&#39;s hard to make a backwards video that does something new. And that&#39;s why this one by Ellis Bahl for Breezeblocks by touted new band ? (that&#39;s alt-J, Mac fans) is more than a bit special.Most, like The Scientist, end with a big revelatory moment. But something really shocking happens right at the start. And a breezeblock plays a central part of the story...

Jessica Bermingham

Tessa Travis

Project F

Brian Chandler

Daniel Lugo

Stephanie Wise

Marcela Lucia Cole

Alt-J 'Breezeblocks' by Ellis Bahl

∆-(Alt-J)-'Breezeblocks'-by-Ellis-Bahl

Jakes Harmer offers up this 'psychedelic celebration of youth', shot on location at Devils Dyke in Sussex. 
90's grunge was a key influence along with the pied-piper fable - playing on the title...

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/35x3W4G0n50" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""/>

Jake Harmer

Knock Knock

Sam Goldie

Kay Czuba

Luke Morrison @ The Mill

Chris Ranson

Chris Storrar

Peace 'Follow Baby' by Jake Harmer

Wizard-Sleeve’s-Get-Down-Tonight-by-Thomas-Goldser

Peace-'Follow-Baby'-by-Jake-Harmer

Darkly gothic, enigmatic and really rather creepy, Tabitha Denholm's video for Florence's Never Let Me Go is set in a deserted ice rink where a budding love affair between Florence and Jamie Campbell-Bower of Twilight fame turns very weird and disturbing...

Tabitha Denholm

Partizan Darkroom

Phil Tidy

Brett Webb

Jallo Faber

Sam Tidman

John Price, Douglas Haynes & Milo P

Tracy Cahoon

James Bamford

The Mill

Florence and The Machine 'Never Let Me Go' by Tabitha Denholm

Florence-and-The-Machine-'Never-Let-Me-Go'-by-Tabitha-Denholm

In his first video for over a year, Nez delivers his promo for Birdy's sensitive reading of Phoenix's 1901 - a very modern tale of love and heartbreak in East London.
Shot on and around Brick Lane, this is a marvellously told romantic tale of a decidedly imperfect hipster couple that rings very true. And London looks quite marvellous too... 
In short, awesome work by Nez. On yer bike, Richard Curtis...

Colonel Blimp

Max Windows

Aubrey Woodiwiss

Tamsin Glasson

Birdy '1901' by Nez (Director's Cut)

Alison Mosshart, all hair and cheekbones, sings this surprisingly elegiac number. She's joined in the booth by Jamie Hince, quite well cheekboned himself, demonstrating his legendary ease with highly attractive women.
The video is now on Nowness.com, which also has a <a href="http://www.nowness.com/day/2012/1/14/1814/samantha-morton-x-the-kills" target="_blank">behind-the-scenes peek and interview with Samantha Morton</a>.

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