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Paul McKee

Jordan Rossi directs a cathartic promo for Sir Tom Jones, featuring actor/dancer Iain Mackay.&nbsp;The track is a&nbsp;reversioning of the&nbsp;Bob Dylan song, and touches&nbsp;upon&nbsp;frank realisations about growing old, whilst still evoking a sense of positivity.The video focusses upon Mackay as a solitary drinker in a dive bar, chugging back the beers whilst&nbsp;lost in painful&nbsp;thought. As Sir Tom and the Dylan-penned track get going, his spirits start to improve. Soon he is off the barstool,&nbsp;dancing&nbsp;around the venue, leaving no part of the room untouched.&nbsp;And then, after reclaiming his sense of self, he leaves - driving off in a vintage Pontiac.[imgtoken data:1]"The concept for Not Dark Yet represented something very unique to me - even in the harrowing nature of this awareness of being near the end of your life there is a kernel of positivity that I wanted to hone in on," says Rossi."I remember writing in the treatment that you're never too old to have some fun and that's exactly what this is. No matter where life has taken you to you can always find a bit of fun somewhere. Particularly in the music."I really wanted to ensure that the video had some emotionality to it. I tried to imbue the video with every inch of detail that I could, some aspect that everyone would recognise in themselves. Whether that's the down-and-out start or the carefree climax or simply a love of music that is splashed across the entire piece.[imgtoken data:2]"I couldn't have completed the video without our protagonist Iain Mackay, ex-principal dancer from the Birmingham Royal Ballet, who came in at the last minute - literally the night before the shoot - and absolutely understood what we were trying to achieve."But also [DoP] Luke Scully who helped develop the visual style with me, Elle [Lotherington, 1st AD] who kept us on track throughout a tricky day and Natricia [Bernard, choreographer] whose energy and ingenuity never cease to amaze me."Scully's cinematography, including the use of&nbsp;different overlays and digital grain creates a slightly gritty and timeless feel.&nbsp;"The visual style takes inspiration from 1970s B-Movies and the Grindhouse genre, popularised in recent years by the likes of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez," says Rossi.&nbsp;"But I chose to swap the action-packed gore for an upbeat two-step."

United Kingdom

Jordan Rossi

Katie Cooper

Tonic/The Graft

Beth Montague

Jake Bishop

Elle Lotherington

Luke Scully

Krishan Parmar

Rebecca Hanson

Samuel Marr

True Black Studio

Iain Mackay

Carrie Sutton

Universal

Natricia Bernard

Tom Jones 'Not Dark Yet' by Jordan Rossi

Tom-Jones-'Not-Dark-Yet'-by-Jordan-Rossi

Colin Read employs technical ingenuity to chronicle a man's descent to the brink of madness for Doves.In the Broken Eyes video it's the same room, the same camera move (more or less) being replayed again and again. Each time a fraught domestic situation gets worse. It's a lockdown nightmare, basically.But can this selfish, self-destructive individual pull himself together before it's too late?&nbsp;

Colin Read

Francesco Rizzo

Pulse Films

Rik Green

Don Shapira

Logan Triplett

Rachel Batashvili

Emma Penrose

Dave McCabe

Luke Carr

Abbey Oliver

Jennifer King

Joseph Bicknell

Company 3

Alexandra Lubrano

Hands London

EMI Records

Doves 'Broken Eyes' by Colin Read

Doves-'Broken-Eyes-'-by-Jack-Smith

BWTV direct a transcendent and philosophical visual for Doves' Prisoners.&nbsp;Following the incredible VFX trickery in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2020/06/29/doves-carousels-yoni-weisberg/65436">Carousels</a>&nbsp;- their first release in over ten years - this video follows a similarly abstract pattern, focusing on vignettes of life and the universe.&nbsp;Spanning a huge variety of self-contained mini-concepts, the setups includes&nbsp;a fawn inside a modern apartment, a variety of lighting patterns inside&nbsp;buildings and off-kilter journeys through the streets and skies.&nbsp;Complete with a series of breathless visual effects, the video is a triumphant return for Doves, and a perfect follow-up to the last release.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]

BWTV

Jack Lightfoot

Blindeye Films

Daniel Davies

Dan Moran

Kye Dorricott

Virgin EMI

Indie

Rock

Doves 'Prisoners' by BWTV

Doves-'Prisoners'-by-Bwtv

Yoni Weisberg has devised a euphoric and mesmerising world in a video that heralds the long-awaited return of Manchester band Doves.Weisberg's video for Carousels (featuring a sample of the late Tony Allen's legendary drumming)&nbsp;introduces us to his new reality, where brutalist architecture is deconstructed, and comes apart from regimented reality. It's engrossing, constantly engaging, and when the viewer comes to terms with this world, the director introduces into a new level of abstraction to help twist the reality further.“As soon as the opportunity came up to create a video for an iconic band in Doves I knew that it was one which I couldn’t let slip through my fingers," says Weisberg. "The development of the creative approach was very collaborative with the band and they’ve been both brilliant partners and incredibly supportive all throughout the creation of the video for Carousels."When we started on the road with this project the world was in a very different place but in the end I think there is something rather serendipitous about having made a video which takes the world somewhat as we know it, then turned it on it’s head to create something almost unrecognisable.”

Yoni Weisberg

Ben McFarlane

Chief Productions

Chief Post

Paul Willis

Prateek Mathur

Chris Birks

Dance

Doves 'Carousels' by Yoni Weisberg 

Doves-'Carousels'-by-Yoni-Weisberg-

The Courteeners return with the thrilling final instalment of their&nbsp;Better trilogy, directed&nbsp;by Joe Connor.&nbsp;Written by&nbsp;novelist&nbsp;Emma Jane Unsworth as a short film and split across three videos,&nbsp;the final segment focusses on main protagonist Lauren,&nbsp;who has an out of body experience as a handful of surgeons operate on her. Vivid hallucinations fill the screen as her chest opens up into a black hole, and the further she delves into her&nbsp;labyrinthian mind, the weirder her experience&nbsp;becomes.&nbsp;&nbsp;Haunting and surreal, the visual ends where <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8KWL4Mj1o4&amp;list=RDhe2zwSwTrK0&amp;index=2" target="_blank">the first video for Heavy Jacket</a> started, suggesting a variety of possible explanations, from a full-on drug trip to some kind of purgatory.&nbsp;The trilogy's consistent strand,&nbsp;tying together the three segments, is the band performance set-up, once again taking place in front of a retro-futuristic window in a club environment - full of energy and with a knockout performance from Corteeners' frontman Liam Fray.&nbsp;

Joe Connor

Nick Crossley

Joel Honeywell

Ian McLaughlin

George K

Alexa Haywood at Free Agent UK

Black Kite Studios

Alternative, Indie Rock

Courteeners 'Hanging Off Your Cloud' by Joe Connor

Courteeners-'Hanging-Off-Your-Cloud'-by-Joe-Connor

Barns Courtney gets an endoscopy in a surreal doctors practice, in the video for Hollow&nbsp;directed by Mathy &amp; Fran. As the doctor uses a thin camera to search inside Courtney’s body, a 404 warning appears on-screen (a nod to the album title)&nbsp;and no organs can be found.That is until Courtney and his band appear, performing the song and jumping around the pitch black space. The doctor is alarmed, but she has just the medicine for it. From then on, things get weirder and weirder, until Courtney breaks through and rejects the doctor’s orders, turning the practice into his new performing space.The surrealism and colour palettes are reminiscent of Gondry, and Mathy &amp; Fran show that they have complete control over their signature style, perfectly balancing colour and texture to great effect. This one is a trip, and not to be missed.

Mathy & Fran

Alisdair Mitchell

My Accomplice

Imogen Harrison

Sam Greaves

Charlie Goodger

Oian Arteta

Alexandra Day

Sian Duke

TenThree

Tim Smith

CHEAT

Barns Courtney 'Hollow' by Mathy & Fran 

Barns Courtney - Hollow

Baked beans, charades and human brains... James Slater takes us on an unholy day-trip to the seaside with a charming cast of Hammer Horror monsters for Blossoms.Band frontman Tom Ogden plays an amorous werewolf (replete in double-denim) lusting after the Bride of Frankenstein - his best friend’s girlfriend.James Slater has a preoccupation with mixing horror tropes into the ordinary and domestic. It began with a band turning into zombies for Jamie T, and continued into his stately home giallo movie for <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2017/02/13/circa-waves-fire-burns-james-slater/46099" target="_blank">Circa Waves</a>. Your Girlfriend is the latest pastiche in this loveable series. As always, his regular collaborator Natasha Lawes is close-at-hand with some fantastic prosthetics.

James Slater

Harry Flinder

Harry Sherriff

Simon Plunket

Alexa Hartle

Kerry Saxon

Natasha Lawes

Liam Bachler

George Neave

Coffee & TV

Alternative, Indie

Indie Rock

Blossoms 'Girlfriend' by James Slater

Blossoms-'Girlfriend'-by-James-Slater

Pablo Maestres&#39; stunningly imaginative video for Barns Courtney takes us deep into Barns&#39;s obsession with a girl in a toothpaste commercial - was was once his prom date.Soon he is seeing her everywhere - and everybody is her - as this lusciously cinematic world becomes increasingly surreal...This co-production with Friend in London and Primo in Spain is a beautifully produced work, with wonderful art direction by&nbsp;Anna Colomer Nogué. And really great to have the super-talented Pablo Maestres back making music videos.

Pablo Maestres

Ines Massa

FRIEND

Luke Tierney

Dani Molina

Anna Capdevila

Oriol Barcelona

Maria Codina

Lluís Ferrer

Siscu Felices

Anna Colomer Nogué

Carolina Galiana

Patricia Del Campo

Patricia Reyes

Carlos Font Clos

Marc Morató

Glassworks Barcelona

Diego Cárcoba

Virgin Emi Records

Luna Esquerdo

Primo

Metropolitana

Barns Courtney 'You & I' by Pablo Maestres

Jim Canty&#39;s latest video for Catfish And the Bottlemen picks up where his last one, for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2019/01/11/catfish-and-bottlemen-longshot-jim-canty/56765" target="_blank">Longshot</a>&nbsp;left off.&nbsp;In the 2all video the band are once again on the rugged British coast, driving in a&nbsp;vintage&nbsp;1956 Land Rover&nbsp;along weather-beaten South Shields beaches and cliff tops. This time they head for the seaside town&#39;s landmark Amphitheatre arcades, beautifully captured from above. And once again they&#39;re ready to play.

Jim Canty

James Cross

Kode Media

Nathan Killham

Conor Duffy

Jonathan Sidwell

Mel Griffith

Jon Scaife

Ellen Pickering

Tony Cook

Gemma Stafford

Darren Baldwin

Final Cut

Electric Theatre Collective

Island Records

Catfish And The Bottlemen '2all' by Jim Canty

Catfish-And-The-Bottlemen-'2all'-by-Jim-Canty

Jim Canty reunites with Catfish and the Bottlemen for the first single from their forthcoming new&nbsp;album, with a video that takes a simple idea and turns into an epic. It&#39;s all in the execution.Drones have been getting some bad press lately, but here you just see how spectacular the results can be when you use one properly; to tell a story in one magnificent sweeping manoeuvre.From the wide shot of Bottlemen lead singer Van McCann driving from a windswept Northumbrian coast, joining his bandmates under a big top to perform the song, to their departure in the same Land Rover, it&#39;s all captured in one skillfully operated&nbsp;move.&nbsp;Which is also highly appropriate&nbsp;for a song called Longshot.Jim Canty explains below exactly how nailbiting this experience was - and why working with drones is highly problematic. But this has turned out to be&nbsp;a showcase of why they are so amazing.

Catfish And The Bottlemen 'Longshot' by Jim Canty

Catfish-And-The-Bottlemen-'Longshot-'-by-Jim-Canty

It&#39;s Take That, but not quite as you&#39;ve ever seen them before.Mike Baldwin sends Gary, Mark and Howard through a&nbsp;hyperreal mishmash of visual styles, throws them a few instruments and, bingo - he&#39;s made a rollicking video for Out Of Our Heads, with a&nbsp;lighthearted, Sixties psycheledia-lite vibe.The guys, particularly Gary, buy into this lighthearted family-friendly&nbsp;version of befuddlement. And the feeling that this could have&nbsp;popped from an old TV show, like The Monkees, is emphasised&nbsp;by their brief appearance in cartoon form. Maybe they could be the new Gorillaz...

Michael Baldwin

Ben Burton

Marcus Domleo

Ran Geffen

James Wicks

Saul Harris

Anna Mould

Emma Lamp

Sinead Mcgowan

Umbrella

Máté Barbalics

Lock it in

Semera Khan

Polydor

Take That 'Out Of Our Heads' by Michael Baldwin

Take-That-'Out-Of-Our-Heads'-by-Mike-Baldwin

It&#39;s the tennis duel of the ages, of the two best players anywhere, and possibly of all times. And forget Borg/McEnroe, or Federer/Nadal or even King/Riggs. This is the big one: Isaac Acey v Isiah Smash.Jackson Ducasse has concocted a classic (tennis) court encounter between the two sides of the super-competitive psyche of singer-songwriter Isaac Gracie, from an idea devised by both the artist and director. It manages to encompass deadpan comedy, existentialism, wistfulness, and a bit of half-decent play.Most importantly,&nbsp;both red Isaac and blue Isaac look very cool in their 80s tennis threads, so you don&#39;t even have to like tennis to like this.Game set and match to doubles partners Gracie and Ducasse.

Jackson Ducasse

Lisa Turnbull

Reblis Films

Elvis Scanlon

Jonathan Tarby

Ollie Craig

Mathew Rice

Georgina Roberton

Danielle Farrington

Thomas Rosser

Holly Greig

Freefolk

Isaac Gracie, Freddie Sheed, Josh Weston

Marisa Garner Associates

Virgin Records

Singer-songwriter

Isaac Gracie 'Show Me Love' by Jackson Ducasse

Isaac-Gracie-'Show-Me-Love'-by-Jackson-Ducasse

Barns Courtney checks out of his humdrum office job and takes a trip back to 1999, video games, funky outfits and all,&nbsp;in Paul Capra&#39;s wildly free-wheeling new video.Go BC!

Paul McKee

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