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Sam Bailey returns to music videos&nbsp;with this joyful love letter to the Golden Age of film musicals, in his new promo for Metronomy.&nbsp;The band are seen adorned in giant flower headpieces, playing their song Love Factory, while being led by a conductor, and&nbsp;as a vivacious dancer, Majella Fitzgerald,&nbsp;takes centre stage.&nbsp;Majella is the busy Bee, who picks out each Metronomy 'flower', one by one, to 'pollinate' them. And this happens in a splendidly suggestive representation of Nature - choreographed by Supple Nam.&nbsp;From there, the concept launches into full, Golden Age musical mode, as the Bee interacts with each flower, around the stately house that provides the venue of the video, viewing each member through her trippy, multi-imaged 'bee vision.'&nbsp;It's an extremely skilled display of lightly frothy entertainment, that is also clever and subtly alternative in its joie de vivre. In other words, it's&nbsp;very Metronomy.[imgtoken data:1]<blockquote>The initial idea came from watching bees hopping from bud to bud on a rosemary bush.</blockquote>"From start to finish this music video was huge lumps of fun to make," says Sam Bailey. "The initial idea came from watching bees hopping from bud to bud on a rosemary bush in my garden, indiscriminately having sweet little intimate interactions before moving onto the next one."The flowers became happy little dance partners to the bee as it moved around from station to station, as if on a factory floor. It married up perfectly with Joe's lyrics and the uplifting feel of the track's hazy tone. I was thrilled that the band went for it."Knowing that they often get really involved in the performance side I thought we should challenge them to learn some sweet moves from choreographer Supple Nam, who has a great history of bringing theatricality and levity to his dances. Just look at his work on the Miike Snow promo [for Genghis Khan] by Ninian Doff."Our performers, Majella Fitzgerald and Andrew Lyle-Pinnock [the conductor] come from big tap backgrounds. So we had a lot of fun playing with moves from musicals of 50s Hollywood (White Christmas, Singin’ In The Rain, Let’s Dance...) God, it’s joyful watching dancers move around, exploring ideas, paying homage to Vera Ellen and co. Especially when they’ve got big ol’ Hollywood smiles on. The genre calls for constant smiling, but if I could dance as effortlessly as them (and without wheezing) I’d be smiling too.[imgtoken data:2]<blockquote>We had a ball trying to emulate this era of filmmaking...&nbsp;hard lighting, bright colours and really bumpy camera movements.</blockquote>"All of us behind the camera had a ball trying to emulate this era of filmmaking too. DoP David Wright had all the good ideas on how to capture this. Hard lighting, bright colours and really bumpy camera movements. Apologies to our grip Anthony - I made him loosen up all the tracks every time he’d painstakingly smoothed everything out. I think it looks good though - if you watch some of the tracking shots in Singin’ In The Rain they feel like the camera is being driven round on an ASDA trolley.&nbsp;"The band were unexhaustible. 48 hours before shooting this they had spent a day flying in harnesses for the excellent Right On Time&nbsp;promo by Juliet Casella and Thibaut Ceasar. So they must be awarded with some sort of endurance award. Especially since they aren’t smokers and I had them vaping (nothing toxic) for the pollination shot plates.&nbsp;"I have nothing but thanks to them for trusting the idea and getting stuck in. Same goes for the rest of the team who worked very hard to get this all going six floors up in a central London building with an unapologetically small lift."

United Kingdom

Sam Bailey

Ben Pengilly

Alexa Haywood at Free Agent UK

Just Fred

Natalia Maus

Massimo Filippi

David Wright

Fred Bonham Carter

Alexa Haywood

Benji Smith

Because Music

Zoe Gunn

Supple Nam

Majella Fitzgerald

Steve Wingrove

Jay Whittington

Anthony Ward

Jonny Tully

Fin Sully

Natalie Willis

CHEAT

Indie

Alternative

Rock

Metronomy 'Love Factory' by Sam Bailey

Metronomy-'Love-Factory'-by-Sam-Bailey

A game of grown-up ring-a-roses takes a more sinister aspect in Rob Brandon&#39;s video for his and his brother&#39;s musical alter-ego Model Man.And it becomes clear that this is very much a situation of winner takes all...&nbsp;

Rob Brandon

Ayo Davis

Mahogany Recordings, Kode Media

Mark Murdoch, Nathan Killham, Anna Peftieva

Danny Smith

Dan Stafford-Clark

Brendan Harvey

Julian Lowe

Ollie Richards

Elvire Roux

Joseph Bicknell

Carrie Sutton

Dance

Model Man 'Ketones' by Rob Brandon

Model-Man-'Ketones'-by-Rob-Brandon

In this sleek video&nbsp;for Salt Ashes directed by Lucrecia Taormina, a group of&nbsp;guests at a dinner party gradually lose control of their buttoned-down uptightness, thanks to&nbsp;mysterious green drink and the irresistable rhythms of Go All Out.Taormina brings the lyrics to life using inventive, humorous choreography, beautifully composed scenes and some spooky art direction.

Lucrecia Taormina

Rosie Litterick

FRIEND

Luke Tierney

Claire Stidston

Ben Veasey

Ben Coughlan

Phil Heron

Callum James

Lee Brinkley

Bobbie Cousins

Magdalena Celeste

Amidat Giwa

Meg Thorne

Cut+Run

Ruth Wardell

Electric Theatre Collective

Jamie Neale

Salt Ashes 'Go All Out' by Lucrecia Taormina

Salt-Ashes-'Go-All-Out'-by-Lucrecia-Taormina

Caymanian artist Maeve emerges from the darkness in Stephen Agnew&#39;s stylish video for Empty.Shot by Jack Wilkinson, the stripped back beauty of the song is reflected in the expansive performance in a striking natural cave-like setting.

Stephen Agnew

Nathan Killham

Kode Media

Jack Wilkinson

Arran Green

Beau Pritchard James

Aimee Croysdill

Rebel Post

Toby Tomkins

Ross Anderson

Sasha Moon

Josh Brooks

Maeve 'Empty' by Stephen Agnew

Maeve-'Empty'-by-Stephen-Agnew

An abandoned office in the post-crash financial district becomes the playground of three energetic young&nbsp;thrillseekers&nbsp;in&nbsp;Samuel Taylor&#39;s&nbsp;video for Stealth&#39;s How Much Further.This video snaps out the starting gates with the youthful exuberance of its&nbsp;leads (Bradley Salter, Mike McNeish &amp; Max Jarish) and never really lets up. And with all their energy, these young rebels also start communicating through a mix of sign language and ritualistic movement as a way to avoid the prying ears of our surveillance-obsessed&nbsp;society. It&#39;s an allegory by choreography that&#39;s&nbsp;pulled together with some aplomb&nbsp;by Taylor&#39;s own kinetic edit.

Samuel Taylor

Alex Holberton

Loose Moose Productions

Leah Revivo

Hunter Daly

Rupert Hornstein

Jody Roberts

Ben Skyrme

Jess Barrell

Felicity Davies

Indie, Indie-pop

Stealth 'How Much Further' by Samuel Taylor

Stealth-'How-Much-Further'-by-Samuel-Taylor

Imelda May joins everyday superwomen on a march through Brixton Market in London in this rousing one-shot video directed by Laura Scrivano - her second video for the artist &ndash; for Should&#39;ve Been You.Imelda has explained that she was inspired by the recent Women&rsquo;s March in reaction to Donald Trump becoming&nbsp;US President.&nbsp;&ldquo;I wanted to ask the question &lsquo;who takes care of us?&#39; We are 50% of the world and it&rsquo;s the people in power&rsquo;s responsibility to take care of women as well,&quot; she says.She has also shed her old rockabilly style for a more down-to-earth look while keeping a slightly retro pop sound, and she really makes it work for her here - and she is well supported by a well-cast range&nbsp;of hardworking London&nbsp;women. Scrivano, in her second video for the artist, has done a great job, making something essentially political but also entertaining.&nbsp;Inspirational stuff for a very hummable song.&nbsp; &nbsp;

Laura Scrivano

Rob Jelley

Ben Larthe

Kerry Green

Mary Farbrother

Catharine Brown

Eve Carreno

Jeffrey Michael

Dee Moran

Craig Purves

Lisa Mejuto

Anil Griffin

Edwin Metternich

Framestore

Cynthia Lole

Imelda May 'Should've Been You' by Laura Scrivano

Imelda-May-'Should've-Been-You'-by-Laura-Scrivano

Jake Jelicich&#39;s video for Jack Savoretti is&nbsp;a highly stylised telling&nbsp;of a relationship breakdown, focussing on the emotional pain and&nbsp;claustrophobia created when two people find themselves in&nbsp;confined spaces together, yet worlds apart.

Jake Jelicich

Harriet Towler

Nice & Polite

Jerome Franc

Evelin van Rei

James Hills

Torren Simonsz

Esteban Gimpelewicz

Kat Hawker

Siouxsie Dickens

Nick Peters

Dan Moran

Coffee & TV

Anna Walton

Marisa Garner Associates

Pop, Singer-songwriter

Jack Savoretti 'When We Were Lovers' by Jake Jelicich

Jack-Savoretti-'When-We-Were-Lovers'-by-Jake-Jelicich

Mike Tyler makes the most of the charisma of the members of Hare Squead in this simple performance shoot with colour and distortion effects for If I Ask You.

Mike Tyler

Johnny Blick

MPC Creative

Richard Skinner

Elizabeth Trustrum

Dan Gibling

Jonathan Iles

James Woodmass

Harlon Haveland

Kai Van Beers

Lisa Foo

Sony

Hare Squead 'If I Ask You' by Mike Tyler

Hare-Squead-'"if-I-Ask-You"'-by-Mike-Tyler

A card game with cosmic consequences is at the heart of Jake Jelicich&#39;s stylish video for Blossoms&#39; catchy Charlemagne.

Amy James

Janna Bartlett

Rina Yang

George Nelson

Madeline Roberts

Richard Lewis

Thomas Nicolson

Ben Worthington

Elliot Beach

Joao Janeiro

Rory Harborne

Ryan Paige

Josh Tuckley

Margherita Alairno

Chloe Brady

Kate Sim

Fabianne Calitri

Kim Taylor

East London Studios

Blossoms 'Charlemagne' by Jake Jelicich

Blossoms - Charlemagne

A brilliant foray into the world of 3D and VR here by&nbsp;Debbie Scanlan and Liz Adams, better known as De La Muerte, for Kyla La Grange&#39;s Hummingbird.The video -&nbsp;in which a car, a horse and some dancers occupy the infinite beauty of the feathered cosmos in order to battle through various and sundry existentialist quandaries -&nbsp;is a&nbsp;disorientating swirl of colour and dance that plays with the viewers&#39;&nbsp;perception of time. Look one way and you&#39;ll be mesmerised by slow motion fluid moves, but flip your head 180 degrees and you&#39;ll see a similar looking scene that feels entirely different: played in reverse with choreography designed to feel like a battle.Hats off to De La Muerte - particularly&nbsp;for working so well with a horse in the dark. The payoff comes with some truly epic-looking imagery.

De La Muerte

Mike Heath

Burning Reel

Emily Tongue

Fabienne Calitri

Louise Thomas

Leon Poulton

Visualise

ATC Management

Cal Gordon

Kevin Molloy

Inception

Matthew Shannon

Sophia Georgiou

Jonathan Curran

Mike Bradley

Kyla La Grange 'Hummingbird' (3D/360º) by De La Muerte

Daniel Brereton serves up a surprise for&nbsp;Gorgon City&#39;s team-up with&nbsp;Blythe Pepino from Vaults.&nbsp;For all his&nbsp;experience, he&#39;s not a&nbsp;director well known for narrative work for mainstream dance acts. And this is a narrative video with a familiar storyline, about&nbsp;two teenagers sneaking out for a night on the town together.But Brereton has given this&nbsp;scenario his own distinctive stamp, particularly with the casting of two young leads who have the individuality and&nbsp;chemistry that makes their adventure worth watching. And if&nbsp;he&#39;s a director best known for his quirky work for alternative acts, the quirkiness here just serves to make it more believable and human.&nbsp;

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