Gas&Electric

Director

Tom King

Iranian director Someyah Jafari directs an intimate performance on 16mm from Irish artist Lyra - an abstract piece that explores the push and pull of love.Lyra&rsquo;s Never Let Go has power and emotion and this is brought to life in Jafari&#39;s video&nbsp;by the infusion of strong, passionate, tactile scenes contrasted with more delicate imagery. The result is a&nbsp;raw and powerfully physical music video.

United Kingdom

Someyah Jafari

Alasdair Mitchell

Gas & Electric Ltd.

Joe Ramsden

Matthew Emvin Taylor

Afra Zamara

Samuel Marr

The Quarry

Thomas Mangham

The Mill

Michiel Van Wyngaarden

Richard Grewe

Polydor

Lyra 'Never Let Go' by Someyah Jafari

Lyra-'Never-Let-Go'-by-Someyah-Jafari

Subtle, supernatural elements are balanced by a warm VHS handheld nostalgia, in an intimate portrait of Adam French and his love interest.This is the fourth video collaboration between Adam and Silent Tapes, in which they developed an artful narrative and world where an anthropomorphic orange ultimately comes alive in the human form.

Silent Tapes

Vanessa Mcdonnell

Electric

Kerry Green

Sam Meyer

George Phull

Luke Odgen

Kieran Brown

Anthony Neale

Danielle Everitt

Jax Harney

CHEAT

OB Management

James Hackett

Virginemi

Adam French 'Incompatible' by Silent Tapes

Adam-French-'Incompatible-'-by-Silent-Tapes

Don&#39;t mess with Stefflon Don!Silent Tapes&#39;s video for the intro to Lil Bitch serves as a trailer to the new album Secure. It&#39;s also gripping, brazen, brutal and sexy, as Steff dispatches her haters and rivals with hair-raisingly extreme prejudice. And all the while, she&#39;s wearing an amazing hat that would not look out of place on Ladies Day at Ascot races.&nbsp;So don&#39;t mess with... okay we said that already.

Lloyd Cook

Grace Grey

Grace Grey, Gemma

Lucy Rogers

Stefflon Don 'Lil Bitch' by Silent Tapes

Stefflon-Don-'Lil-Bitch'-by-Silent-Tapes

Silent Tapes&#39;s third video for Adam French takes one evolutionary step in their visual world for the singer-songwriter, moving towards a very dark reality.In fact, it&#39;s nightmarish, as a number of lost souls strungle to survive in the darkness of a brutal city. And throughout, a single, miraculous orange tree on a street corner sheds its fruit.

Murren Tullett

Phil Martin

Zag Erlat

Alex Parkinson

Lee Brinkley

Catiana Becker

Stephanie Lane

Minna Attala

Marianna Mit

Andre Rodrigues

Melissa Geczy

Whitehouse Post

Virgin EMI

Adam French 'You From The Rest' by Silent Tapes

Adam-French-'You-From-The-Rest'-by-Silent-Tapes

MNEK&#39;s Paradise video explores beauty, pain, and makes a powerful statement about police brutality. &nbsp;

Ciaran Lyons

Matt Klemera

James Medcraft

Daniel Deighton

Andy Walton

Xander Mitchell

Claudia Walder

Dennis Okwera

Lisa Foo

Alex Gregory

MNEK 'Paradise' by Ciaran Lyons

Mnek-'Paradise'-by-Ciaran-Lyons

Tom King gives his video for country-folk outfit The Wandering Hearts a touch of the OKGos.As the band play in a converted barn,&nbsp;the wheels and pulleys of a complicated Heath Robinson device goes into action, eventually revealing momentoes of a marriage.

Charlie Herranz

John Watters

Lydia Lewis

Piers Roddy

Luis San Martin

David Nolan

Lulu Plews

Elaine Lynskey

Paul Moth

Claire McGonigal

Final Cut

Cynthia Lole

Decca

Country

Folk

The Wandering Hearts 'Wish I Could' by Tom King

The-Wandering-Hearts-'Wish-I-Could'-by-Tom-King

Once upon a time Tom King flirted briefly with stardom&nbsp;in indie-band&nbsp;Land Of Barbara. Then he got into production and in the past 20 years,&nbsp;Tom has made hundreds of music videos and commercials - constantly shifting roles between directing, producing and exec producing. He&#39;s also MD of&nbsp;Gas&amp;Electric, and now, with G&amp;E&#39;s tenth birthday coming up in June, he&#39;s&nbsp;fostering&nbsp;a slew of new directing talent with a new partnership with OB Management. Originally from Perivale, 45 year old Tom now lives in Wivenhoe in Essex with his wife, two kids and a rabbit &quot;that refuses to age&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Education:&nbsp;Watching late night films on BBC2 on a black and white TV; creating VHS mix tapes from episodes of The Tube;&nbsp;staring out of a car window on a long journey whilst listening to the Beatles White Album;&nbsp;Berkshire College Of Art &amp; Design.Previous occupations:&nbsp;Egg packer, marquee erector, petrol pump attendant, playback operator, computer salesman, band member, strawberry picker, producer, director.<blockquote>Favourite music video of the past 12 months?&nbsp;Joywave&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="https://vimeo.com/119151174" target="_blank">Somebody New</a>&nbsp;by Keith Schofield.</blockquote>Favourite video of all time?&nbsp;Too many but these have to be amongst the favourites: Foo Fighters&#39;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VQ_3sBZEm0" target="_blank">Learn To Fly</a>; Duck Sauce&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="https://vimeo.com/60088176" target="_blank">Big Bad Wolf</a>.Favourite publications/websites:&nbsp;Not strictly either but whilst shooting in Sweden on an early call time I tuned into the shipping forecast on Radio 4. The perfect oasis of calm in a mad world.Favourite food/restaurant:&nbsp;The Hawksmoor for a proper steak &amp; Malbec feast;&nbsp;Rick Stein&#39;s seafood restaurant in Cornwall; my wife&#39;s lasagna &ndash; unbeatable.Favourite drink/drug:&nbsp;16 year old&nbsp;Langavulin, neat and double, preferably sat in a whisky chair next to a proper open fire.Last movie you saw (and was it any good)?&nbsp;Supermensh. I know its not a feature film, but it&#39;s a fantastic lesson in energetic documentary making by Mike Myers.Favourite directors:&nbsp;Keith Schofield, Robert Altman, Scorsese, Spielberg, David Lynch, Spike Jonze.Last gig you went to (and was it any good)?&nbsp;Sadly too long ago. Bob Dylan at the Albert Hall. An extortionate ticket price but well worth the history (if he never plays there again).<blockquote>What was the first music video you worked on - and what were you doing on that job?&nbsp;A Ruby Turner video circa 1995. I was a runner, and overslept after a gig with my band and arrived at the shoot very late. A lesson I shall never forget.</blockquote>Favourite bands/artists:&nbsp;I heard ELO were reforming &ndash; is it true?&nbsp;At the moment &ndash; Charlatans, War On Drugs, Barr Brothers. Yesterday &ndash; Nick Drake, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Queen, Bowie.Currently reading/favourite book:&nbsp;Hegarty on Advertising. Try and read it every month.Favourite job of the past 12 months:&nbsp;Headless TV campaign for agency SellSell. Great script, proper budget, great agency, client and crew.<blockquote>What&rsquo;s the next Big Thing you&rsquo;re working on?&nbsp;Setting up a memorable tenth year of Gas &amp; Electric.&nbsp;We&#39;re celebrating 10 years of G&amp;E in June.</blockquote>I set up Gas&amp;Electric in 2005 to create a melting pot of creativity. Diversity across genres and disciplines is key. Over that time have steered a firm course through one recession, shrinking budgets and technology changes, and have moved into directing and producing content and commercials.What would most improve your life?&nbsp;A camera that floats and small enough that it can go anywhere; good scripts; the William Hill bookmakers below our office to be converted to a fine eating establishment; more time, money, peace and understanding; and the shipping forecast to be piped through tannoys everywhere.<blockquote>Best moment, or fondest memory, of your career thus far?&nbsp;Trying to direct an actor who was wearing a mask to pretend he didn&rsquo;t have a mouth whilst trying to eat a sausage.</blockquote>Worst moment?&nbsp;The time wasted directing shitty dance videos. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.What&rsquo;s the big issue or issues facing music video makers right now?&nbsp;Apart from the blindingly obvious fact that labels and agencies undervalue the craft of filmmaking and insist on a Rolls Royce but are only prepared to pay for a Mini, it&#39;s&hellip;&nbsp;freedom to be creative and not conformist.Person you most admire?&nbsp;Video directors everywhere for their constant determination to achieve great results whilst fitting square pegs in round holes.&nbsp;Additionally my family for keeping me sane.&nbsp;Professionally, Tommy Cooper and The Two Ronnies.What advice would you give to someone starting out in music video production?&nbsp;Be patient, be yourself, listen to advice, be strong, expect it to go wrong, be prepared, write a shot list, remember the shot list, change the shot list, sleep well, be bold, eat well, take a deep breath, press record.Any hot tips on who will be the future stars in music video in the next couple of years &ndash; directors or otherwise?&nbsp;The drone director.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

The Questionnaire: Tom King

Crystal Fighters&#39; Love Natural is featured on the FIFA 14 videogame, but the track&#39;s new video by&nbsp;Monatomi - that&#39;s the partnership of&nbsp;Duncan Christie and Ben Perry, up-and-comers&nbsp;who&#39;s previous work includes a music video for Echo Lake&#39;s Another Day, and&nbsp;have recently signed to Armoury London &ndash; shows there&#39;s lots of fun to be had well away from a football pitch.The focus is a young boy (played by Jude Campbell) who is utterly seduced and smitten by the joie d&#39;vivre of two older girls (played by Megan Heaton Harris and Alice Chang). These girls&nbsp;are up for some serious&nbsp;high jinx around town.&nbsp;But there&#39;s a satisfying twist here too, as the girls are revealed not to be all they seem.&nbsp;And the boy&#39;s rose-tinted&nbsp;infatuation turns to horror as reality bites...

Monatomi

Clare Gibson

John Lee

Armoury London

Jabez Bartlett

Alice Cheng, Megan Harris

Jude Campbell

Giant Men Management

Crystal Fighters  'Love Natural ' by Monatomi (Duncan Christie And Ben Perry)

Crystal-Fighters--'Love-Natural-'-by-Monatomi-(duncan-Christie-And-Ben-Perry)

Michael Baldwin slips over to the States to direct this fun, playful piece for Olly Murs' single Troublemaker. 
Racking up almost 7 million hits on Youtube and currently sitting pretty at No. 1 in the UK chart, the promo is set in surburban Los Angeles, with a Miami shot performance from guest vocalist Flo Rida. 
Baldwin brings his strong character-driven directing style to bear with an energetic and humour-filled narrative complimenting Olly's cheeky performance.

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=4aQDOUbErNg

Michael Baldwin

Sarah Tognazzi

Eli Born

John Holloway

Debs Ramsey @ Y

Mike O'Keefe, Lisa Foo

Portobello Post

Olly Murs 'Troublemaker' by Michael Baldwin

Olly-Murs-'Troublemaker'-by-Michael-Baldwin

Mike Baldwin delves deep into his box of tricks and pulls out a conceptual piece of work for Scottish rock band Twin Atlantic's Yes I Was Drunk.
Shot around Glasgow's Queens Park district featuring a cast of characters flying through the air in slow-motion, the promo echoes the introspecitve melancholy in the songs lyrics and instrumentation.
"This is the sense I first got from hearing the song - a kind of beautiful melancholy," says Mike about his Twin Atlantic clip. "People who are stuck in a moment with time deliberately stretched over the course of the promo."

Scott Clark

Ben Todd

Carol

Roz Walker

UNIT

Jill Kaplan

Twin Atlantic 'Yes I Was Drunk' by Mike Baldwin

Twin-Atlantic-'Yes-I-Was-Drunk'-by-Mike-Baldwin

"It was important to me and Fazer to bring in a fashion element into a pop/rappers world," explains JaK. "I took Fazer's initial concept and styled it into a Sin City, Bladerunner visual as I wanted to show the world the crazy Fazer. We shot in a disused military hospital in Portsmouth which still had a padded cell which set the mood perfectly."
The dark fashion vibe in the Killer video was styled by Tom Erebout and shot with precision by cinematographer Dan Stafford Clark.

Jak FrSH

Dan Stafford Clark

Oliver Kester

Tom Eerebout

Simona Harrison

Debs Ramsey

Fazer 'Killer' by JaK FrSH

Fazer-'Killer'-by-JaK-FrSH

King Charles invites a cast of over 50 from his own fan-base to take part in Tom King's promo for new single Lady Percy.
The video sees King Charles singing to a painting of the mysterious 'Lady Percy' character, who is based on the real-life Lady Percy herself. The video plays out like a dream-like ode to this woman (possible love interest) who never comes to his concerts.
Set amongst the faded grandeur of an abandoned chapel in Peckham, the adventurous promo was shot in one day...

Joe Dyer

Ray Cook

Steve Wingrove

Lucy Sanderson

Chris Scott

King Charles 'Lady Percy' by Tom King

Mike Baldwin has directed his first promo through G&amp;E, and it&#39;s a simple yet striking and classy showcase for Melanie C&#39;s strong comeback single Weak.Mike captures Melanie as a woman in torment in intimate surroundings - part performance, part videotape confession - integrated with powerful choreography of dancers Bethany Rose Harrison and Shane Collard.And Melanie clearly managed to lure her favourite commissioner back into action...

Steve Annis

Rawden Defresnes

Sy Turnbull

Ahmet Husseyin

Sophie Baggeley

Thomas Grove Carter

Aubrey Woodiwiss

Carole Burton

Yi London / Debs Ramsey

Jess Clark

Melanie C 'Weak' by Michael Baldwin

The video for the track Ken! penned by Harry Hill sees Bill Roache aka Ken Barlow play a cowboy in a spaghetti western pastiche.&quot;I knew this was the venue to shoot in after seeing a plaster cast Indian Chief in a local shop window directing me fatefully towards the Lamb Hotel&quot; explains Tom.&quot;Sadly I couldn&#39;t fit the singing moose in but I did manage to persuade Harry to ride a bucking bronco and Bill to dress as a cowboy. Things did get a little strange for Bill as we pulled out two bar stools onto the high street pavement and asked him to pretend to ride through the Arizona plains whilst being eyed by Corrie enthusiasts. To his credit he didn&#39;t grumble. Bravo Bill. He acted the part so well we are thinking about the possibility of Ken! The movie!&quot;Watch: <a href="http://www.gasandelectric.co.uk/content/client_tvcs/client150/" target="_blank">here</a>

Douglas Pye

Leah Archer

Sarah Jenneson

Ned@ Smoke&Mirrors

debs@yilondon.com

Mike Mooney

Harry Hill’s Ken! by Tom King

Harry Hill launches into the world of pop and unleashes this tale of chaviness with a suitably cheeky promo from Tom King. 
"It's by far the most ridiculous and enjoyable shoot I've been involved with" explains King. "Harry was a real pleasure to work with and we discovered a fantastic new star in Sharon Rooney who plays the lead. If only all videos could be this much fun!"

Simon

Alex Emslie

Mike Moony

Harry Hill’s I Want A Baby by Tom King

Watch: <a href="http://www.gasandelectric.co.uk/content/client_tvcs/client127/" target="_blank">here</a>

Charlie Clark

Carrie

Naomi Gray

Vid Price

Ned Al-Astrabadi

CJ Hassey

Alex Guadino’s I’m In Love by Tom King

Paul Mackay

Lewis Arnold

Robert Morrison

James Tillett

Andy Pritchard

Prime Focus

Kids In Glass Houses’ Undercover Lover by Tom King

"The band were keen to deliver a real performance with a twist, so we went all out to deliver a highly visual and honest band performance with a narrative that would engage their audience," says Tom. "It's a fantastic cinematic result and probably the most hectic shoot day of my life! A massive thanks to all involved."

George Nelson

Oliver Clark

Ana Viana

Janine Eveson

Bradley Josiah

Simone Grattarola

David Pascalo

Kids In Glass Houses’ Matters At All by Tom King

Watch: <a href="http://www.gasandelectric.co.uk/content/client_tvcs/client71/" target="_blank">here</a>

Marcus Domleo

Alaric Holberton

Ministry Of Sound Running Trax TVC by Tom King/Gas&Electric

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