Noel Gallagher High Flying Birds 'Blue Moon Rising' by Dan Cadan & Jonathan 'Scully' Mowatt
David Knight - 3rd Feb 2020
In their fourth collaboration with Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Dan Cadan and Jonathan 'Scully' Mowatt deliver a richly atmospheric setpiece starring Jack O'Connell. In fact, the video for Blue Moon Rising feels like part of a bigger narrative - a gangster movie, also featuring Noel himself as the head of this particular family business.
While Noel is in the back office, discussing serious matters with his associates, O'Connell appears as a more fun-loving guy - rather worse for wear, and lured onto the dancefloor of a deserted club by a mystery woman, played by Gala Gordon. All the while they are observed by another, more serious young man (James Nelson Joyce).
It's a very cinematic scenario, with some electric chemistry between O'Connell and Gordon, well-paced to work with the track. It's also a video that does that rare thing of putting Noel Gallagher's brooding charisma to good use. By the end you want to know more about this set of characters, and the relationship between them.
David Knight - 3rd Feb 2020
Credits
Production/Creative
- Director
- Dan Cadan
- Director
- Jonathan Mowatt
- Producer
- Ayo Davis
- Production Company
- Rankin Creative
- Production Company
- Rankin Film
- Executive Producer
- HB
- Production Manager
- Louise Flood
Art
- Art Director
- Russell De Rozario
Wardrobe
- Make-up
- Mel Szabo
Casting
- Lead actor
- Jack O'Connell
- Lead actor
- Gala Gordon
- Lead actor
- James Nelson Joyce
Editorial
- Editor
- Graham Hector
Misc
- 2nd AD
- Ben Keswick
Other credits
Set Dresser
Lou Vogel
Art Assistant
Oskar De Rozario
Assistant Hair
Christine Bateman
David Knight - 3rd Feb 2020