Lots of people have thought about who’ll be in attendance at their final farewell - old loves, or even worst enemies - and felt the existential quandary that comes with realising that (depending on your beliefs) there’s no way you can be there to experience it.But what if you could? Callum Lloyd-James's video for Liverpool rock outfit Crawlers answers that very question.In this darkly comic promo for the band's Would You Come To My Funeral?, a funeral descends into chaos, terror and excitement, when the deceased returns to life to settle some scores. “The track and video focus on the concept of whether you’d go to the funeral of an ex-lover, someone you’d once been so close to but now hate, and if you did go how would they react,” explains Lloyd-James.“Once we had that idea nailed down it was such a fun world to explore, looking at the emotional dilemmas of each character, developing the action and how the crowd react to it.“Ultimately though, this was all a big excuse to have a massive punch up in a church, which you don’t get to do every day.”
Ndella Longley - 9th Oct 2023