I can reveal that the music video I shot recently was for a new artist signed to Island Records called Kid Adrift. I played one of his tracks when I covered for Rob Da Bank on Radio One at the start of the year and have really been into everything I’ve heard from him since then. He is a very unique and hard to categorise artist, a singer/songwriter with a brooding electronic edge. And very cinematic, so totally up my street. I was amazed and overjoyed that his management and label were so into the idea I came up with for it. As is always the case with these things, time was of the essence and I sprang in to action, pulling together a great team of people for the production.
It was such a good thing that the first location I found was ultimately unusable, as looking back on it now the shoot would have been almost impossible in such a tough location with no electricity or running water or even somewhere to sit that wasn’t covered in glass. The second location turned out to be more than perfect in the end. We had to fit a lot in to just two days of shooting and I can’t thank the cast and crew enough. They all worked so hard and didn’t complain about the less than glamourous conditions once. And when the shoot ran on into the night and we all started getting a bit delirious, they just soldiered on and got the job done.
I’m in the latter stages of editing right now and so far the response from those who have seen it has been very promising. I’m really excited to get this video finished and put it out there for everyone to see. I’ll post more pics from the shoot after the video is unveiled (should be very soon), the ones I’ve included here purposefully keep things about the content of the video vague as I am trying to avoid spoilers. Click for larger pics.
Jiajia Lika Wu gets ready for her closeup.
Joe, Nathan and the jib.
My old pal Dave Shaw looks on with understandable trepidation at what I had prepared for him. The wonderful makeup lady Nel Bat stands by with the props.
Their expressions would make perfect sense if you knew what I was doing just out of frame.
Caught on camera.
Brilliant Director of Photography Nathan Mackintosh with the fully tricked out Canon 7D.
All pictures courtesy of Rob the runner and set photographer, he was indispensable!
Tags: Kid Adrift, Music Video
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Can;t wait to see this man, I’m curious to see how your ideas come to life.
Not to be rude man but when the fuck are you playing Belfast? I just saw DJ Shadow and he finished with 15 minutes of Liquid. The place was going ballistic. It’s the only DnB we’ve had in years. We love it
Intriguing, looking forward to seeing how this all going to turn out.
Great video, Im a member of a motion design studio in cardiff, if you need any thing doing on your new film then let us know, all I ask as payment is to get my mits on the Kubrik minimix you did, my tape bust before I could digitise it and Im gutted… and that’s serious