Motion City Soundtrack was pretty influential on my teenage years. I came across them after Mark Hoppus mentioned them on his podcast because he was producing their latest album at the time, then I went down the rabbit hole and got obsessed.
As I’ve grown up, the music has matured with me, my musical taste has gone in a different direction to what it was ten years ago, but whenever I catch wind of MCS, I’m checking out whatever the news is straight away!
Read MoreWay back in pre-COVID life, LDN Features collaborated with RAT Stands in support of the release of their product, the DrumDeck.
LDN was between series at the time - we were almost done with filming Series 03, and had just wrapped up releasing Second Press - our covers series. But the plan was to shoot this “special edition”, drop it before Series 03 as a way of introducing the changes we’d made behind the scenes.
Read MoreI met Tim, Saint Eden’s manager, whilst on tour with Sarah Darling earlier in the year. He’d got me involved with some other projects in the year for other artists, but I was pretty amped for this; a new band, looking for visuals that would help establish them as they launch themselves!
Read More“Hey, I have this idea for something I wanna try out at Brighton,”
“Okay, cool!”
That’s pretty much how this video came about.
I’d been thinking about the idea of an EPK (Electronic Press Kit) video being something more experimental than just a self-indulgent trailer. I feel like it should be individual to the artist. Really encapsulate them visually, mentally, and audibly.
Read MoreOne day, last summer, I got a DM from Jade. Out of the blue, she said she really liked the tour stuff I’d been producing for Sarah Darling and was wondering if I’d be up for documenting her performance at Nashville Meets London.
It was hard to say no, when she’d asked so politely. Especially after talking on the phone to her the night before and seeing how easygoing she was about the whole thing.
So, I got out of bed early one morning, after signing a lot of intimidating paperwork from the people of Canary Wharf promising them I wasn’t going to be a moron, and headed in to the event.
Turns out, NML is a pretty big deal - which explained the paperwork.
Read MoreI met Amy a few years ago at a Discovery 2 gig that she performed at. To be honest, I didn’t even meet her there, I messaged her a few weeks later when I was listening to her SoundCloud and editing a video of Amy at that gig.
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