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 MoreI was out for my late-night walk one night, and I flicked open Twitter to get rid of whatever notification was bugging me at the time.
The first tweet I saw was this;
REST IN POWER Jordan Alexander Groggs a loving father, life partner and friend. (6/1/1988-6/29/2020)
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 MoreTa-da!
The initial idea came from a self-made video I saw by Francis and the Lights, where Francis had just self-made his video by throwing on the flashlight on his phone and recording his silhouette as he sang the song.
I showed that little thing to Adée, she dug it and we started trying to add to it on her final night in Cardiff before having to leave to head back to Sweden the following morning.
Read MoreOne-shot. Black and White. Slow-motion. That’s the whole thing.
Adée had a rough concept of what she wanted the video to be about; she wanted to talk about her sexuality and how people have just assumed the gaps in her personality that they don’t know about her.
People aren’t just black and white.
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