Nominated for 2 Webby Awards!

Breaking News – ‘The Toadlickers‘ music video that I directed and produced for Thomas Dolby last year has just been nominated for not one, but two Webby Awards!

The Webby’s are The Oscars of the web, so this is quite a big deal!

The Toadlickers is one of five music videos nominated in the ONLINE FILM & VIDEO > MUSIC category of The Webby People’s Voice Award.
You can vote for your favourite here.

The Making of Thomas Dolby’s The Toadlickers – Part 2

With our first shoot complete, the next step was to get the relevant footage to (evil) puppet master Mike Quinn, in The States. Mike is one of the best in the biz, having worked on everything from The Muppets to the Star Wars series (in which he played Nien Nunb) and thanks to his enthusiasm, passion and commitment, what had started off life as an idea for a horse singing ‘do-si-do’, had quickly snowballed into a mini puppet epic. Continue reading “The Making of Thomas Dolby’s The Toadlickers – Part 2”

The Making of Thomas Dolby’s The Toadlickers – Part 1

If one was asked to sum up Thomas Dolby’s musical career in three words, ‘expect the unexpected’ might be good ones. Though perhaps best known as one of the early pioneers of Electronica, he’s worked across a multitude of genres, with a long list of big names, both as artist and producer, so I guess that when he sent me the rough mix of ‘The Toadlickers’, to see if I’d be interested in directing the music video, I shouldn’t have been surprised by its ‘brand new mash of Bluegrass and Techno’…but I was (very pleasantly I might add) and leapt, as it were, at the opportunity. Continue reading “The Making of Thomas Dolby’s The Toadlickers – Part 1”

Licking Toads with Thomas Dolby.

A few months ago, Thomas Dolby invited me to direct his first music video of the 21st century!

The track, entitled ‘The Toadlickers’, is about a group of scientists who live in the hills of Snowdonia, get high licking toads, get the munchies and come out at night to raid sweetshops.

Given the song’s banjo ‘n’ fiddle heavy roots Americana, some might see it as something of a radical departure for him, but I beg to differ! Infectious melodies…surreal humour…mad scientists…impeccable production…it’s classic Dolby!

Since Thomas has always had a penchant for pushing the envelope, it seemed only fitting to shoot the video with the latest cutting edge technology, which is why I chose Canon EOS 5D Mark IIs. I’ll be posting more about this soon. In the meantime…enjoy!

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