{"id":18,"date":"2010-11-22T20:17:48","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T20:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/?p=18"},"modified":"2010-11-26T12:03:17","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T12:03:17","slug":"licking-toads-with-thomas-dolby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/2010\/11\/22\/licking-toads-with-thomas-dolby\/","title":{"rendered":"Licking Toads with Thomas Dolby."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5SuZMwe-XRc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>A few months ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasdolby.com\">Thomas Dolby<\/a> invited me to direct his first music video of the 21st century!<\/p>\n<p>The track, entitled \u2018The Toadlickers\u2019, 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.<\/p>\n<p>Given the song\u2019s banjo \u2018n\u2019 fiddle heavy roots Americana, some might see it as something of a radical departure for him, but I beg to differ! Infectious melodies&#8230;surreal humour&#8230;mad scientists&#8230;impeccable production&#8230;it\u2019s classic Dolby!<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019ll be posting more about this soon. In the meantime&#8230;enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, Thomas Dolby invited me to direct his first music video of the 21st century! The track, entitled \u2018The Toadlickers\u2019, 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\u2019s banjo &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/2010\/11\/22\/licking-toads-with-thomas-dolby\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Licking Toads with Thomas Dolby.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[626,627,12,10,11,623,14,8,15,9,625,624],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-videos","category-uncategorized","tag-burlesque","tag-canon-5d","tag-drugs","tag-humor","tag-humour","tag-music-videos","tag-naughty-barnyard-animals","tag-parkour","tag-prince-charles","tag-puppets","tag-the-toadlickers","tag-thomas-dolby"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1cZYU-i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5368,"url":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/2018\/02\/25\/london-worldwide-comedy-short-film-festival\/","url_meta":{"origin":18,"position":0},"title":"London-Worldwide Comedy Short Film Festival","author":"Paul D","date":"February 25, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"This just in from the Director of the London-Worldwide Comedy Short Film Festival, regarding 'The Toadlickers' music video I directed for Thomas Dolby: \u00a0\"Our judges thought your film had many admirable qualities so we have awarded it an \"Honourable Mention\".","rel":"","context":"In &quot;80s&quot;","block_context":{"text":"80s","link":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/category\/80s\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/HONOURABLEMENTION-BLACK-London-WorldwideComedyShortFilmFestival-Spring20182-1.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/HONOURABLEMENTION-BLACK-London-WorldwideComedyShortFilmFestival-Spring20182-1.png?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/HONOURABLEMENTION-BLACK-London-WorldwideComedyShortFilmFestival-Spring20182-1.png?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/HONOURABLEMENTION-BLACK-London-WorldwideComedyShortFilmFestival-Spring20182-1.png?resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/HONOURABLEMENTION-BLACK-London-WorldwideComedyShortFilmFestival-Spring20182-1.png?resize=1050%2C600 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/HONOURABLEMENTION-BLACK-London-WorldwideComedyShortFilmFestival-Spring20182-1.png?resize=1400%2C800 4x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paul-d.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}