The Videos - Blood, Sweat and Tears

For the Blood, Sweat and Tears video I wanted to try and emulate some of the shadowplay of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and other related films from the 1920s, but without any actual cinematic knowledge or lighting, that was clearly never going to happen.

The semaphore ("blood", "sweat" and "tears", depending on the chorus) obviously comes from the single artwork, and the handwritten lyrics just seemed to make a nice addition, even if I messed them up a bit in the middle. You can also probably see that apparently I hold pencils in a very strange way.

The video also stars my friend's cat Blue, who can be seen performing his typical act of running manically out of the room without warning. He died a few months after the single came out, which is rather sad, because crazy though he was sometimes, he was a very friendly cat.

The Videos - Golden Wheel

Sappy's video for Golden Wheel is pretty much the reason that the Blood, Sweat and Tears single came out when it did, and for that we should be grateful. It mixes from footage of me singing Here Comes the Summertime through to some rather raunchy posturing by a lady in a way that I do find a little bit disturbing, but I really like the 3D footage in the background.

The person running manically in the top left corner is a great addition, too...

The Videos - False Dawn

For our second video I wanted to put together a travelogue with all my sunset photos in it, and I think it works quite well, but pretty much nobody has ever watched it, so obviously it only really works for me.

Getting the photos in sync with the beats proved to be pretty much impossible, as the software that I was using didn't really have that capability.

You might recognise several images from the Dusk sleeve sessions.