Bella Union on the London Eye
I’ve been wanting to be able to post this here for a long time, but it’s been taking FOREVER to get it through the edit suite at work… (this is one of those things you don’t complain about – it’s a luxury problem to have too much to do in our industry).
Anyhow, only a few months after I’d started running the TV side of things for Rockfeedback I got an email from Simon over at Bella Union (you can read his blog at the link) saying that a few of his bands were in town, and would we like to do something. Chatting it through in the office, I flippantly suggested that we film them at the London Eye. The following day I followed up my flippancy with an email. And two weeks later we took all four bands, one-by-one, into a pod on the London Eye, and filmed the proceedings therein.
It was definitely a lesson to me about how relaxed and easy even a comlicated shoot like this one can be, and about a hundred moralistic sentiments (“you don’t get unless you ask”, “there’s no such thing as a stupid idea”, “don’t speak or you’ll be held to what you say” etc etc). It was also *awesome*. We heard songs from and chatted to The Low Anthem, My Latest Novel, Ohbijou and The Acorn. I also learned a neat trick with a couple of mobile phones, courtesy of The Low Anthem, which they show off in beautiful style too. The vid is just below, you’ll spot my mobile phone, and also my Martin guitar, which three of the bands borrowed for their sessions…