Ben Reed matches Blur in full-on Britpop mode with the Phoenix Fly Line Dancing Group Of San Francisco, in his very charming promo for Lonesome Street, from the band's new album The Magic Whip. Ben's ability to find interesting and surprising imagery to bond with the track at hand is much in evidence in a video which starts with a single performer - Philip from the aforementioned San Francisco-based fitness class - and his boombox, eventually joined by a female partner, and finally backed by a whole gymnasium of Chinese line dancers. A meeting of East and West that works delightfully...
Cat Velez - 7th Apr 2015