I’ve written a lot of songs recently and I played them to a friend who said, “You haven’t written a song about a cat – I think people would expect at least a token kitten song.”
I couldn’t bring myself to write some crap about “woo yay kittens” just to get some people on the internet to like it so I thought I’d try and write something true about our own cat Rocky. He’s extremely violet and a mixed blessing. Generally people go “aww Rocky” stroke him for a minute and then he brutally savages them and that’s that.
The video contains a shot of what is known locally as Suicide Bridge – a legendary bridge in Archway which people occasionally throw themselves off – I popped up there to get the shot on the pretence of buying lunch. My father grew up nearby and claims to have witnessed a girl jump off in the 50s but he does like a story.
Wrote a song the other day – I started with a simple idea – do a nostalgia list about the 90s. When I came to record it I had a gap for more lyrics and found myself improvising and it took another direction.
The video was recorded by walking around my flat with a stills camera and a copy of the lyrics – I photographed anything relevant then edited it together. My little rule I set myself was that I couldn’t leave the house and everything had to be shot via my camera. So for lines I was stuck for visuals I photographed some websites.
I was asked to produce the IT Crowd game to help promote the wonderful TV series by the god of twitter that is @glinner. I brought in Matt Round to do the heavy lifting and he did a fine, fine job.
During the production I drew a number of animated gifs to serve as end level things – basically to increase the references to internet culture within the game. Thought I’d post them up here because I’m sort of proud of how crap they are.
