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Shove It.
Coltrane. Coleman ....Coe.
'Shove It' tells the story of legendary Leeds jazz saxophonist Matthew Coe, aka Xero Slingsby and his band The Works.
From the streets of West Yorkshire (and over 40 arrests for busking) to the hottest jazz bars of Europe, Coe defined the anarchic jazz punk scene of the 1980s - winning Battle of the Bands even after treatment for the brain tumour which would ultimately claim his life at just 30 years of age.
Featuring Matthew's widow Sally Coe and the remaining members of the band Louis Colan and Gene Velocette, 'Shove It' combines archive material, including some never seen before concert footage and behind the scenes Super8, with insights and of those who knew, loved, were inspired by and are still inspired by Xero Slingsby nearly 35 years after his death.
‘Shove It’ premiered to a sell-out audience at Leeds International Film Festival in November 2022, and has since screened across Tyneside as part of the North East International Film Festival, in Belgium during Ghent’s Everything UK festival; the Northampton Film Festival, Leeds Jazz and Stroud Jazz festivals, and screened as part of Brighton Rocks International Film Festival during summer 2023.
The trailer for ‘Shove It’.
A short selection of clips from the feature-length film. For a screener of the full film please drop me a line.
Connect.
A cinema ad for South Australia Tourism promoting the 3000km road trip across the red centre, from Adelaide to Darwin. Filmed in real time (the trip took just under three weeks, with diversions to Uluru, King’s Canyon and Kakadu National Park), this 60 second cinema spot formed the core of a multi-layered campaign that included digital, editorial and social, and won Campaign of the Year at the Travel Marketing Awards 2015.
Document.
My grandfather was a cooper. Joseph Crampton, born in 1899, made casks for Bass, Bulmers and other breweries, between 1921 and his retirement in 1965. When he died in 1977, we found a pile of yellowed documents and papers among his possessions: he had started to write about his life as a cooper, with anecdotes and impressions of the people in the cooperage, and had gone in to detail about his profession, complete with delicate line-drawings of tools and techniques. He had seen his craft as a dying art and had tried to preserve it.
Joe never finished his story. Now here I am - trying to do that for him, in a way. A few years ago I asked one of the UK’s last master coopers, Alastair Simms, to go through the things Joe had left – old coopering tool catalogues and newspaper clippings, and those yellowed pages, and I asked him about his life as a cooper and the tools he used that my grandfather had written about.
I love this little film. It’s a document to my grandad. And to the vanishing art of the cooper.
Move the story on.
After ten years of being The Slow Holiday People, a concept and campaign I created and ran, Inntravel asked me to develop a new customer-facing story to tell. Launched in 2020, the new line ‘Take yourself away from the everyday’ builds on the success of all things Slow, moving the story into a more active, inspirational and ‘open’ message to attract those customers the Slow message failed to reach.
Stand out.
I’ve worked with Graham West Salons creating film and photography for the brand since 2014. Graham’s brief is always to give a sense of the people who make these innovative salons what they are – calm, caring and creative.
Also showing...
To see some of my other lovely work, including promos for Lily’s Kitchen, HF Holidays and the award winning film for Guinness, just click on the thumbs below.
