This was at Brixton Academy and it was a LOT – lots of big characters bossing themselves about, lots of heated conversations with management, lots of last minute changes but we managed to somehow pull this together. I won’t lie, I didn’t much enjoy setting this up.
We weren’t allowed to meet or speak to Lana Del Rey for this and her management were happy for us to create these live performance films of her show at Manchester Apollo but we had to use her choice of production company. So that meant I had to do a lot more work. For some…
I’ve interviewed Nile Rodgers three or four times and every time he’s been a really nice guy. For this, unbeknownst to us until after, he hadn’t really slept as he’d had to have a health check up over night between travelling from Sheffield to The O2. But he was full of good spirits and let…
Guy’s got a massive drum and he’s not afraid to use it. Again, in my role for O2 Academy TV I arranged this live filming. This was shot at Brixton Academy.
I set up this live filming of Ellie Goulding’s first time playing Brixton Academy for O2 Academy TV – she was really nervous.
Shot up at the Manchester Apollo, Paloma gave us so much of her time to create these films. She even came back on stage after the show and the crowd had left because she thought a lighting cue had been missed and she wanted us to reshoot it. As the crowd had left it meant…
This was a huge shoot. It was at The O2 and I think we had 17 cameras around the place shooting. It took a couple of months to set up and I had to deal with the lawyers from Sony Music, Live Nation and The O2 – it got pretty stressful to make sure everyone…
