Music Pilgrimages - Video

Video - Run Runaway

Video - Violet Hill

Mount Etna is an active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, among other locations it was used for the music video for the Coldplay track Violet Hill.

Video - D�You know what I mean

Beckton Gas Works was a enormous London gas works built to manufacture coal gas and other products including coke from coal, it operated during the years 1870 to 1969. It was located in East Ham on the north bank of the Thames.

In 1997 the Beckton Gas Works was used for the filming of Oasis music video for D'You know what I mean, from the album Be Here Now.

The Gas Works has also been the location of many films, the opening sequence of the 1981 James Bond movie For Your Eyes Only was filmed here. In 1986 it was used in the film Biggles: Adventures in Time.

One of the most famous scenes to have been filmed here was a sequence out of Full Metal Jacket, director Stanley Kubrick had the gas works transformed to look like the Vietnamese city of Huê where the end scenes of the film takes place.

The site has gradually been developed and bisected by roads ant today only a small area of waste tip and some gas holders remain. Parts of the site now hold an industrial estate, th Beckton Retail Park, the Gallions Reach Shopping Park and a Docklands Light Railway depot.

Video - Firestarter

Aldwych tube station is a closed station formerly on the Piccadilly Line of the London Underground. It is surrounded on either side by the buildings of King's College London. It was the terminus of a short branch from Holborn, and closed on 30 September 1994. Its well-preserved interior has made it a popular location for design work and filming.

The video for 'Firestarter' by The Prodigy was filmed here. Another music video that was also filmed here was 'Waste A Moment' by FightStar.

Video - Baggy Trousers

The music video of this song was shot in Kentish Town Church of England school in Kentish Town, Islington in North London. Nearby housing block "The Forties" is where one of the band members grew up.
Also used in the video is a pub at the beginning of the street called the Oxford.

The band's saxophone player, Lee Thompson decided he wanted to fly through the air for his solo, with the use of wires hanging from a crane. The resulting shot is one of the most popular of any Madness music videos.

Video - Stand and Deliver

Hatfield House is a country house set in a large park, Hatfield Park, on the eastern side of the town of Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England. The present Jacobean house was built in 1611 by Robert Cecil, First Earl of Salisbury and Chief Minister to King James I and has been the home of the Cecil family ever since. The house is open to the public.

Thanks to it's British atmosphere and architecture, including the size of the manor and it's park it has been used as a filming location in a number of different films. Elizabeth the Golden Age, Cromwell, The Avengers, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Orland, Batman, Batman Returns, The New World, Shakespeare in Love, the Lara Croft movies, have all had scenes filmed at Hatfield House.

It was perhaps because of this atmosphere Adam & The Ants chose to film the video for Stand and Deliver at Hatfield house. Stand and Deliver was Adam & the Ants' most successful single. It entered the UK Top 40 at Number One and stayed there for five weeks. The song's video features Adam Ant dressed as a "dandy highwayman" who when captured, manages to escape the gallows with the help of his friends (the other band members). The video's opening sequence of Adam Ant putting on his make-up before going out on a robbery became a defining visual image for Adam Ant in the years that followed. The video also featured an early appearance by Amanda Donohoe who was Adam's girlfriend at the time.

The phrase "stand and deliver - your money or your life" was commonly used by highwaymen in eighteenth century England during robberies.

Video - Bittersweet Symphony

Hoxton is an area in the London Borough of Hackney, immediately north of the financial district of the City of London. The area of Hoxton is bordered by Old Street to the south, City Road to the west, Regents Canal on the north side and Kingsland Road on the east.

The area was used in 1997 for the filming of the video for the track Bittersweet Symphony by the Verve, the video features Richard Ashcroft walking along Hoxton Street bumping into people seemingly oblivious to their presence.

The starting point of the video is 94 Hoxton Street, the Golden Fried Chicken restaurant at the corner of the intersection between Hoxton Street and Falkirk Street. Richard Ashcroft walks along Hoxton Street with few continuity errors. This video was shot during the course of two days due to a man, not knowing it was a video, attacking Ashcroft after he bumped into him on the first day, extras were therefore used during the second day of filming. The end of the video leads into the beginning of the video for "The Drugs Don't Work". The video has often been thought to have been inspired by the video for "Unfinished Sympathy" by Massive Attack.

The area looks much the same in the present-day, Hoxton street market being a lively market on Saturdays.

Video - Songbird

Regent's Park (official name The Regent's Park) is one of the Royal Parks of London. It is in the northern part of central London partly in the City of Westminster and partly in the London Borough of Camden.

The video for the single Songbird was recorded at Regent's Park, the video features Liam Gallagher walking in the park, playing guitar under a tree and playing with a dog. The track is considered a breakthrough for Liams songwriting, and was dedicated to his girlfriend Nicole Appleton.

Video - Lazy Sunday Afternoon

Havering street is a street in Stepney in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, which forms part of the East End of London.

The track 'Lazy Sunday Afternoon' from 1968 was Inspired by Steve Marriott’s constant feuds with his neighbours when he lived in Princes Gardens in Kensington. He rented two flats in the block under the alias of Fred Smith, he was evicted from both of them.

A promotional music video was made for Lazy Sunday Afternoon, it was filmed at Kenney Jones's parents house in Havering street in Stepney, in the East end of London. The sequence where a woman (the next-door neighbour) rings the doorbell to complain about loud music, used Kenney Jones's parents front door. The sequences with Steve sitting in a garden and the dancing sequences, was filmed at a green belonging to a nearby block of flats. The ending shots showing the river was filmed at the Thames embankment at nearby Wapping. The wooden building in the video remains unidentified, probably it has been torn down.

Havering street looks much like it did in the 60s apart from a few more signs, the Thames embankement is reachable in several places and it is hard to find the exact spot where the video was filmed since there is little in the video to identify where the exact spot was.

Video - Fuck Me Pumps

Beyond Retro is a Swedish chain of vintage clothes shops, the chain is popular in the UK and so has got three stores, two in London and one in Brighton.

The Beyond Retro shop in Londons East End was used in the video for the track "Fuck me pumps" by Amy Winehouse.

The video features Amy in various London streets holding a microphone and singing, at one point Amy is outside of the clothes shop which has been made to look like a bar by putting a sign saying "Bar" above it. Two women emerge from the bar behind Amy and start arguing in the street.

Video - Your Woman

Derby is a city in the East Midlands of England. It lies on the banks of the River Derwent and is surrounded by the shire county of Derbyshire.

The Music Video for White Town's "Your Woman" was shot in Derby City Centre and features iconic buildings and sculptures around Derby such as "the urinal" fountain, the "Derby Ram" and the Guild Hall. White Town is a techno-pop act from the United Kingdom, and is the work of one man, Jyoti Mishra.

Video - Hey Boy Hey Girl

The Natural History Museum is one a large museum on Exhibition Road in the district of South Kensington in the city of London.

The Natural History Museum was used for parts of the music video for Hey Boy Hey Girl, a single released by The Chemical Brothers from their 1999 album Surrender.

The Museum building, the central hall, the staircase in the hall, and the large Diplodocus skeleton on display in the hall, all feature in the music video. A young girl on a school trip to the museum chases a boy, but falls from the stairs in the central hall and breaks her hand.

Video - Science of Silence

Weston-super-Mare is a seaside resort town and parish in North Somerset, England.

In the video for Science of Silence Richard Ashcroft is seen walking the beach at Weston-Super-Mare along with his wife Kate Radley (former keyboardist of the band Spiritualised) and their dog.

Parts of the video shows Ashcroft in a house, this footage was not shot in Weston-Super-Mare but in Richard's house in Newent, Gloucestershire. The footage in the video showing the inside of a church has yet to be identified.

Video - Subterranean Homesick Blues

The Savoy Steps is an alley which is located behind the Savoy Hotel in London.

Construction work was taking place in the alley the recording for Subterranean Homesick Blues was made, scaffolding covered the left-hand wall, making it hard to identify this location in the present day. In the far background windows are visible, about level with Bob's head in the video, just above these windows are a trail of what seems to be white paint. The windows and the paint remains today, making it easy to identify Savoy Steps as the location for the video.

The video became one of the first "modern" promotional film clips - the forerunner of what later became known as the music video. Although Rolling Stone lists it as the 7th on its list of "100 Top Music Videos", the original clip was actually the opening segment of D. A. Pennebaker's film, Dont Look Back, a documentary on Bob Dylan's first tour of England in 1965. In the film, Dylan, who came up with the idea, holds up cue cards for the audience, with selected words and phrases from the lyrics. The cue cards were written by Dylan himself, Donovan, Allen Ginsberg and Bob Neuwirth. While staring at the camera, he flips the cards as the song plays. There are intentional misspellings and puns throughout the clip, for instance when the song's lyrics say "eleven dollar bills" the poster says "20 dollars".

Poet Ginsberg and Neuwirth make a cameo in the background. For use as a trailer, the following text was superimposed at the end of the clip while Dylan and Ginsberg are exiting the frame: "Surfacing Here Soon | Bob Dylan in Dont Look Now by D. A. Pennebaker". In addition to the Savoy Steps clip, two alternate promotional films were shot: one in a park where Dylan, Neuwirth and Ginsberg are joined by a fourth man, and another shot on the roof of an unknown building (possibly the Savoy Hotel). A montage of the clips can be seen in the documentary No Direction Home.

Video - Somewhere Else

The Northumberland Arms is a pub in the Islington district of northern London.

The video features Johnny Borrell walking around various place in London, before returning to where he started at the beginning. A large portion of the video was filmed inside and outside the Northumberland Arms in Islington.