Making the video for Tell Me Where To Go and filming/animating it all with my great pal Joseph Boyle was one heck of a brilliant journey. It’s subsequent tour of film festivals over the past year was also a totally unexpected rollercoaster. Disappearing into a journey in a world of one’s own to create a video about a fantastical journey, only for it to go off on its own fantastical voyage across the globe has all been rather surreal. We watched it get picked up by 35 different film festivals across the continents, receive nominations and awards, get championed by Neil Gaiman, and the song too was appreciated with radio play and a ‘Best Song’ award from the Cannes World Film Festival. That’s crazy. We met a lot of truly wonderful people, who bounced back a helluva lot of love and appreciation for the work Tell Me Where To Go became. It’s been quite overwhelming to be honest, and it leaves one feeling very humbled and grateful for it all. It was made with a lot of love, and above all a lot of long long hours which myself and Joe spent in a darkened room aboard my boat, creating scenes and moving things in minute increments. Tell Me Where To Go will continue on its own journey I hope and for now it feels like there’s nothing else to do around it. But what I’m left with is the feeling more animation beckons and that it’s the start of a journey rather than the end of one. One of the nicest things to happen through the journey was the BBC World Service produced a documentary piece about the making of it for their programme ‘In The Studio’, which was made by the totally brilliant icon of legends that is Antonia Quirke. Having Antonia on board my home, chatting to myself and Joe, and then hearing the brilliant programme she crafted was a real honour and joy, as was the wonderful feedback received from listeners. If you want to check it out, you can have a listen on the BBC Website here.
Different Flowers / album out now