The Black Spiders music videos
A few years ago I created a trilogy of archive music videos for rock and roll beasts The Black Spiders, using footage culled from archive.org. Creating videos from pre-existing material is always an enjoyable challenge, especially as the clarity and quality of the footage varied wildly. I always felt that these archive videos reinforced the fast and loose, easy and sleazy attitude of the Black Spiders and I always appreciated being left alone to create them without any input from the band. In 2020, the band reformed and two more videos were assembled…
The black spiders - GIVE ‘EM WHAT THEY WANT (2021)
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My fifth (count ‘em, firth) music video for the Black Spiders is another made from archive footage from the Prelinger Archives. Lyric videos are a relatively new direction for me and it’s good fun working out what styles work best for the video, as well as curating appropriate levels of dirt and scratches.
The black spiders - Fly in your soup (2020)
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A couple of years after breaking up, the mighty Spiders reformed in lockdown and recorded a new album. Fly in Your Soup was the first single released and the video was created, as all my Black Spiders video have been this far, using footage from the Prelinger Archives and their wealth of ‘fly’ related content.
the black spiders - teenage knife gang (2014)
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One of the hardest archive videos I have made (you try finding that much usable footage of teenage delinquents), this was the final video in the Black Spiders trilogy. The band broke up a mere 4yrs after this video was released. Coincidence?
the black spiders - creatures (2013)
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Created as an exclusive for Jagermeister, this may well be the first music video to feature repeated shots of US soldiers vomiting. It may also not be that. I haven’t done any research to back that up. As a side note, I really wanted to dirty up the Jagermeister logo at the beginning to keep the aesthetic in line with the rest of the video, but that was frowned upon.
the black spiders - st. peter (2011)
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Built from a bizarre 1950s road safety video featuring children dressed in chimpanzee masks whittling their numbers down as they meet various grisly fates as they travel across the town, this video was completely counter to every idea, suggestion and steer that the band gave me. Luckily, they liked it.