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videos | dancing barefoot

director
Ed Sayers


producer
Rebecca West


production company
Godman


genre
Studio performance


source
Dancing Barefoot (3:48)


comments
Again, the brief was very simple: Get the band together on a small black stage, dress them in simple contrasting colours, saturate the set with white light and shoot it on high ISO film.

And make it black and white for that extra arty effect.

And add a few shots of a girl driving a car around. At night.

Job done.

It was a simple video, and with the benefit of retrospect, it looks like a rehearsal for the Home video (sans girl, plus colour).

It's an important video as it was the only one featuring Mark Kerr (on drums) and Gordon Goudie (on guitar), part of the line-up who recorded Neon Lights and some of Cry.

A promo photograph taken at the shoot became the central image of the Cry sleeve (albeit reversed).

The film leader gives production and director credits, as well as a recording date of 4th September 2001.

Behind-the-scenes footage (in colour) was also recorded, which turned up in the Neon Lights EPK.


availability
Rejuvenaton 2001-2014 CD/DVD Box

The video wasn't made commercially available until 2019 when it was added to the Rejuvenation 2001-2014 CD/DVD box. (An earlier chance to add it to the Seen The Lights compilation was missed.)

Until then, it was only available as a VHS promo video.


collectors' information
Eagle made some cheap-and-cheerful VHS copies. Now very hard to find, they just have a crudely printed spine sticker.

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Charlie, Mark, Jim, Gordon

It's the Cry sleeve. Before it was messed about with

Looks good in colour