The plan for this one was to choreograph a single, unedited sequence. But we needed an appropriately minimal location for free, and so I attempted to hijack "at least three hours" after the band’s soundcheck at a London gig. We all squeezed into a circle on stage in the same arrangement I'd sketched out, then we were told we had only 45 minutes before being booted out. So with very little time and only available spotlights, we moved fast, without a camera rig, follow-focus or viewfinder. After five takes we were out of there. Oh, for a sixth.

An acoustic performance of the song features in the sunny Binaural Swimming (Beach).

This one was a for-fun thing I did for stress-relief after a different project finished. I’ve made quite a few ‘sketchbook’ shorts for the same reason over the years, all of them the offspring of a recurring impulse to splurge on something totally different and flex some starved editing muscles. In this case I turned to a totally mad 1940 public domain film from Russia about organ revival, which suited the song perfectly (and looking that film up on Wikipedia just now I found that MF Doom also used it for a music video eight whole years before I did!).

The studio version of Sun In The Island, starting in Nottingham and climaxing on Mam Tor in the snowy Derbyshire Peak District. I remember having a triple (!) hard disk failure while editing this and having to start all over again. For a mellow and even more snowy take on the song check Binaural Swimming (Skyspace).

The first one I did for Swimming. Mini-DV fun with the band inviting as many fans as possible to squeeze into a tiny basement venue.