The video accompanying Between Two Fires - the new single from Ben Watt’s upcoming album Fever Dream - is directed by Brighton filmmaker and photographer Edward Bishop and cuts between a shadowy lone vocal performance and night-time journey out of the city.
'It’s an end-of-relationship song,' says Watt, 'someone driving away from the past, struggling to apportion no blame and resolve things in their own mind. As a visual idea, I asked Edward to bonnet-mount a camera at night and just drive out of a busy city towards somewhere remote in the middle of nowhere.'
The journey begins among the festoon lights and ferris wheel of Brighton’s downtown promenade and ends in a dead-end high on the Sussex Downs. The footage is intercut with a late-night solo performance by Watt in his home studio.
’There’s an honesty in the words,’ says Bishop of the studio filming, 'so we shot the performance part at home, stripped his piano back to its skeleton, lit the room with simple flickering light, and captured Ben in three quick direct takes.’
Between Two Fires is out on 26th February, followed by the album, Fever Dream, on April 8.
