Up until now the only videos I’ve ever had have been homespun, made by myself, often with the help of others. I’m very pleased to say that, due to the incredible generosity of the crowdfunders I’ve been able to afford something with a bit (ie a lot) more polish and finesse.

‘You’ was created by Berlin photographer Laura Braun (who also sings on the recording) and her partner David San Millan. The original plan was for me to go to Germany where we would shoot some studio footage that would then be animated, but with lockdown making that impossible my daughter Alice shot the green screen footage of me in our basement here on the Isle of Wight and Laura took it from there, adding her original super8 footage of local fauna and creating a much slimmer body for me.

The song itself is a long overdue love song to my wife. Whilst in the studio recording the album I came across these lyrics in my pile of ideas, I don’t remember writing them but the words suggested a tune, within the hour it was written, I think we recorded it the next day.