Music Videos
| Date | Song | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|
| "Whitewash is Brainwash" | Thom Day | |
| 2006-jun | "Call Me Ishmael" | Ben & Greg (Ben Jones & Greg Fay) |
| 2006-jun | "I-Spy" | |
| 2006-aug | "The Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager (Part One)" | |
| 2006-oct | "War of the Worlds" | Sam Brown |
| 2008-jan | "Find the Time" | OneInThree (Bugsy Riverbank Steel & Ross Elliot Cooper) |
| 2008-apr | "Keep Singing Out" | Nick Bentley |
| 2010-aug | "Collapsing Cities" | Luke Snellin |
"I Spy" is somewhat a spoof of a British Saturday morning kids show. Where Duckworth is introduced by a creature that looks like one of the Fimbles and so continues to play on a seat surrounded by kids and various other characters like a stereotypical popstar.
"Call Me Ishmael" depicts an "escape" from everyday work, showing different people from different careers entering an underground tunnel network, along with Duckworth. At the end of the video, Duckworth emerges in a Job Centre, and is promptly asked by an employee to "Take a Number and a seat, please"; an anti-climax to the up-beat feeling of the rest of the song.
"Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager, Part One" (Chronicles for short) depicts Sam Duckworth with other band members playing in a casual environment, inside of a house — into which it is later revealed that a number of red strings lead. The bulk of the video consists of various people from different walks of life following one of these strings into the house. At this point, the crescendo of the song kicks in, and a more gig/party like atmosphere is assumed. The video ends by depicting the "morning after" with many people asleep, and Sam Duckworth still playing into a phone, quietly, next to a huge ball of red string.
"War of the Worlds" shows Duckworth in a warehouse sitting singing the song whilst workers busy themselves setting up poles in which their function are not known until the climax of the song, at which point they explode around Duckworth and spew out various colours of paint.
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