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Graham Hughes

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About Me

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Hi I’m Graham. I’m a VIDEO DIRECTOR from LIVERPOOL. I like travelling, loud music, great movies, good food and MAKING UP DAFT STORIES.

Okay, yes, I take a bit of getting used to, but c'mon - let your hair down for five mintues, we'll have the time of our fucking lives! When are you PLANNING on having fun? When you're DEAD?

I've just sorted out my myspace page to make it easier for you to find my SHORT FILMS, MUSIC VIDS and VIDEO DAIRIES I have made over the last few years. I hope you like them. YEAH!!

HUGHES NEWS

Guess what? I'm in Australia! Woo woo woo. I'll be back on the 9th January 2008 if you need anything, send me an email or contact the office and get Matt to help you out.


SHORT FILMS


THE CENSOR

Just when you thought it was safe to let your hair down, THE CENSOR is here to remind us of old-fashioned British values like good manners, sexual repression and cold-blooded murder. Infamously banned by MySpace, THE CENSOR contains scenes of an adult nature. 10 mins.


DAY OF THE JACKANAPE

Drum tracks down his missing bandmate in this breezy detective noir set in a world where good music is worth killing for. WINNER of the Liverpool 48-hour film-making competition 2006. 6 mins.


JEDI KNIGHT OUT

Luke and Yoda go out on the lash only to discover that picking up chicks isn't always the best use of their Jedi abilities. WINNER of the MTV Episode III 30 second short competition. 30 secs.


DRACULA

Short clips of 'Dracula', made as an advert for Ullaloom Theatre Company's show. Shot in the style of the movie classic Nosferatu. 3 mins.


VLOGS


THE ARCTIC MONKEYS HOUSE

Earlier this year I was fortunate enough to be part of the camera crew recording the epic design work for the cover of Favourite Worst Nightmare. Here's my unofficial peak inside the house.


DRACULA'S CASTLE

Stan and I play Transylvanian Families in this quick n' dirty tour of Romania's BRAN CASTLE, legendary home of VLAD THE IMPALER aka DRACULA. Or so the tourist guides say......


HOUSE PARTY!

I'm so sorry! Having downed an entire bottle of whiskey I was not in any fit state to appear on camera. Although that's never stopped me before. Look on the bright side - at least I didn't wet my pants.


More of my vids!

TRAVELOGUES


GRAHAM AND MANDY HIT THE ROAD
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10

In the spring of 2002, Mandy and I set off on an epic adventure across the red heart of AUSTRALIA. We thundered through the desert in a clapped out old panel van called Monty. This is the video of that remarkable journey.


GRAHAM vs. THE WORLD!

If you haven't seen this yet, WATCH IT NOW!! Mandy and I racing around the world to the sound of Basement Jaxx. Snakes, Spiders, Crocodiles, Skydiving, Jungles, Bungee Jumps, Deserts, Swamps and Pirhanas!! If this doesn't set your pants on fire, I don't know what will!!


BUNGEEEEEE!

I have never done anything as stupid and as terrifying as this IN MY LIFE...! The infamous Nevis Highwire Bungee Jump in Queenstown, New Zealand. 440 feet of pure terror. Watch if you dare!


More of my travel vids!

FESTIVAL DIARIES


GLASTONBURY SECRETS

In celebration of my eighth Glastonbury festival, I put together my TOP TEN Glastonbury Secrets, from where to get free food to how to push to the very front of the crowd in under 60 seconds. Yay!


DOWNLOAD 2006

Stan and I on a daytrip to Castle Donington to see our mate's band ends up becoming a mission to take the piss out of everything and everyone to do with what has to be the funniest festival on the planet.


THE LEEDS FESTIVAL 2002 PART 1 | PART 2

NEW! Dan and Graham set off on yet another ill-advised adventure in the festival vortex. In these vids we meet Kim Deal, annoy the Prodigy and laugh heartily at Dave Grohl's favourite nudie crowd surfer. Includes clips from Pulp's last ever gig in England.


THE V FESTIVAL 2002 PART 1 | PART 2

A surprisingly good line-up at V that year, but that wasn't going to stop Dan and I getting so wasted that we ended up breaking into the Budweiser tent and howling at the moon...


More of my festival vids!

MUSIC VIDEOS - DIRECTOR


LYONS AND TIGERS - THEME FROM LYONS AND TIGERS

Mandy and I filmed this video in one continuous take in a warehouse near the docks. Kudos to the band for not keeling over from exhaustion at the end...!


ZUKO - READY SET GO

Here's our version of The Italian Job meets Thelma and Louise. With scalextric.


PERFORMANCE - LOVE LIFE

Another zero-budget vid, this one was filmed in a school hall up in Rochdale. Performance always put on a good show and this was no exception, and they look great in sheer black and white!


SANTA CARLA | HAVARD LOTHE LAURITSEN | 13 AMP
KAYA | THE MAJORITY | JADED

All of these videos were shot for £500 or less and give you a great example of what I can do with the tiniest of budgets.


MUSIC VIDEOS - CINEMATOGRAPHY

With Stuart Lanceley


WHITE ROSE MOVEMENT - LOVE IS A NUMBER

Dir. Gavin Woods. Lots of lovely black and white screams from Mandy, Michelle, Anna, Trevor and Gemma. We dodged lots of traffic shooting this vid, it's amazing we made it back unscathed!


THE PIPETTES - JUDY

Dir. Juno. The Pipettes kick ass and you know it. Here's their Grange Hill-inspired comic book vid for Judy which we shot down at Toxteth TV.


THE SONIC HEARTS - HOLD ON

Dir. Juno. Based on a short French film, Hold On saw us filming in Garston, Norton's scrap yard and Stanley Tobacco Warehouse. It's also chock full of loads of my brilliant handheld camerawork!


HOT CLUB DE PARIS | THE DEAD 60s | THE BASEMENT
WORKING FOR A NUCLEAR FREE CITY
Here's a bunch of other vids I've shot for Juno. From creepy funfairs to Russian cosmonauts, these vids are a good showcase of my nifty camerawork when dealing with exteriors, interiors and greenscreen.


My Interests

I like MAKING VIDEOS!!! And, of course, indie rock n roll, great movies, live music, British comedy, American drama, food that bites back, summer festivals, dirty dancefloors and dreams of naughtiness...

I'd like to meet:

A Guilty Bystander.

Music:

Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Bloc Party, Kaiser Chiefs, Morrissey, The Cribs, Sigur Ros, The Futureheads, The White Stripes, Franz Ferdinand, Editors, Kasabian, Green Day, Hard-Fi, Mercury Rev, Razorlight, The Hives, Gorillaz, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, We Are Scientists, Eminem, Scissor Sisters, Muse, The Killers, The Dead 60s, Maximo Park, The Stone Roses, Pulp, Blur, Oasis, Radiohead, Suede, Weezer, The Lemonheads, The Dandy Warhols, At The Drive In, Electric Six, The Verve, Starsailor, Bloodhound Gang, The Cardigans, Marilyn Manson, A Perfect Circle, Supergrass, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Pearl Jam, Flaming Lips, Ash, The Manic Street Preachers, Placebo, Elastica, Queens Of The Stoneage, The Bluetones, Garbage, Primal Scream, Black Grape, Happy Mondays, Smashing Pumpkins, Super Furry Animals, The Zutons, REM, The Cure, The Pixies, Gomez, Snow Patrol, Goldie Lookin' Chain, David Bowie, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Doors, T-Rex, Elvis, Roy Orbison, Marvin Gaye, Louis Armstrong, The Sex Pistols, The Clash, Madness, The Smiths, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Buzzcocks, The Animals, The Beach Boys, The Butthole Surfers, Beck, The Kinks, The Small Faces, The Who, The Jam, Jeff Buckley, Carter USM, Echobelly, The Boo Radleys, Terrorvision, Offspring, Presidents of the USA, Abba, The Carpenters, Don McLean, Buddy Holly, Ray Charles, Simon and Garfunkel, Nine Inch Nails, Menswear, Led Zeppelin, Dirty Three, The Strokes, Tindersticks, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Goldfrapp, Death In Vegas, The Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, The Charlatans, Kate Bush, The Beastie Boys, Air, Joy Division, New Order, Yazoo, Erasure, The Pet Shop Boys, Blondie, The Moody Blues, Procul Harlem, The Undertones, Shakespears Sister, Talking Heads, CSS, White Rose Movement and Lyons and Tigers.

Movies:

Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Casablanca, The Godfather, Back To The Future, Fight Club, Breakfast at Tiffanys, Lord of the Rings, Alien(s), Blade Runner, Shawshank Redemption, Goodfellas, A Clockwork Orange, Moulin Rouge, To Kill A Mocking Bird, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, The Goonies, Wages Of Fear, Psycho (original), The Usual Suspects, Lawrence of Arabia, Sin City, Seven Samurai, Grave of the Fireflies, Planet of the Apes (original), Jean de Florette, The Shining, Cinema Paradiso, Mad Max, Rear Window, Citizen Kane, Team America: World Police, His Girl Friday, Kind Hearts and Coronets, 12 Angry Men, The Wizard of Oz, The Big Sleep, High Noon, The Wild Bunch, On The Waterfront, Raging Bull, Akira, Picnic At Hanging Rock, Bridge On The River Kwai, A Nightmare On Elm Street, Stand By Me, Walkabout, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Airplane, M, Trainspotting, The Dambusters, Duck Soup, The Manchurian Candidate (original), Dial M For Murder, Ghostbusters, Brick, Pan's Labyrinth, James Bond, Ice Cold in Alex, The Seventh Seal, Vertigo, Gremlins, Gladiator, Sunset Boulevard, All About Eve, The Apartment, The Hill, The Great Escape, Bullitt, Night of the Hunter, Once Upon A Time in the West, Zoolander, Borat, The Incredibles, Groundhog Day, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Big Lebowski, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Fargo, Sullivan's Travels, It Happened One Night, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Pandora's Box, Hellraiser, Dawn of the Dead (original), Get Carter (original), The Wicker Man (original), Don't Look Now, Phase IV, Capricorn I, Scanners, The Fly, Videodrome, Easy Rider, The Big Sting, The Hustler, The Invisible Man, King Kong, Bride of Frankenstein, Ed Wood, Mars Attacks!, Sleepy Hollow, Batman, Spider-man, Memento, LA Confidential, Double Indemnity, Stir Crazy, Brewster's Millions, Jaws, Metropolis, The Last Emperor, Amadeus, The Big Sleep and about a thousand more...

Television:

Lost, Sopranos, 24, Six Feet Under, Deadwood, House MD, The West Wing, My Name Is Earl, The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, Futurama, The Twilight Zone, Twin Peaks, ER, League of Gentlemen, Fawlty Towers, Father Ted, Spaced, Monty Python, One Foot In The Grave, The Fast Show, The Young Ones, Bottom, The Comic Strip Presents, The Office, Extras, Star Trek, Blackadder, Brass Eye, Prison Break, Red Dwarf, John Safran vs. God, Newsnight, University Challenge, Moviewatch, Horizon, Mastermind, Maid Marion and her Merry Men, 30 Days, BBC News 24, Babylon 5, Weeds, V, Brainiac, Derren Brown, The Day Today, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, Rising Damp, Porridge, The Sky At Night, Carnivale, Penn and Teller's Bullshit!, The Prisoner, QI, Have I Got News For You, Monkey Dust, Monkey, The Tripods, Cracker, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Time Trumpet, That Mitchell and Webb Look, Peep Show, Life on Mars and phew! Quantum Leap.

Books:

Midnight's Children, Shame, The Moor's Last Sigh, Catch-22, The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, Darkness at Noon, Catcher In The Rye, A Clockwork Orange, The God Delusion, The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, The His Dark Materials Trilogy, The Harry Potter Series, The Sherlock Holmes Cases, Dracula, On The Road, Gormenghast, The Beach, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Animal Farm, The Grapes of Wrath, The Sun Also Rises, For Whom The Bell Tolls, A Farewell To Arms, The Old Man and The Sea, Moby Dick, Nostromo, The Secret Agent, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness and Lolita.

Heroes:

Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Bertrand Russell, William Shakespeare, Douglas Adams, Monty Python, Emile Zola, Rod Serling, Albert Einstein, Sir Isaac Newton, Stephen Hawking, Galileo Galilei, Copernicus, Imhotep, Ernest Rutherford, Alan Turing, Rosa Parks, William Wilberforce, Winston Churchill, Elizabeth I, Voltaire, Jesus of Nazareth, David Attenbough, Leonardo Da Vinci, Mahatma Ghandi, John Logie Baird, Alexander Graham Bell, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Michael Faraday, Thomas Edison, Tommy Flowers, Arthur C Clarke, Pierre and Marie Curie, Alfred Nobel, Louis Pasteur, The Unknown Soldier, Bertrand Russell, everyone who has ever won the VC, Edwin Hubble, Alexander Fleming and...

My Blog

The body politics?

Okay, I don't really own very much  I've never been one for consumerism, buying for the sake of buying all that jazz  those of you who know me know I value experience over possessions anyday.  ...
Posted by Graham Hughes on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 04:54:00 PST

How Terrorism Is The Natural Outcome of Faith...

Whoop! Whoop!  We are on high alert again, because some fucking NUTJOBS think that by blowing up civilians they will enter some wonderful magic fairyland harem in the clouds.  In this harem,...
Posted by Graham Hughes on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 03:47:00 PST

Bono Facts

Bono is such a cunt that he puts random pubes in your sandwiches.Bono is such a cunt that he actually invented AIDS and then invented Catholicism to ensure its spread around Africa.When your boyfriend...
Posted by Graham Hughes on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 02:17:00 PST

The Roaring End of the Beer Vortex

And so through the early morning London smog flight TG910 touches down on the rain-soaked Heathrow tarmac and in its swirling turbines the Beer Vortex unravels and the vessel that has been cast adrift...
Posted by Graham Hughes on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 06:28:00 PST

The Return of the Mandster - BBQ Saturday

Mandy gets back on Thursday, so after ensuring she doesn't walk straight for a month, we will be holding a celebratory AUSSIE BARBECUE from 3PM on SATURDAY 16th JUNE. It goes without saying that ...
Posted by Graham Hughes on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:54:00 PST

Crying, Wanking, Eating a cold Pot Noodle...

I'm sorry Matt, Leo, John, Si, Fil, Alex, Tony, Hugh, Chess, Adam, Mary, Nico, Trev and everybody else who took part - THE CENSOR didn't make the cut into the final 12 of the Movie Mashup. Ho hum...
Posted by Graham Hughes on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:15:00 PST

What's with that?

People in the moshpit with lit cigarettes - are you the most stupid fucking fucks in the whole goddamn world?  How can you be so intentionally dense?  I can't fucking wait until 1st July yo...
Posted by Graham Hughes on Sun, 27 May 2007 04:58:00 PST

The Cribs @ Carling Academy 25-05-2007

http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/articles/2007/05/29/m usic_review_thecribs_feature.shtml It's student disco time!  Inexplicable eighties pop 'classics' pump out over the PA, eyebrows are ra...
Posted by Graham Hughes on Tue, 29 May 2007 05:20:00 PST

The Gambier Terrorists

Woke up on yet ANOTHER couch on Gambier Terrace this morning. Can't remember too much it involved Scott, Hugh and Dave Lyons so it probably was against the law. What's with Gambier Terrace? Do they on...
Posted by Graham Hughes on Wed, 23 May 2007 05:42:00 PST

Preaching to the Choir

I met a guy last night.  He was the same age as me, he grew up round the corner from my parents house but I had never met him before.  Why?  Because he was BLACK and where I grew u...
Posted by Graham Hughes on Fri, 18 May 2007 05:32:00 PST