Good morning Pilgrims!

Howdy fellow chefs and all ye who love our pastry, Chef Dan and myself had some spare time over the summer so we decided to use it wisely by making a little promo film for Pilgrims English Language Schools. You remember them, right? The children, the songs, the attractive staff members… Anyway, here’s what we ended up giving them. Oh and if you happen to hate it, it might be worth you knowing that the director of operations showed it at a summer schools fayre in Berlin recently and was told by the organisers that it was easily the best in the industry right now. So nuhh.

Vote for trees

Sigur Rós have invited film makers and video directors to create an original video for one of the tracks from their new album Valtari. The brief was completely open for entrants to take inspiration from the world around them. I appear in this video directed by Kate Molins & Nusha Ghironi… If you enjoy this tale of a tree messenger, set to an atmospheric Icelandic post-rock soundtrack, then you can vote… TO VOTE FOR THIS VIDEO CLICK HERE AND PRESS ‘VOTE’

In The Woods festival 2012

In The Woods is a small, secretive festival which takes place across a day and a night in the woodlands of Kent. So small and secretive in fact, that I didn’t even know of its existence until I received an unexpected invitation to perform on the Spoken Word stage… And so, yesterday’s line-up (15.30 – 21.00) was as follows: Dion Troubadour Power Charlie Dupre Dorothy Fryd and Richard Navarro Juha Virtanen Richard Dadd (that’s me) Indigo Williams I’d like to extend my thanks to organiser Richard Navarro, who remembered me from seeing one of my Canterbury performances several years ago. For my slot (7.30-8pm) I performed a brand new short story ‘The Diary’ about an introspective diarist who receives an unwanted tirade of attention, with comic consequences. My audience sat on hay bales, the arena a small clearing between trees hung with lights and interspersed with art installations and flowers. It was a pleasure to be involved, especially in such a unique and atmospheric setting. Due to noise restrictions, festival-goers were handed wireless headphones, meaning that my microphone fed into people’s ears rather than out of speakers. The same went for the silent disco, the cinema tent, even some...

Sales reps rap

It’s the 1980s, you are a sales rep for the Southern Food Brokerage Corporation, and your boss wants you and all your colleagues to join in with a little bit of harmless fun…

Lucy Kitt Mahogany Sessions

A couple of lovely new summery outdoor recordings from our good friend Lucy Kitt…

A conversation with my 12 year old self

In 1992, a boy made a video talking to his future self. 20 years later, he supplies the other half of the conversation…

Bakery Analytics

What do people type into Google which sends them to The Bakery? Well, I’ve trawled through 3 and a half year’s worth of Google Analytics to answer that question. I present a list of my favourite Google search terms which led people here. They’re all genuine, with my own thoughts in brackets… Art is tedious “pretentious arsehole” coffee and corks (anyone in particular?) marzipan diorama king julian cake celebrity dogging peado (5 angry dyslexic Daily Mail readers searched this) typical kentish barazine (this has been searched a baffling 117 times!) audio clip from the battle of marathon (might prove a little thin on the ground…) bakeries closed on the seventh day in england beautiful naked upturned breasts canterbury “too many students” cartoons of animals naked at the bakery (I don’t know what to say about this one) cockfosters dodecahedron satanism (my favourite kind of Satanism) dogging podcast (do people really make podcasts of that sort of thing!?) grimshaw mill (ee-bah-gum, it’s tough up north, down t’pit, what’s a saveloy? etc etc) herne bay shagging how to make savaloys (Jan Grimshaw does some fervent research) is kent uni good for film (No! Don’t do it!) melissa’s advanced tossing guide! Middle...

Arlet – Morning After

As Chef Alaric leads, the other chefs follow. Hot on the heels of our first ever music video release last month, I can now reveal our second, this time for the beautifully acoustic folk outfit Arlet (yes that’s right, the lovely people behind the soundtrack to The Last Bookshop). Recorded and filmed on an actual Thames barge called the Volharding just along from Tower Bridge, if you listen carefully you can hear the genuine creaks of the wooden beams and the splash of the river under the strum of guitar and blow of horn. Big thanks to Al for his amazing grading and Jan Grimshaw for helping out on the day, as well as the lovely people at the Volharding for keeping the tea supply constant! So without further ado, I present Morning After by the wonderful, the only, Arlet!  

Syd Arthur Music Video

April saw The Bakery making our first music video. It was for Canterbury based psychedelic rock band, Syd Arthur. They approached us because they knew we had some cameras and are shit at saying “no” to things. It was a great deal of fun making the video with the guys, especially because Dan was wearing his lucky new jacket. Without that, we would have ended up with a video like this. The track, Edge of the Earth, is off their new album On An On. The video got its online premiere on the Prog Rock music magazine’s blog here: http://www.progrockmag.com/news/prog-premiere-syd-arthur-reveal-new-video/ The incredible light box was kindly lent to us by the very patient Roderic Wilson from bubblevision.co.uk. I say lent, he actually set it all up for us too. For those interested, the light box runs off a matrix of HEXMOD LED’s that are controlled by laptop running a program called Madrix. Inside Madrix, we ran a que-sequence which we had pre-programmed lighting textures to the precise timings of the music. All the lighting textures were made by us too. Many thanks to Chris from lucidillusions.co.uk for teaching me how to do all of this, at such short notice....

The Bakery is on IMDb

And about time too. Click here.