We’re in a music video!
We had the opportunity to sponsor the music video for Groundwork, the latest song by Big Narstie, Ed Sheeran, and Papoose – so we took it! Steve, our Sales and Marketing Director, was on holiday so I took it upon myself to head down to London with my boot full of Dutch Barn Vodka and specially-made gift boxes for the artists and music video director, Kevin Hudson.
I genuinely did not know what to expect, and for a little while I wondered whether it was ever going to happen. I didn’t have any details other than “London” until late in the evening the day before the shoot. When you have stars like Big Narstie, Ed Sheeran, and Papoose being filmed on location around London, the details have to be kept under wraps for as long as possible in order to avoid mobs of adoring fans. I was relieved when the details were finally sent across and then doubly relieved when the locations were revealed to be in North London. I was not looking forward to the prospect of navigating Central London in a car!
I had two missions on the day – the first was to make sure Dutch Barn Vodka was present in the agreed scenes and that the bottles were looking their best. The second was to deliver the gift boxes to their recipients. Less of a mission, but still a requirement of the day, was to be a good ambassador for Dutch Barn Vodka and Ellers Farm Distillery. I kept having this vision of the scene from Wayne’s World where Noah of Noah’s Arcade comes onto the public access cable show and is deeply uncool while trying to push his arcade-based sponsorship agenda. I did not want to be that guy.