LoneLady - Have No Past

What this video is

Released on 22 February 2010 as a track on LoneLady's debut album Nerve Up (Warp Records), 'Have No Past' sits within a moment of renewed critical appetite for UK post-punk minimalism. LoneLady — the project of Julie Campbell, a Fine Art graduate from East Manchester — embodied a strain of austerity-era DIY practice rooted in concrete urban environments. Nerve Up was recorded in a derelict mill in Miles Platting,…

Why it matters

Represents a key document of early 2010s British post-punk minimalism on Warp Records. The song's anti-edit, single-take video format exemplifies DIY art-punk video practice, placing visceral formal restraint above spectacle — a visual strategy consonant with LoneLady's acknowledged influences…