Tim Burgess - Laurie

What this video is

Released in April 2020 during the first wave of COVID-19 lockdowns in the UK, Laurie arrived as a single from Tim Burgess's fifth solo album I Love The New Sky (Bella Union, May 2020). Burgess, best known as frontman of The Charlatans — one of Britain's defining Madchester-to-Britpop era bands — had by this point established a parallel solo career and become a cultural figure through his pioneering Twitter…

Why it matters

Laurie represents the mature, introspective strand of British indie rock in the post-Britpop era, where artists from the 1990s wave have continued producing critically regarded solo work. The mixed-media animated video format reflects a broader early-2020s trend of independent artists…

The director

Callum Scott-Dyson is a UK-based music video director whose confirmed credits on IMVDb include work spanning 2017–2021, including Hey You by False Advertising (2017), Laurie by Tim Burgess (2020), and Maybe Chocolate Chips by CHAI (2021). His work on Laurie…