Makin Time - Here is my Number

What this video is

Released in 1985, 'Here Is My Number' is the debut single from Makin' Time, a West Midlands band signed to Countdown Records (distributed by Stiff Records) and central to the mid-1980s second wave of British mod revival. By this point the original late-1970s mod revival spearheaded by The Jam had subsided, but a cluster of bands — including Makin' Time, The Prisoners, and Secret Affair — sustained the subculture…

Why it matters

One of the most musically accomplished singles of the 1980s British mod revival second wave, 'Here Is My Number' demonstrates the genre's pivot from punk-influenced rawness to a cleaner power-pop and soul synthesis. As a debut single produced with a full marketing budget on a Stiff-affiliated…

The director

Nigel Dick (born 21 March 1953, Catterick, North Yorkshire) is a British music video director and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. He began his career at Stiff Records as a press officer, then co-founded Propaganda Films in the mid-1980s alongside David…