The Raconteurs - From The Basement Full Set

What this video is

Filmed in 2008 at London's Maida Vale Studios during The Raconteurs' 'Consolers of the Lonely' album cycle, this session sits at the intersection of two significant cultural currents: the mid-2000s garage rock revival supergroup phenomenon (led by Jack White's multi-project output) and the early web-television prestige-performance movement pioneered by Nigel Godrich's From the Basement. The series consciously…

Why it matters

Represents a canonical document of the mid-2000s garage rock revival supergroup format, capturing The Raconteurs — one of the era's most acclaimed side-projects — in the definitive long-form live-capture context of From the Basement. The zero-edit single-take approach is itself a genre statement:…

The director

Sophie Luise Elisabeth Muller (born 31 January 1962, London) is an English music video director with over 300 videos to her credit. A graduate of Central St Martins and the Royal College of Art, she won a Grammy for Annie Lennox's 1992 Diva video album, an…