Everything But The Girl - On My Mind

What this video is

Released in 1983 as a promotional video for the B-side of EBTG's debut Cherry Red single 'Night and Day' (originally released June 1982, reissued August 1983), 'On My Mind' documents the duo at the precise threshold of their career — still operating within the UK independent scene before signing to Blanco y Negro/Warner for their 1984 debut album Eden. The song itself, written by Tracey Thorn, originated as a…

Why it matters

As a rare surviving promotional clip from EBTG's Cherry Red period, this video represents one of the earliest audio-visual documents of the sophisti-pop genre in formation — predating the polished Blanco y Negro-era videos and offering an unmediated record of Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt's aesthetic…

The director

Big TV! is a UK-based music video production company/collective active from the early 1980s onward, credited with directing videos for independent and alternative British artists. No further verifiable individual biographical details were found in available…