Ikara Colt - Wanna Be That Way

What this video is

Released in February 2004, 'Wanna Be That Way' arrived during the peak commercial moment of the UK post-punk revival. Ikara Colt, formed at London Guildhall University and signed to Fantastic Plastic Records, occupied an abrasive, art-school edge of the scene — drawing comparisons to Sonic Youth and The Fall and earning consistent support from John Peel. The band were explicit about their intent to disband before…

Why it matters

A document of the harder, art-school-inflected edge of the 2004 UK indie explosion. Ikara Colt's work — compared by critics to Wire, Sonic Youth, and The Fall — provides crucial archival evidence of the post-punk underground that coexisted with more commercially visible acts. The promo's…

The director

Woof Wan Bau is the directing pseudonym of Joji Koyama, an artist and director active in UK music video and commercial production in the 2000s–2010s. Koyama directed music videos for artists including Ikara Colt and Max Tundra, and collaborated with Four Tet…