Gomez - 78 Stone Wobble

What this video is

Released March 1998 as the debut single from Gomez's Mercury Prize-winning album Bring It On, '78 Stone Wobble' emerged at the precise moment Britpop was collapsing under the weight of its own hype. Gomez — five young men from Southport, Merseyside — offered a radically different proposition: a self-produced, home-recorded fusion of delta blues, lo-fi electronica and indie rock that confounded critics who found it…

Why it matters

As Gomez's debut single and the lead track of a Mercury Music Prize-winning album, '78 Stone Wobble' is a foundational document of the post-Britpop British blues-rock revival. Its video's lo-fi, performance-first aesthetic encapsulates the anti-fashion, roots-oriented counter-movement to Cool…

The director

Olly Blackburn (also credited as Oliver/Ollie Blackburn) is an English film director and screenwriter born in London. He graduated from Oxford University (1993, History), won a Fulbright Scholarship, and studied film and TV at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts,…