Coldplay - Shiver

What this video is

Released on 6 March 2000 as the lead UK single from Coldplay's debut album Parachutes, 'Shiver' arrived at a pivotal cultural inflection point: Britpop had commercially collapsed, and a new wave of emotionally earnest British indie rock — influenced by American artists such as Jeff Buckley — was emerging. The song's minimalist studio video, directed by Grant Gee (already known for his intimate Radiohead work),…

Why it matters

A foundational document of the post-Britpop British indie-alternative transition, 'Shiver' and its video established the visual and sonic language Coldplay would deploy across their early career: intimate performance, analogue warmth, emotional directness, and minimal production artifice. The…

The director

Grant Robert Gee (born 1 November 1964, Plymouth, Devon) is a British filmmaker, photographer and cinematographer. He studied at St Catherine's College, Oxford and the University of Illinois. He is most noted for his 1998 Radiohead documentary Meeting People…