WHO IS SIMON FARROWLAND?
Our buddy Saam Farahmand (in the pink sweater) is the "hottest" music video director in the world right now. Klaxons heap praise on him in a recent interview with a free magazine which describes itself as "a lifestyle title for 21st century media savvy creatures." But it seems the dictaphone was dodgy because the interviewer decided to give Iranian-born Saam a nice Anglo-Saxon name. The misnomer now threatens to spark an international incident...
Here's an excerpt from the offending piece where the interviewer asks Klaxons about their videos...
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Simon: We’ve been very fortunate in that respect because we’ve been friends with Simon Farrowland, the director, since before we even started the band. He did visuals for The Rapture and for Claw, when they were still around. His stuff is incredible and we wanted to work with him from day one.
Simon: We trust Simon. He had us shaving our chests and jumping up and down on trampolines, which was odd, but we’re kind of alright with it now! We definitely want him to do all the stuff for this record.
Simon: Simon has done all our videos so far except for Atlantis To Interzone. We really liked the idea of developing an ongoing relationship with one director. I've not seen anyone who's done five or six videos with the same band for a while now. Michel Gondry and Chris Cunningham did it, but there doesn’t seem to be much continuity anymore.
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We called up Saam to see what he made of it ...
Vice: Is this Saam Farahmand or Simon Farrowland?
Saam: I know relations with Iran are not very good at the moment but this is ridiculous.
It reminds us of when the German and Polish Jews had to change their names. Like from Gil Goldberg to George Green.
I hope it was just an honest mistake.
What are you up to at the moment?
I’m pitching to Hollywood a biopic about Tom Cruise. I want Tom to play himself.
What else?
I watched 300 at the IMAX. It was so good I chewed a hole through my hoodie. I want to end up being an ambassador for IMAX.
* Tune into www.saam.tv for more
Haha. Total idiots. Which magazine is it?
Posted by: mousse p | 30/03/2007 at 18:06
is it hooker magazine? that's such a piece of shit
Posted by: john | 30/03/2007 at 18:08
it was us.
Posted by: blow back magazine | 30/03/2007 at 18:21
We'd like to take this oppertunity to thank Mr Farrowland for all his hard work and very much look forward to working with him in the near future .
Posted by: Klaxons | 30/03/2007 at 19:38
Isn't it CLOR and not CLAW?
It pains me that editors would rather give jobs to London City Uni graduates who sat in halls for three years listening to The Magic Numbers than people who actually know what... Oh, lets face it, me.
Posted by: Dork. | 30/03/2007 at 21:13
Simon Farrowland is the new Michael Gondry, FACT
Posted by: Cockfucker | 31/03/2007 at 05:39
WHO IS SIMON FARROWLAND?
WHO GAES AE FUK !?
Posted by: Jay | 31/03/2007 at 13:18
yeah, the guy obviously was just a lazy transcriber, unless there is some political context that would explain typing CLAW instead of CLOR. gimmmie a breeeaaak
Posted by: thoughtful thandie | 31/03/2007 at 17:18