Fatboy Slim – ‘That Old Pair of Jeans’ – Director Steve Glashier

Everything we’d done up until this point had been really gritty and nasty and very heavy on concept, so I just wanted to do something nice. The original idea was of a girl leaving home, plugging in an iPod and walking to work hula hoping, but as I was driving to the planned location, a cul-de-sac, saw the windmill and changed my promptly changed my mind. There was a small team of us working on it, Angie was brilliant- she had that proper hardcore Aussie attitude of ‘Let’s just get it done mate’- and the light was perfect. People think it’s shot on film in Dakota or something, but we were just really lucky with the weather.The video was an entry into a competition: Make a film about Juggling and Fatboy Slim uses it as a music video. We looked into it and the definition juggling states that it’s the movement of objects through the air. There’s no mention of balls or clubs or fucking chainsaws, so we thought we’d use hula-hoops. Herein lies the best part of the story- when we were announced as the winners the world’s juggling community went absolutely fucking nuts! Of everything I’ve done, I’m probably most proud of that: I fucking hate carnies!