The Lodge – ‘Noose’ – Director Steve Glashier

The Lodge had played at a house party at the same house weeks before, so the idea stemmed from that really. When the guys who lived there agreed to letting us film a video they had no idea of what they were letting themselves in for: literally half of Brighton turned up! We had such a nightmare trying to get people out of the way of shots, they thought they were at a real party. The amount of times I had to say ‘Look mate, get out the way and do as you’re told or I’ll fucking belt you one!’ was just phenomenal. We were chucking people into this bedroom when we need to get them out of the way; in the end, there were so many people crammed in there the door actually burst from its hinges! It was crazy. The coppers turned up at 4am to shut it down and turf everybody out- I don’t think they were expecting so many people to pour out, about 280 stumbled out of this semi detached house, all pissed up and gurning.There was no question about how we’d film it, we knew we wanted Johnny in the cage and shoot his progression through the party. We sped the playback up slightly, so there’s a slur to his movement that really adds to the feeling of detachment. He did really well to be fair to him, we had him in there for hours whilst everyone else was getting drunk and getting their swerve on.