Last night I found myself in Studio 4 of Fox Studios, transported to another place. The set that resembled something like a Stanley Kubrick film. Design references that sprang to mind were Future/Minimalist/Maximalist/80’s and Outerspace (!)

The refrains of a new remix of Without You greeted me on arrival and remnants of dry ice were spilling out from the edges of the studio door.

Yep… it was the shoot for Video #4 from Empire Of The Sun… and, whisper it, it just might be their finest video yet.

It’s beautifully out-of-this-world and takes the whole Empire aesthetic somewhere else. This one is purely studio – not exotic location and with the direction change in song and tempo will reveal another side to the Empire Of The Sun story.

Luke looks part human, part alien and part-Bowie. He’s in great spirits and is raving about the live show. It can’t come quick enough for me.

The wait will be worth it.

Luke Steele is a proper artist. The kind that, when I was a kid watching Countdown, I dreamed of working with. He’s like some exotic artistic creature beamed in from another star.