THE VIDEOS

HOME AND DRY

Quite simply one of the most bizarre videos a regular chart act has ever issued. Directed by the Turner Prize-winning photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, Home And Dry largely consists of footage of mice scurrying around under the tracks at Tottenham Court Road tube station. Look! A mouse hides under a discarded chocolate wrapper. A pair of mice munch on the leftovers of a burger! Neil and Chris can briefly be seen playing the song on a small stage... and, er, that’s it. Two decades later a YouTube commenter would snark: “I can’t imagine the effort that went into achieving this masterpiece.”

I GET ALONG

Directed by another photographer, Bruce Weber, I Get Along is almost as baffling as its predecessor. It opens with shots of a flamehaired, bare-chested youth running through a public park. There’s an onscreen quote by Joseph Conrad and then suddenly we’re at an artist’s studio in New York. Some good looking young people who might be models try on costumes, caress each other and look studiously bored in that way that models do. Somebody flicks through some Polaroids, there’s a shot of two people wrestling. We see Neil chatting with these young people and Chris himself takes a Polaroid.

LONDON

Filmed in, well, London by that celebrated chronicler of British life, Martin Parr, with two actors playing the part of the Russian émigrés. We see them land at Heathrow, take a bus into town, eat at a greasy spoon, before passing Neil and Chris busking in a subway underneath Marble Arch; Chris balancing his keyboard precariously on his knees. As you’d expect from Parr there are some beautiful shots of the capital in 2002, Routemaster buses, Big Issue sellers, market stall holders and all. As poignant a time capsule of its era as the West End Girls vid was to the mid-80s.