Interview with Davey Ahern / Berlin Music Video Awards 2024

Berlin Music Video Awards

Discover the interview with Davey Ahern, producer at Canada (creative production company), and nominated in the "Best concep" category with the music video "Skipping Like A Stone - The Chemical Brothers ft. Beck". They won first place!   Check the full music video "Skipping Like A Stone - The Chemical Brothers ft. Beck":  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRtxogXp8sY   Follow them:  @thechemicalbrothers @beck  @canadacanadacom   Credits :  Interview and edit by Sebastian Sheath and Yannick Solandt (unsigned Berlin): https://www.youtube.com/@unsignedberlin   Do you want to be part of the Berlin Music Video Awards as well? Submit your video here: https://www.berlinmva.com/submit/ We are now taking submissions.

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00:00Can you introduce yourself, what's your name, where are you from?

00:14Yeah, my name is Davey O'Hearn, I'm a producer with Canada, based in Barcelona.

00:19And what are you here for?

00:20I'm here for the Skipping Like a Stone best concept music video.

00:25Nice.

00:26Was it your concept?

00:27At what point were you on?

00:29So basically, it's actually the director, Pensacola, he's one of our directors that

00:34we work with all the time in Canada, and the production company Canada, and yeah, no, it's

00:40his concept.

00:41He got the music video brief, he came up with the idea based on the track.

00:45The song is called Skipping Like a Stone, so he had the idea of like a guy skimming

00:51a stone, but then the stone kind of becoming an entity or a personality, and then like

00:57solving crime essentially.

00:59Is that how he pitched it to you?

01:01That's exactly how he pitched it, yeah, and it's like, yeah, and they were like, yeah,

01:04we love it.

01:05Yeah, yeah.

01:06So we had like a little bit, I don't think there was any real back and forth or anything

01:09really.

01:10It was like the idea was pretty solid, everybody loved it.

01:12So it was just how to make it a reality, because it is quite a crazy concept.

01:29How did it become a reality?

01:31So yeah, so basically they came up with the idea, Pau from Pensacola was working with

01:36a lot, and then there's another team of Callum and like other producers in Canada, and we

01:42were working with Pau from Pensacola, and like he had his idea, his vision, and then

01:48we just tried to figure out how we could do it, where we could do it.

01:53So like obviously budget was always a constraint with music videos, so it was like looking

01:58for a good partner in Europe that is cheaper, and like we found a great partnership with

02:05like Radioactive 24-7 in Lithuania, actually.

02:10So we shot it in Lithuania, and yeah, it was amazing, and like they had like the best crew,

02:16the best everything, really helpful, put everything into it, and like yeah, it was a really, really

02:22good production.

02:23Were you able to be on set?

02:25Me personally, I was actually not able to, I was involved in all the pre-production and

02:28a lot of the posts, but like diaries clashed for the actual shoot, so I was really gutted,

02:34because like it was such a cool video and a cool concept that I really wanted to be

02:38involved all the way through, but unfortunately I missed out the actual shoot.

02:41Yeah, yeah.

02:42The fun stuff.

02:43Yeah, I missed the fun stuff.

02:44Yeah.

02:45But you're here, taking your win.

02:46I'm here, I'm stepping in now in the important bit.

02:49How does it feel to win?

02:50Today's been great, yeah, yeah, it's been really good vibes, everybody's super nice,

02:55seeing some excellent work, and yeah, just really happy to be awarded with this one,

03:00it's a really special one, yeah.

03:09Have you had a favorite from the works you've seen so far?

03:11I was watching a couple of Vikkawas, I really liked the Danny Brown that was in the same

03:16category as us.

03:17The animated one?

03:18Yeah, yeah, that was really, really cool, and yeah, I'm just looking forward to seeing

03:21some more as well.

03:22Yeah, nice.

03:23Can you maybe describe the event to people who haven't been, so they don't know what

03:26to expect?

03:27Yeah, so the event, for me, it's quite personal, low-key, like very good vibes, it's not a

03:35huge event, which is really nice actually, because sometimes you've got to get lost in

03:39these bigger events, the Music Awards, especially, like the UK Music Awards are amazing, but

03:44they're bigger, so you get less of a chance to meet people and chat to people, so I've

03:49just been walking around talking to everybody, so really good atmosphere, really good vibes,

03:53so yeah, happy to be here.

03:55Can you maybe describe the energy of the event in like three words?

03:58Positive energy, bubbling, and happy.

04:13Any advice you would give to young people who are trying to get into production?

04:17Yeah, sure, I think just do it, it's just like, it doesn't matter what level you're

04:22at, the more work you do, the more you will advance, the more people you'll meet, the

04:28more contacts you'll make, and like, try and build a gang or a crew that you stick with,

04:34and like, always work together, like if you can find your crew, stick with them, and then

04:38just develop together, I think that's the best advice, you know, and then like, budget

04:43doesn't matter when you're starting, just like, just make stuff.

04:46Well, thank you very much.

04:48Alright, cheers.

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