Caffè Nero Music Video Shoot Set to Go Ahead on 6th August – EXTRAS WANTED
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What do Abney Park Cemetery, the Barbican Centre, Framlingham Castle and Savoy Steps all have in common?1
They have all been used as locations for iconic music videos.
Well, you can soon add Caffè Nero in Chislehurst to that list!
The box-like building squeezed between a travel centre and a nail bar isn’t the first place that comes to mind when you think of an iconic music video. Yet on 6th August, it’s hoping to become the setting for a cultural event that could bury Chislehurst Caves forever, if they weren’t already buried.
Last week, Caffè Nero’s head office approved a request to use the premises to film a music video for the song Some Kind of Heaven.
Written by local resident Peter Cordwell, it is a catchy love song to the café and features the chorus:
“Get there any time between 8 and 11, and you’ll find yourself in some kind of heaven.”
“The first thing that struck me at Caffè Nero was the amazing music playlist, all kinds of genres instead of the usual dirge,” he told the Chislehurst Observer. “As I started getting attached to the place, the regulars, kids, coffee, croissants, dogs – on top of the music – I was moved to write a short story called The Two Neros.”
He dedicated the book:
“For Agnes and her great staff at Chislehurst.”
During one of his many visits, fuelled by cappuccinos and apricot croissants, Peter got to know another regular, “Dean from Dean Street”, who created the artwork for his book. The marketing guru and graphic designer later transformed Peter’s song into an AI-generated sensation, which you can listen to here:
The former Mercury journalist says he visits Caffè Nero with his wife, Sandra, “four or five times a week”, adding: “I love the place.”
After hearing the song, another regular and member of the Nero backrow club offered to turn it into a music video.
Christian Hacking, founder of Boost Media Marketing, said:
“Turning Peter’s song into a music video was a must. It’s a great opportunity for us to get together, cut some shapes, and have a laugh. We are running one rehearsal on 30th July at a local church and then the shoot is on 6th August between 5:30-9.00pm. Anyone is welcome to sign up. The more, the merrier! We particularly need people with laptops and dogs”.
Asked whether he’s excited about the project, Peter said:
“I’ve got another song about buses that I’d like to shoot next.”
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Abney Park Cemetery in Stoke Newington was famously used by Amy Winehouse for her emotional 2007 Back to Black music video.
The Barbican Centre in London featured heavily in Harry Styles’ 2022 video for As It Was.
Framlingham Castle in Suffolk inspired and featured in Ed Sheeran’s 2017 hit Castle on the Hill.
Bob Dylan’s pioneering 1965 promotional clip for Subterranean Homesick Blues was filmed in the alleyway just off the Strand, near Savoy Steps.