It's 16 years since Vaughan Arnell created the classic video for Robbie Williams 'Angels'. Now he's gone and remade the video for Olly Murs with a knowing cameo from Robbie himself.

It was an interesting video for me to edit. I started by cutting Robbie's 'Angels' video to Olly's track a week before the shoot so that Vaughan and his team had a template from which to recreate the video shot for shot. Olly's track is a minute shorter than 'Angels' so I had to try and keep the feeling and flow of the original whilst losing 60 seconds of material, concentrating on the iconic shots that we associate with Angels, the ring in the sand, the motorbike and not forgetting the chopper!

Another little obstacle to overcome was that the original city location had been demolished, however the Barbican provided an ample replacement with its straight lines and angular geometry giving us the same feel as the original.

When it came to editing the new original material, I started by replacing my template I'd created the week before shot for shot or as close as I could. With this in place and now requiring extra space for the scene when Olly meets Robbie it was now essential to rebalance the video slightly to make sure that the video worked as a standalone piece for Olly as well as being an homage to 'Angels'.

16 years is a long time in music videos but a good video is timeless and hopefully this homage proves it.

Another year another UKMVA nomination! Four nominations for best edit in the past five years is not too shabby I suppose however I seem pretty adept at not winning this year I was nominated for my edit for Emil Nava's Jessie J 'Wild'...however I have no complaints as every year there is a worthy winner, this year Sophie Fourdrinoy pulled it out the bag with her edit for Yeah Yeah Yeahs 'Sacrilege'. As soon as I saw it I knew it wouldn't be my year again, a truly great video and a stunning edit....I just wished I'd done it!

Congratulations to Dave & Owen for their win at the UKMVA's....fully deserved in my humble if slightly biased opinion! To bring real heart and emotional depth to such a technical music video is a real and difficult skill, which is why I think the video resonated with so many people. Dave & Owen are real masters at understanding and then interpreting the meaning behind the songs they get to work on, which in turn makes my job so much easier. I always say that directors like this make my work look so much better than it actually is!! Keep 'em coming is what I say!

So it's not quite Wet Wet Wet territory but 3 weeks at No.1 is about as good as it gets these days! It's also amassed 33 million hits on Youtube at the time of posting. Apparently it was originally recorded as a demo by Leona Lewis although the links to that have disappeared since this arrived on the scene so you'll have to imagine what that might have sounded like.....or not.

Ok so this video came out over a year ago now but Corin Hardy and I also did this extended edit, with loads more dialogue and some scary sweary action from the brilliant Neil Maskell (Kill List). We got the label to send us the stems of the track and we used them to re-score it into the soundrack of this short film This version was for the deluxe edition CD and has never made its way on to the interweb....no-one's actually said this could be uploaded but I won't tell anyone if you don't!

(No Ed Sheerans were harmed in the making of this video).

Two videos I edited have been nominated at this years MTV VMA's!

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What do you get when Naor Aloni and his trusty DOP Jake Scott spend 24 hours straight shooting in the desert? Delirium?....maybe...but you might also get this for Bastille!