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Holy Cross Church
“I want my music to be elevating and transforming in some way.”
Noel Gallagher
“It’s going back to the beginning. Daydreaming, looking up at the sky and wondering about what life could be… that’s as true to me now as it was in the early ‘90s. When I was growing up in poverty and unemployment, music took me out of that. Top of the Pops on TV transformed your Thursday night into this fantasy world, and that’s what I think music should be.” Thus spoke Noel Gallagher of his new single in the columns of Rolling Stone magazine.
Return to the origins
The vision of Noel Gallagher, the captain of the High Flying Birds, his band since the breakup of Oasis in 2009, is also reflected in the video for Easy Now, the first single from his album Council Skies. Filmed in the working class area surrounding Holy Cross Church in St Pancras, the short film sees Milly Alcock, star of the series House of the Dragon, walking through the streets, amidst the blocks of flats.
A dragon in London
The video, directed by Colin Solal Cardo, focuses on the surroundings of the church before taking to the sky when Milly Alcock is propelled into the clouds at the end of the song. A way to illustrate once again the power of music as Noel Gallagher conceives it. The actress plays a young girl who is visibly upset and who is gradually won over by real hope in the midst of London’s greyness. All under the gaze of the Holy Cross Church.
Easy Now is the first single from Council Skies, the fourth studio album from Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.
Holy Cross Church
Built in 1888, in just one year, this church is the fruit of the work of Joseph Peacock. It sits on Cromer Street in London.
Listed as a Grade II building since 14 May 1974, Holy Cross Church is the main church in the area of Saint Pancras, in the London Borough of Camden. A time exploited to shelter homeless people in its crypt, it is still in service to this day. It contains in particular the painting by Reginald Gray entitled Santa Maria Magdalena.
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