Idris Elba retained the talents of movie mogul Guy Ritchie to direct the new Rudimental music video for ‘London Burning.’
Now 52-years-old, the super star thespian makes a cameo on the track from the new LP RUDIM3NTAL by drum-and-bass trio – Piers Aggett, Kesi Dryden and Leon “Locksmith” Rolle – who were shocked when they learned of the Elba’s Hollywood director request.
In an interview with England’s Daily Star newspaper’s Wired column, Piers said:
“Idris Elba was in town and he came in the studio, and just started rapping. We had sent him the record and he loved it, and so it was just a real organic thing.” “But then in the middle of the studio session, he just calls Guy Ritchie, and he’s on a shoot, but Idris is like, ‘Have you ever done a music video? You should do their music video.'” “And so it was just a funny day because he was just casually calling Guy Ritchie, one of the best, most famous directors, a legend.” “It’s got like a Prodigy element to it. Which we are all big fans of, and it’s just a really, really great tune.”
Famous for starring in the BBC thriller, Elba sings on ‘London Burning.’
According to Piers, making RUDIM3NTAL was “a lot of fun,” adding “The album is drum and bass, some jungle flavours too, but it is our first fully drum and bass album, all the others have been multi-genre.” “It was a lot of fun to make that kind of album, and we’ve played a lot of it in our shows over the past two years.””It does go off, yeah!”
While Idris was working with Rudimental, Kesi asked the actor if he’d record a birthday message for his girlfriend, recalling:
“He is one of the coolest people in Britain, and when he was with us, I got him to do a video for my girlfriend because it was her birthday the next day.” “That’s probably the best present I’ve ever given her, I didn’t even realise how much it would mean to her.”
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Author: Saul Goode
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