Lille Mayes, the 10-year-old daughter of Failsafe Records label boss Rob Mayes works on the video for Conversation With My Grandmother. “We did it as a fun collaboration project,” says Mayes. “Lille took over set design, built the scenes with her belongings. Suddenly there’s a house and a table full of plates cakes & cutlery. She’s a keen painter so she took control of that, – the car, sky and ground. We shot it together, it was a very democratic set even though I’m the boss, or I thought I was”, says her proud father-producer. “We weren’t going for the full Wallace & Gromit. But getting a child’s view to the video fitted the song so well and its themes about memory, and how you recontextualise and remember details.”
