My first day as Assistant Commissioner at Virgin Records - under the tutelage of legendary Head of Video Carole Burton-Fairbrother - was the one-take shoot for Wannabe, directed by Johan Camitz (RIP).

We stood there watching Geri wobble-walk down the steps of what’s now the St Pancras Hotel in towering Westwood heels, thinking, fuck, there’s nowhere to hide with a one-take video. Thankfully, the girls’ fuck-it approach to Westwood heels became the whole point. It was messy, proto-Brat, girl-power realness (...plus, it’s actually two takes stitched together.)

From that wonderfully ridiculous first day, I assisted Carole on pretty much all the videos from the Spice Girls albums Spice, Spiceworld, and Forever.

I also worked across Mel C’s debut solo album, Northern Star, Victoria Beckham’s first solo single, “Out of Your Mind”, and Mel B’s debut solo album, Hot.

I even directed one of the videos from that album for Mel B, “Lullaby”. Why not!