Viagra Boys 'Bog Body' by Eoin Glaister
David Knight - 27th Mar 2025
Viagra Boys' Sebastian Murphy has a new girlfriend, and she's 3000 years old, in Eoin Glaister's video for Bog Body - a tour de force of comedy horror.
Glaister essentially tells the story of the song, and as he happily admits, the subject matter plays to his particularly strengths as a director.
In classic VB fashion, the track combines surly rock 'n roll power with a idiosyncratic lyric sung by Murphy - it involves a description of an ancient body being found perfectly preserved under ice in a bog, leading to his immediate adoration - and possessiveness. Eventually he insists that 'You're just jealous of her darkened skin and her dainty nose'.
This quirky concept all the motivation that Glaister needs to bring a unique love story to the screen, which starts when the reanimated zombie-like Bog Body walks into a London boozer, and begins her ancient dance ritual - before Seb enters the pub whilst she's doing full splits on the pub carpet.
And so their passionate affair begins, with the well-preserved ancient woman acquiring the taste for a rock 'n rolll lifestyle. What could possibly go wrong?
“I love bog bodies," says Glaister. "I’m obsessed. Thank GOD someone finally wrote a song about one. Dream gig really, got to spend the day in the pub with my mates watching a Bog Lady dance to one of my favourite bands. Mammoth effort from an extraordinarily talented bunch. Up the Bog!”
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Credits
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Production/Creative
- Director
- Eoin Glaister
- Producer
- Jens Nielsen
- Creative Director
- André Jofré
- Production Company
- SF
- Executive Producer
- DM
- 1st AD
- Danny Rumbelow
- Bidding Producer
- Lily Ashton
- Production Manager
- Yann Selakovitch
- Production Assistant
- Isabella Simpson
- 2nd AD
- Beth Jespersen
- Runners
- Eli Parkinson, Ben Poulton
Camera
- Director of Photography
- Spike Morris
- Focus Puller
- Raul Menendez
- 2nd Ac
- Rory Power
- Camera Trainee
- Jessica Timbs
Lighting/Grip
- Gaffer
- Hélio Ribeiro
- Sparks
- Sebastian Nowell, Nuno Beirao
Art
- Production designer
- Syd Harmony
- Art Assistant
- Theo Zeal
Wardrobe
- Costume designer
- Ellie Walker
- Styling Assistant
- Henry Hawksworth
- Sfx Makeup
- Georgia Brown, Jordan Glancy
- Hmu Trainee
- Elena Davis
Casting
- The Bog Lady
- The Bog Lady
Editorial
- Editor
- Jean-Philippe Blunt
- Compositor/Online
- Jack Sheldrake
- Sound Design
- Aaron Taffel
- Graphics Design
- Tally Francis
Grading
- Colourist
- Alex Gregory
- Colour Producer
- Hannah Jarrold
- Colour grade company
- Harbor Picture Company
VFX
- Cgi
- @Studio.Spirit.View
- Vfx Artists
- Nikita Zhavoronkov, Vitaliy Mitrofanov
- Matchmove
- Denis Baulin
Agent
- Director's Representation
- H
Commission
- Label
- Shrimptech Enterprises
- Artist Services
- Arketyp Group
- A&R
- Oskar Ekman
- Senior Project Manager
- Joe Austin
- Manager
- Ella Schafer
Misc
- Prosthetics
- Natasha Lawes
Other credits
Thanks To
Arri Rental, SHL London, Estelle Hristova, Gus Sharpe, RU
David Knight - 27th Mar 2025