Kim Deal shares Richard Ayoade-directed/starring video for “Big Ben Beat”

Kim Deal has shared the video for “Big Ben Beat,” one of the highlights of her great 2024 solo debut. The video was directed by Richard Ayoade, who you may know from The IT Crowd, Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace and his many Travel/Gadget Man shows, but he also has a long filmmaker CV that includes feature films (Submarine / The Double) and videos for Vampire Weekend, Arctic Monkeys and Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

The video, which also features drummer Faye Milton and Ayoade’s family, mixes paranoid elements — there’s a duality/doppelganger thing going on — with decidedly lighter moments. “Kim Deal has few equals – the starting point of her work is genius,” Ayoade says. “And then it goes up from there.” Watch the video below.

Kim Deal plays Cincinnati on Friday but properly starts her North American solo tour in March, which includes NYC-area shows at Asbury Park’s Stone Pony on March 8 with Hello Mary and Brooklyn Paramount on March 13 with Ratboys. All dates are listed below.

Kim Deal – 2025 Tour Dates:
2/21 – Cincinnati, OH @ The Woodward Theater * – SOLD OUT
3/01 – London, UK @ Barbican – SOLD OUT
3/06 – Norwalk, CT @ District Music Hall ^
3/07 – Woodstock, NY @ Bearsville Theater ^
3/08 – Asbury Park, NJ @ The Stone Pony ^
3/10 – Boston, MA @ The Wilbur &
3/13 – New York, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount &
3/14 – Philadelphia, PA @ Keswick Theatre &
3/15 – Washington, DC @ Capitol Turnaround &
3/21 – Santa Cruz, CA – Rio Theatre
3/23 – Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall % – SOLD OUT
3/24 – Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre %
3/26 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore %
3/27 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Belasco %
3/29 – Joshua Tree, CA @ Pappy and Harriet’s %
3/30 – San Diego, CA @ Observatory North Park %
6/07 – Barcelona, ES @ Primavera Sound Barcelona
6/08 – Barcelona, ES @ Paral·lel 62 (Primavera a la Ciutat)
6/10 – Antwerp, BE @ De Roma
6/11 – Paris, FR @ Le Trianon
6/12 – Bordeaux, FR @ La Rocher de Palmer
6/14 – Porto, PT @ Primavera Sound Porto
6/16 – Dublin, IR @ Vicar St
6/17 – Manchester, UK @ New Century
6/18 – Wolverhampton, UK @ The Wulfrun Hall
6/20 – London, UK @ Roundhouse
6/21 – Rotterdam, NL @ Theater Rotterdam
6/22 – Berlin, DE @ Metropol
6/24 – Zagreb, HR @ INmusic Festival

* w/ bnny
^ w/ Hello Mary
& w/ Ratboys
% w/ Morgan Nagler