New music: Slow Club – Beginners

When Daniel Radcliffe guest-edited Time Out earlier this year he asked if he could interview Sheffield's Slow Club. In fact, he's such a fan of the band that not only was the interview full of brilliantly flustered moments ("All right! [Pause] Next question! [Nervous laugh]"), he also agreed to star in the video for their new single Beginners, from their excellent Paradise album. And Radcliffe doesn't just appear in a cameo role, he is the focus of a one-take video filmed in a pub in Finsbury Park that involves him drinking the dregs of other people's pints and snarling intensely into the camera. It's not exactly Harry Potter.

We asked Charlie from the band how it all came about. "After meeting him for the first time we were pretty blown away by how much he knew about our songs," he said, "and when the time came to make a video, the director Lucy Needs had the script ready and thought it couldn't hurt to ask." So, what was he like to work with? "We were only on set for an hour or so as we had a show that night but I was surprised by just how focused he was. I've never been near a movie set but I guess being in such a concentrated state of mind is what it takes to get certain things on film." Our favourite bit is where he stands on a pub table and it topples over. We've all been there, right?