Hello friends and pop lovers, just thought I’d write with news of a top EVENT that I am privileged to be hosting on Saturday, at 6pm, in the cool-place-for-clever-people that is the ICA. It’s part of the Birds Eye View film festival, now in its fourth year, which promotes work made by women directors, and it goes by the catchy name of Music Video Showcase and Q&A. Essentially, it’s a whole load of brilliant pop videos – some iconic, some rarely seen – with short live interviews with the directors and a chance for the audience to ask questions at the end.

The work is massively varied: one international section showcases four videos, one of which is an animation piece, one performance-based (Dragonette’s “I Get Around”, by Wendy Morgan), one made from found Super 8 footage spliced together (Beirut's “Postcards from Italy” dir Alma Har’el) and Sophie Muller’s latest for The Kills, all neon and 1980s special effects. . .

We have exclusives: three of the videos – made by Shelly Love, Kim Albright and Anastasia Kirilova for, respectively, tracks by Turin Brakes, Niyi and UNKLE – will have their first airing at the event. Kim Albright won the 2007 Radar Festival director’s award, and Anastasia was the 2007 BBC New Music Shorts winner: both will be talking about what difference the awards have made to their lives. The more established Shelly Love will also be speaking, as will Kim Gehrig.

Plus, the legendary, and legendarily interview-shy, Dawn Shadforth, who directed (deep breath) Kylie’s Can’t Get Your Out Of My Head and the great Rhys Ifans-Oasis video The Importance of Being Idle will be showing three of her videos and chatting. If you need reminding of her talents, look here, here and here.

And there’s so much more! Including these little gems, for Kate Nash and Teenagers, by Kinga Burza and Cat Solens’ Los Campesinos, Death To Los Campesinos.

You get the amazing thrill of seeing and hearing pop videos as they should be ie big and loud, plus the chance to ask questions yourself of all the directors interviewed. What better way to spend an early Saturday evening? (Yes, I know Harry Hill’s on, but he’s always on, and this is a one-off. . . )