sentences:  In a 2008 interview with "Uncut", Gruff Rhys stated that "Northern Lites" "didn't have a video" and suggested this as the reason the track was not a bigger hit than it was.The director who was originally scheduled to work on the video took up an offer of a Red Stripe commercial in Jamaica, leaving the band to collaborate with McCarthy.According to Rhys the group met the original director later and told him "We understand, we'd have done the same."