Our buddy Saam Farahmand (in the pink sweater) is the "hottest" music video director in the world right now. Klaxons heap praise on him in a recent interview with a free magazine which describes itself as "a lifestyle title for 21st century media savvy creatures." But it seems the dictaphone was dodgy because the interviewer decided to give Iranian-born Saam a nice Anglo-Saxon name. The misnomer now threatens to spark an international incident…

Here’s an excerpt from the offending piece where the interviewer asks Klaxons about their videos…

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Simon: We’ve been very fortunate in that respect because we’ve been friends with Simon Farrowland, the director, since before we even started the band. He did visuals for The Rapture and for Claw, when they were still around. His stuff is incredible and we wanted to work with him from day one.
Simon: We trust Simon. He had us shaving our chests and jumping up and down on trampolines, which was odd, but we’re kind of alright with it now! We definitely want him to do all the stuff for this record.
Simon: Simon has done all our videos so far except for Atlantis To Interzone. We really liked the idea of developing an ongoing relationship with one director. I’ve not seen anyone who’s done five or six videos with the same band for a while now. Michel Gondry and Chris Cunningham did it, but there doesn’t seem to be much continuity anymore.

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We called up Saam to see what he made of it …

Vice: Is this Saam Farahmand or Simon Farrowland?
Saam: I know relations with Iran are not very good at the moment but this is ridiculous.

It reminds us of when the German and Polish Jews had to change their names. Like from Gil Goldberg to George Green.
I hope it was just an honest mistake.

What are you up to at the moment?
I’m pitching to Hollywood a biopic about Tom Cruise. I want Tom to play himself.

What else?
I watched 300 at the IMAX. It was so good I chewed a hole through my hoodie. I want to end up being an ambassador for IMAX.

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