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The James Malcolm Band played their debut concert at Savor Cinema in Fort Lauderdale on December 18, 2025. The show sold out, and it ended with the room on its feet.
We filmed it as a full production rather than a single locked-off camera at the back of the room. Multiple angles, the band, the crowd, and the moments between songs that usually get lost in a concert recording.
This came out of an ongoing relationship. I first worked with Jason Milgram and Settle Down Productions on the Knock on Marble music video, and as the band started performing live the productions grew with them.
Covering a sold-out room is a different discipline to covering a rehearsal. The crowd moves, the light moves with the show, and nothing repeats. Multiple angles are not there for variety, they are there because any single camera is going to be blocked or dark or pointed the wrong way at the moment that matters, and the only defence is having somewhere else to cut to.
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About the band
The James Malcolm Band is a Fort Lauderdale project working in country, Americana and country-rock storytelling. Lead singer and co-founder Malcolm Philip Flavell named it in tribute to his late father. Their debut album Never Too Late came out through Settle Down Productions on November 26, 2025, and following this concert Settle Down reported the band had passed 250,000 Spotify streams.
You can find them at jamesmalcolmband.com.
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This concert is one chapter of a longer relationship. Read the full James Malcolm Band and Settle Down Productions case study.
A sold-out room changes how you cover a show. There is nowhere to reposition once it starts, so the angles have to be decided before the doors open and then held. We covered the band, the room, and the gaps between songs, because a concert film that only shows the stage misses half of why the night worked.
The band had released Never Too Late eight weeks earlier. This was the first time that material was played live to an audience that had come specifically for it.
