A musician from Glastonbury has created a music video for the folk-rock band The Levellers and a number of introduction scenes for their upcoming DVD - using figures made of wooden pegs.

Nick Parker has created the video for a song that will be released later this year, so it is currently being kept under wraps.

However, he has shared his story of creating a number of scenes to introduce songs on the band's upcoming DVD of the album Peace.

Nick said: "A couple of years ago, when I first had the opportunity to support Levellers on their One Way of Life tour, a friend Claire Cressey made some wooden peg figures of the band and sent them to me with a view to making them into a video.

"For various reasons the idea for the video was shelved, followed swiftly by the little wooden Levellers who spent the next year or so squatting in my cupboard.

"Then, back in January this year, an email came from the band asking if I'd be up for making a few introductions to go with the songs for the DVD version of the album Peace.

"It sounded like a lot of fun so I started sleeping on what to do. I had the honour of supporting them again for two nights in Bury St Edmunds in February so during the daytime on the second date I interviewed the guys and got their thoughts on the new album.

"It was a bit noisy but I got what I needed and took it home. Next I wanted to make some 'Levelly' settings so I took a trip down to their studio, Metway, in Brighton where their lovely manager Steve showed me around so I could get a few photos.

"Loads of audio was edited, hundreds of photos were taken, thousands of tiny mouths and eyes were manipulated, and great song by great song, we made our way through the album.

"There are some gloriously amusing moments to look out for – mainly down to the banter between the band members."

And then Nick, who performs with his band The False Alarms, was asked by The Levellers whether he would like to do one last actual music video for one of the songs to complete the DVD.

Nick said: "Did I fancy it? Heck yeah.

"However, lockdown was heavily upon us so I was restricted to using things I already had in the house.

"I won't go into too much detail about the video because it's not out yet, but it involved another few thousand photos and very bad arm ache.

"It was a massive pleasure to have something to immerse myself in for this rather strange period, and of course a huge honour to do it for a band I've been a fan of since my teens.

"The Levellers will be releasing the videos one by one in the run-up to the album launch in summer.

"Massive thanks to Claire Cressey for capturing the guys' likenesses so well, to Steve for letting me snoop around the studio, to Jez for giving me artistic freedom to basically mess around, and to the rest of the band for not minding my terrible interview techniques, or the strangeness I put them through in the last chorus of the actual video."