PREMIERE: Timothy Nelson - New York (You'll Never Be Mine)

If you're lucky enough to have been to New York, you know the magic of the big city. Even if you haven't, you've heard of the magic of the big city. Timothy Nelson had too, and as he describes, New York (You'll Never Be Mine) "really isn't about New York, it’s about going to New York".

Directed by Julia Ngeow, who is originally from Perth but now lives in Williamsburg, the stunning cinematic video kicks off with a voice-over from Nelson at a dive bar, describing his move to the Big Apple, before we see Nelson wake up and traipse the various corners of the city.

Nelson says, "On the eve of the first day of shooting, I landed at JFK to the news my accommodation had been cancelled. I had barely any money, and no means to find anywhere else so late, so I called Julia. She suggested that seeing as the first scene we would shoot the next morning involved me waking up on her couch, maybe I should just go do that for real.

"I rocked up at her apartment in Williamsburg and that was our first real life meeting of each other. Her cinematographer Richard Gianotti joined us in the morning and the three of us, along with the help of a few amazing crew members along the way, gallivanted all over the city, filming wherever we could, guerilla style, taking trains and cabs to each location Julia and Richard had carefully planned out.

Nelson describes wild nights in Chelsea, nearly taking someone out with a piano and a Brooklyn Bridge sunset — all stunningly romantic despictions of the city that never sleeps.

"We got kicked out of some places, welcomed by others. An Irish whisky bar in Queens let us use their piano for the opening scene; our friend Trevor gave us his rooftop in Brooklyn for the last shot. I got vertigo from all the eating and running I was doing for it, though at the time I just thought whenever the ground moved it was the subway below us. Everyone was focused on getting it right, but then we’d party late into the night as well. Melody, who would drive us to various locations and instigate many a Drake sing-along, took me to some beautifully filthy nightclub in Chelsea, from which I barely remember getting home - though I do recall Chris our drone operator, attempting to show me how to “thug out” on the dance floor.

"I played a show at the Sidewalk Café and bumped into an old friend from Perth who’d recently moved there. After hearing the song during my set, over a few generously poured shots he went on about how it described everything he’d felt about moving to the Big Apple. I thought was incredible given I’d written the tune before even seeing the place.

"I was sweating pure alcohol come day three, in which we conquered Central Park, Times Square, and achieved my one request of getting the “Woody Allen” shot of the Queensboro Bridge. I had one of those “I Love NYC” hats, ridiculously clipped onto my hair, miming the song in my earphones next to complete strangers on a tour bus that took us past the Trump Tower. Richard and I would literally sprint through town; with me carrying this small novelty piano Julia had borrowed from a friend. I damn near took out some poor human with it just up the road from that bar How I Met Your Mother is based on (for the record, it looks nothing like the bar in the show). In peak hour traffic, we made it to the Brooklyn Bridge just in time for the sunset."

Check out the beautiful song and video for New York (You'll Never Be Mine) above.