Putting The Man to work for you

Todds Spleen's picture
Submitted by Todds Spleen on Fri, 05/30/2008 - 10:11pm. ::

Unable to afford a proper camera crew and equipment, The Get Out Clause, an unsigned band from the city, decided to make use of the cameras seen all over British streets. With an estimated 13 million CCTV cameras in Britain, suitable locations were not hard to come by. They set up their equipment, drum kit and all, in eighty locations around Manchester – including on a bus – and proceeded to play to the cameras.

Afterwards they wrote to the companies or organisations involved and asked for the footage under the Freedom of Information Act.


via The Telegraph


Haydesigner in San Diego's picture
Submitted by Haydesigner in ... on Fri, 05/30/2008 - 10:41pm.

That is seriously brilliant.


cognoscentiumbrorum's picture
Submitted by cognoscentiumbrorum on Sat, 05/31/2008 - 9:55am.

The gimmick is amazing, but unfortunately, as is the case with too many cool gimmicks, the song is pretty mediocre. It wasn't terrible, but it won't get any love. Pity, 'cause it was an absolutely amazing idea, for the video.


Haydesigner in San Diego's picture
Submitted by Haydesigner in ... on Sat, 05/31/2008 - 1:53pm.

Yeah, but if it was an amazing song, they'd probably have a multitude of record companies throwing money at them to make their own music video.


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