The Most Clever Music Video of the Year (So Far)
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 05.20.08 | 10:51 AM ET
The Get Out Clause, an unsigned band from Manchester, England, didn’t have much money to spend on a music video. To get around the problem, the band performed in front of 80 closed-circuit television security cameras throughout its hometown—in a stairwell, on a bus, on a tram, in the middle of a street, and so on. The band secured some of the video through the Freedom of Information Act, then edited it into a music video for its song “Paper.”
It’s quite clever—and a bit of an unorthodox travel video of Manchester. The song isn’t half bad, either. Here’s a BBC story about the effort. The video itself is below.
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