Thanks to my friend Ziggy of Asheville, NC for sending this my way. The Get Out Clause is an unsigned band from Manchester, UK. Their song ‘Paper’ is decent enough, but the real story here is the video.
They’ve created quite an original piece by going around and performing in front of various security cameras scattered throughout the city. It was a clever way of circumventing that whole ‘having no money to film a video’ peskiness.
Afterwards they wrote to the organizations that owned the cameras and asked for the footage under the Freedom of Information Act. God bless this twisted world of paranoia and hi-tech gadgetry we live in.
See Also:
The Get Out Clause (website)
The Get Out Clause (myspace)
They cheated loads: half of the stuff wasn’t even filmed on cctv! See here
Thanks Sophie. I still give them kudos for the concept. Their guitarist did have a good point…
“If we had only used cctv and nothing else the video itself would have been very one dimensional with no interesting shots of people’s reactions. But there was no big camera crew or production company.”
–Tony, The Get Out Clause