With an estimated 13 million CCTV cameras in Britain, we may just be the most watched nation on earth – but a band from Manchester has proven that this need not be a bad thing. After discovering they didn’t have enough money to make a video, the band – the superbly monikered Get Out Clause – decided to let big brother do it for them.

Apparently they set themselves and their equipment up in around 80 locations around Manchester and played to the watchful glare of the CCTV cameras.

Afterwards, they wrote to the organisations who owned the cameras asking for the footage to be released to them under the Freedom of Information Act. They then compiled it and hey presto, cheap video.

Now, the cynical reporter in me thinks this might just be a publicity stunt from the record label about to sign them – but either way the video itself is brilliant. They play in the back of taxis, on a zebra crossing in the middle of busy road, and a variety of other cool, everyday places. The music itself is the typical post-Coldplay, “eyes glazing over, thoughts dimming” sentimental pap but hey ho, can’t have everything.

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