Favourite Music Videos

1.) Paper - The Get Out Clause

The Get Out Clause, an unsigned band from Manchester, without funds a crew or equipment turned to footage from CCTV cameras to make their video. They set up their equipment in around eighty different locations in Manchester and played to the cameras. They then, under the Freedom of Information Act, wrote to companies requesting the footage to be given to them.

Only a quarter of the companies fulfilled their request, ultimately leaving them with only twenty out of their original eighty locations.

To help them promote their idea, the band turned to the man who helped to make Oasis big, Liam Walsh, who thought the idea was a brilliant way to sell the band.

2.) Duffy - Warwick Avenue (Label: A&M, Mercury)

Aimee Ann Duffy, better identified by her stage name as Duffy, is a Welsh singer-songwriter who is known for being the first welsh female in 25 years to acheive a number one in the UK Singles Charts. This was with her song "Mercy".

This video premiered on the 23rd of April 2008 on Channel 4. Almost the entire video is composed in a single shot. It starts with Duffy leaving Warwick Avenue Tube Station in the back of a cab and it ends with her still in the back of the cab wiping her tears whilst singing. The director, Daniel Wolfe, had orginially thought that this was only going to be one scene from the music video but thought it felt so real that he continued filming on to make it the whole video.