Rock the Nanny State

Poking around on the Happy Flu chart I landed on this clever site and found this story, which, maybe everybody blogged the living hell out of it when it was published but I was on vacation that week so I never noticed. Anyway, I'm grinning at it tonight. Straight out of Manchester, England:

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.

"We wanted to produce something that looked good and that wasn't too expensive to do," guitarist Tony Churnside told Sky News.