"We're the stars of CCTV"

A Manchester band has found a novel way of using CCTV cameras to their advantage.

Setting up kit and playing to cameras all over Manchester, the band then asked for the footage from the council under the freedom of information act and made a music video out of it.

"We wanted to produce something that looked good and that wasn't too expensive to do," guitarist Tony Churnside explains on the bands MySpace page.

Interestingly, only a quarter of the organisations the band contacted fulfilled their obligation to hand over the footage – perhaps predictably, bigger firms were reluctant, while smaller companies were more helpful – but that still provided enough for a video with 20 locations.

"We had a number of different excuses as to why we weren't given the footage, like they didn't have the footage. They delete after a certain amount of time, so if they procrastinate for long enough, they can claim it's been deleted" the band explained.

The video is below.