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We hate copout live videos for singles.

  • November 15, 2011
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"Oh hey everyone I've run out of money at the end of the campaign / I can't get all the band members in the same room to shoot a proper video / someone's dead, here's a montage of other songs being performed with a few shots of the moment in the gig when the song in question was being sung, hope you like it, I'm off down the pub BYEEEEE love The Product Manager xxx"

We're trying to think of one of these videos from the last twenty years that isn't awful.

Are there any?

No there are not.

So how do you make a live video worth watching?

Answer: make your live shows worth watching.

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