“Everyone wants to be cool and British” Zackass from Jackass joins AERIAL SALAD on latest adventure

MANCHESTER’s premier power-punk trio AERIAL SALAD are back with another trademark slice of mayhem – the accompanying video shot by award-winning comedy writer and director Christopher Macken, and featuring Zackass from ‘Jackass,’ and Harley Quinn Smith.

‘My Girl’ (via Venn Records) is the final song on the band’s recently released ‘Roi De L’Herbe’ EP and steamrollers in at a shade under three minutes of the finest buzzsaw guitars, pounding drums and Skids-esque, rip-roaring vocals.

Macken and Aerial Salad vocalist and guitarist Jamie Munro struck up an unlikely friendship after the filmmaker heard the band via a college radio station before working together on the video for the ‘MDRN LVN’ single, which was shot in under three hours on the streets of Los Angeles.

More recently, Macken shared ‘My Girl’ with friends Zackass [aka Zack Holmes] and actress and singer Harley Quinn Smith (Cruel Summer, Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, and indie outfit, Cinnamon) who both instantly expressed a desire to be part of the video Macken was planning for the track.

“Realizing our creative and humour sensibilities were super aligned, we’ve been dying to create together but find the distance to be quite the obstacle,” said Macken. “That’s when I pitched the band the idea of ‘My Girl.’ Is it possible to do a music video remotely and I shoot the rest with my funny actor friends? The band seemed stoked on the idea, and I just ran with it, producing the video within a week of the initial brainstorm.

“I thought ‘everyone wants to be cool and British, since the dawn of time,’ so can we do a funny video where a guy sees Aerial Salad perform on TV, and completely changes his life to be cool like his new favourite band, and adding in the love story to really define the song. And boom we have this adorable, goofy little video. I hope it makes people smile.”

“For me, this video is symbolic of everything that’s positive in the music industry,” added Munro. “There’s so much negativity, but here we have a reasonably small punk band from England that have got Hollywood actors and directors working with them out of love of the project, not out getting a paycheck, but a real ‘you never know who’s listening or what can happen.’ This video is a rallying cry for people following their creative pursuits. You simply never know what can happen, or the friends you can make.”

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