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Manchester power-punk trio Aerial Salad are back once again to plough another melodious monster deep within our crania. The final song on their recently released ‘Roi De L’Herbe’ EP on Venn Records, new single ‘My Girl’ powers by in less than three-minutes in a flurry of buzzsaw guitars, charging drums and rousing vocals.

With an accompanying video by award-winning comedy writer and director Christopher Macken, guitarist and vocalist Jamie Munro met the film maker after he’d randomly heard Aerial Salad via a college radio station. They quickly struck up a friendship through mutual respect for each other’s work, first working together on the video for the ‘MDRN LVN’ single from last years ‘R.O.I.’ album, shot in just three hours around the streets of Los Angeles.

After Macken heard the ‘My Girl’ song, he decided to share it with some of his friends Zackass (aka Zack Holmes) from the ‘Jackass’ series and American actress and singer Harley Quinn Smith (from Cruel Summer, Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, Yoga Hosers and the indie band Cinnamon, who released their first single ‘Star’ this year). They both loved the song so much they wanted to jump in and be a part of the idea Christopher was having for the video.

“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” explains 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’, 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,” continues Jamie. “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 of getting a Paycheck, 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.”