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Catfish And The Bottlemen's Video for "Fallout" Encourages Choreography in Cars

So you get pulled over? So what.

So apparently the lyrical jumping off point for this song was singer Van McCann's origin story. The tale begins with his parents eloping to Australia while barely out of their teens. Sadly they found themselves unable to conceive (Van’s mother having been badly hurt in a childhood car crash). The pair proceeded to hold down various part-time jobs to fund several rounds of unsuccessful IVF, the third and final of which produced their son. Who they then called Van.

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Fastforward many years and one school expulsion later and Van forms a band, (questionably) calls said band Catfish And The Bottlemen, who then make a video which largely takes place in a… van. Funny how things work out.

But seriously, this is a great video. Mostly because it involves several bouts of utterly incongruous choreography. In a van. It is also brilliantly British—some dude is reading the tabloids waiting for tea, another is trying to make small talk about Strictly Come Dancing, rows of semi-detached brick houses are the anywhere-British vista out the vehicle's window. Meanwhile the music is just the sort of surging indie-pop—think the Mystery Jets meets the Kooks (!)—that the Brits do so well. Get out of the car, mind the traffic, get down.

Kim wishes more portly men in white vans would kill the engine and get out and dance. She's on Twitter - @theKTB.