FOLLOWING the release of their popular single ‘OTC’ The Vanities have returned with another incisive punk rock banger, ‘Reality TV’.
The song takes aim at vapid mass entertainment talent competitions in its lyrics and with its quirky and playful music video, which follows the band as they storm an audition room after several uninspiring acts. The Vanities have to be credited as one the country’s most unpretentious and uncompromising punk bands; they write up straight up punk, drawing influence from new acts like Fidlar to pioneering groups like The Clash. The growing notoriety of Alan Hannah’s fierce snarl and cutting lyrics is quickly placing The Vanities among the vanguard of Scotland’s punk scene, and ‘Reality TV’ will only strengthen that position.
Check the song and video below.
Video by Rory Cowieson
Photo by Sinead Ferguson
