How to make the video of your second single go stonkingly viral? Easy – get a pantomime politician to dance (badly) and ape vocals (more badly) amid cheap-looking rooftop pot plants. That appears to have been to the ploy of London act The Good Suns, using Lembit Opik, and boy has it worked – to the tune of thousands of views and an Evening Standard story. As always with these things though, you wonder if the gimmick really helps. I’m 51% amused and 49% freaked by the video, but – hang on – what did I think about what? The what? Oh, the song! Of course – er… hmm. It turns out I thought nothing about the song. Apologies to… nope, sorry, I’ve forgotten the band’s name too. But Lembik was excellent, wasn’t he? Listening again (but determinedly not watching the car-crash-TV footage this time), I think, yeah, it’s not bad – lovely guitar jangles, a nice fade-to-verse thing going on, earnest vocals and… can I watch Lembik again now? Please?
