Leamington band the Eco Worriers flew the flag for their home town in an international video competition.

They entered a contest run by the Climate Outreach and Information Network, an organisation set up to spread the word about climate change. Part of this is Aliveearth, an alternative to the Live Earth concerts, in which bands record their own performances and post them online rather than use the energy required to stage a concert.

The Eco Worriers have put the video for their song Bigfoot on YouTube. The song compares the developed world's use of coal and oil with the mythical Yeti-like creature said to inhabit the forests of North America. The film was made with this in mind.

The band's singer Chris Philpott said:

"The video took two days to make and is a very low budget, low carbon-footprint production. We made all the props ourselves, researched the images, and filmed at home and on the Campion Hills. The music was recorded live without any techno fixes." Watching the video it is clear that expense has been spared. Obviously recorded at somebody's house, it features the band's drummer Will Britton wearing a gorilla suit and leaving 'carbon footprints' on a somewhat dated-looking carpet.

The band are shown performing in the garden, with Bigfoot playing bongos. Bigfoot is also seen crazily rolling his eyes, and pursuing members of the band around Campion Hills.

And to illustrate the message, the beast is then shown cutting a carbon footprint in half with a pair of scissors. It is entertainingly shambolic, but avoiding the slick production values of the Live Earth stars seems to be the point.

Mr Philpott added: "Madonna, who headlined the London concert has nine homes and a carbon footprint of 1,000 tonnes-a-year, ten times the average in Britain. "Sting promoted a gas-guzzling Jaguar and has a fortune of £185 million. These people are not like us."

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