Headlights video wins at Handle the Jandal Video awards

The music video for the Hot Grits song 'Headlights' won the coveted Golden Jandal at the Radio Active 'Handle the Jandal' award for best non-funded video last Thursday in Wellington, despite holding the distinction of being the first video to be banned by TVNZ since 1987.

Radio Active 89FM's Handle the Jandal is an annual competition for local Do-It-Yourself music video. All videos must be completely self-funded and may only use New Zealand music. A record 122 entries were submitted for the awards this year, with fifteen being chosen for the finals.

The video for 'Headlights' was produced by The Downlow Concept and features children drinking milk and going out on the town, behaviour which TVNZ apparently took issue with. Unsurprisingly, the clip also won an award for Best Exploitative tactics.

'Headlights' is the Auckland based 11 piece afro-soul band's first ever video. The song features on their debut album ‘It's too Drunk to be this Early', released on Monkey Records mid 2008.