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The posh schools of rock are YouTube's smash hits
Robert Mendick, Chief Reporter02.10.08
Sixth-form girls from Benenden appear in bikini tops washing a car or dancing on the steps of the school in micro skirts.
A boy from Harrow strums a guitar naked in front of the school while a blonde girl - presumably smuggled in - gyrates in front of the building.
Welcome to the latest craze to sweep YouTube - a series of spoof rock videos made by students and even teachers at some of the most expensive schools in the country.
Sixth-formers have recorded versions of the satirical hit single Rockstar, performed by the Canadian grunge band Nickelback. The song features such celebrities as Kid Rock, Gene Simmons and Nelly Furtado mouthing the song's lyrics.
At least seven schools have produced videos in which pupils and teachers mime to the lyrics. The craze may have started at a maths and computing specialist school in Huddersfield, whose version attracted almost 8,300 hits on YouTube. Since then it has been taken up by £27,000-a-year Benenden, Harrow, Epsom College in Surrey, Downe House in Berkshire and King Edward VI School near Birmingham.
The expertly edited Harrow video shows pupils and at least two teachers at the £28,000-a-year school with a variety of London backdrops, including Trafalgar Square. A performer in the Benenden video, Tansy Aspinall, daughter of Damien Aspinall, said: "It was so much fun. It's the funniest thing to look back on and remember messing around with your friends at school."
Reader views (3)
See the marlborough college video! it was first as it was uploaded onto youtube on the 13th of december 2007. It features pupils mocking the "cadbury ape" advert amongst other humourous set ups!!
- Tom, London, England
The Benenden muck up week video is the best :P
- Fi, Benenden
our epsom one is the best and pretty sure we did it first i hope, if we cud find out wen all the others were don be good to no.
- Edwood1111, london
