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Bleachers Turn Moving Ice Cream Truck Into Stage In New Video

10/29/2014
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(Radio.com) When you're spending months on the road, tour life can drag on, but Bleachers have found a way to keep things fresh: by not only touring in an ice cream truck, but also performing on top of it while blazing through a winding road.

If that seems crazy know that it was all in good fun for their new "Rollercoaster" video, the Springsteen-indebted single from their debut album Strange Desire. Singer Jack Antonoff, who also plays guitar in fun., wanted to go a less obvious route for the video and channel the visuals he saw as a kid.

"The idea of getting on top of a car and playing on a highway felt distinctly '90s in a way that excited me about videos I saw growing up," Antonoff told Pitchfork, who premiered the video.

However, there was a bit of a hitch with the video, about which Antonoff talked to Radio.com earlier this month. The ice cream truck apparently almost crashed while they shot the clip.

"It wasn't scary in the moment, because we didn't know how dangerous the situation was," Antonoff told Radio.com over the phone days after shooting the clip. "It's not some crap where someone says they were in danger, like we literally were in a very, very treacherous situation, which makes the video more exciting if you know what were were up against, like, 'Oh, well, that's the moment right before the horrible thing almost happened.'"

But as Antonoff told us this scary moment ended up being a good thing in the long run. "It's good because you put yourself in a dangerous situation to make something and it feels cool that you tried," he said. "Not that we did that on purpose, but that's what happened

"I want people to know that when they watch the video, that, you know, it was like real life crazy danger."

Watch it here.

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