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“Cash Machine”
“Cash Machine” cover
Single by Hard-Fi
from the album Stars of CCTV
Released 24 January 2005,
26 December 2005 Re-Release
Format CD, Maxi CD, 7"
Recorded Staines, 2004
Genre Indie Rock
Length 3:43
Label Warner Music
Writer(s) Richard Archer
Producer Wolsey White, Richard Archer
Hard-Fi singles chronology
-- "Cash Machine"
(2005)		 "Tied up too Tight"
(2005)
Re-release chronology
"Living for the Weekend"
(2005)		 "Cash Machine"
(2005)		 "Better Do Better"
(2006)
Alternate covers
Cover for the chart ineligible original release
Cover for the chart ineligible original release

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History

Hard-Fi in the ATM Version of the video for Cash Machine
Hard-Fi in the ATM Version of the video for Cash Machine

Archer describes this song as being about "Having no money", the song however, is much deeper than that, it tells of the kind of life Archer may have lived before reaching success, "Go to a cash machine, to get a ticket fare, message on the screen says don't make plans your broke" and "I try to skip the fare, ticket inspectors there", another issue that he mentions is "my girlfriend's test turned blue (she had become pregnant). Hard-Fi are an English Indie rock band formed in Staines, Surrey in 2003 . . I can't afford to be a daddy so I leave tonight".

The original release of Cash Machine was not intended by the band to be chart eligible, instead It was released to get the band radio play and hype for the following release, Tied Up Too Tight. " Tied Up Too Tight " is the second single from Hard-Fi 's debut album Stars of CCTV. As a result it was released with a free sticker, a stunt pulled to force the single into being released. [1][2] The single sold approximately 3,000 copies, which was about how many copies of the single were actually released and would have reached #40 had it been eligible. [3]

The band had pre planned to release the song later which turned out to be on 26 December 2005, where it reached #14 in the UK Singles Charts, #15 in the US Modern Rock chart and top 40 in the Netherlands, Italy and Ireland. Events 1481 - Battle of Westbrook - Holland defeats troops of Utrecht. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company (OCC on behalf of the British record industry Hot Modern Rock Tracks (originally called Modern Rock Tracks) is a music chart in the United States that has appeared in ''Billboard'' magazine since September The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world [4]

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Music Videos

There are three different music videos for the song.

ATM version

Directed by Dougal Wilson This is the second video made but is however the one that is used on television due to that many channels would not play the original as it featured too much illegal activity. [5] is a more literal interpretation of the lyrics of the song (for example, Archer trying to use a cell phone while singing "I try to phone a friend / my credit's in the red"). It also shows the interior of a cash machine staffed by miniature humans who are working in conditions akin to coal mines. Coal mining is the extraction or removal of Coal from the Earth by Mining. The images are similar to the Fire planet from season 3 of Lexx. The video shows these people involved in all steps of making the money, from cutting down the trees used for the paper to painting the money to pushing it through the slot when someone requires it. The workers finally rebel, and the interior of the machine is destroyed in a series of explosions. Archer comes to the machine shortly after these events and, finding a message declaring the machine out of service, again proclaims, "Oh knickers!"

Dougal Wilson, the director of the video, is also known for directing "Fit But You Know It" by The Streets, Dream by Dizzee Rascal and Tribulations by LCD Soundsystem. " Fit But You Know It " is a song by The Streets. It was the lead single of The Streets second Album A Grand Don't Come for Free and Mike Skinner (born 27 November 1978) more commonly known by his stage name The Streets, is a Rapper from Birmingham, England " Dream " is the fifth single from British rapper Dizzee Rascal and the second from his second album Showtime. Dylan Mills (born 1985 in Bow, East London) known professionally as Dizzee Rascal, is a British Rapper, Record producer and "Tribulations" is the seventh single from LCD Soundsystem released on September 27, 2005. LCD Soundsystem is the musical project of producer James Murphy, co-founder of Dance-punk label DFA Records.

Original version

Directed by James Shanks

This is the original video which has their boss, "Mr. Big," telling the band that "the reason you boys are so skint is because the record company hasn't paid us. " He orders them to steal the tapes from a courier at Heathrow Airport. The band, wearing masks of political figures such as Tony Blair and Queen Elizabeth II, ends up mostly fighting each other while Archer discovers the case believed to hold the tapes. Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair (born 6 May 1953 is a British Politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to For the ship see RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Context States headed by Elizabeth II He is held at gunpoint by the courier, but saved by the other band members. They take the case to a hideout to discover that it only contains the courier's lunch. Archer declares, "Oh knickers!" The video is interspersed with shots of the band playing in a field near an airport as large planes fly overhead. In the United Kingdom, Ireland and some Commonwealth nations knickers is a word for women's Undergarments George Cruikshank, whose It contains a sly reference to their idols the Clash: during the performance in the field, Archer pulls a mask off of bassist Kai Stephens' face - in the video for 'Rock the Casbah', when Joe Strummer reveals guitarist Mick Jones' face. For the debut album by The Clash see The Clash (album The Clash were

Archer explains that "The budget was less than £1,000. Richard John Archer (born January 18, 1977) is the frontman of UK Indie-rock band Hard-Fi. The whole budget was pizza, beer and world leader masks. The rest was favours from friends, but for the second one we had much more money. "

"When we made that single we weren't signed to a major label yet but a small independent (who we're still signed to but have licensed to the major). So we had no money, we'd made this little mini-album for just £300 in a lock-up in Staines on a moldy old laptop that kept crashing. And we thought we needed a single and a video for it. But we had no money. A mate of mine was pretty good with a camera, and we decided to make a Heist movie, because we'd seen a documentary about a heist and the U2 'Beautiful Day' video - obviously that was done with CGI graphics and hundreds of thousands of pounds, but we thought let's use our brains, our resources, what's round us. We live right underneath Heathrow Airport, let's go and do it for real. So, we scouted the area, worked out which way the planes were flying, and got up early one morning, got the gear over the fence, set up and assessed the risks: Best case scenario, we could get away with it - unlikely; or we could get moved on, that wouldn't be so bad; arrested - tricky; or shot - dead. That's pretty bad.

But we were there for about half an hour. The security must have seen us with all this gear, playing a gig at the end of the runway and thought we must've had permission. The hardest bit was we had a portable stereo playing the track to mime along to, which sounded loud in the room but outdoors with a 747 going over your head and the ground shaking you can't hear anything. So, if you look carefully we're all out of sync. And then we'd gone by then.

I love it when a plan comes together. "[6]

"We were trying to make an impressive looking video with no money. And of course, the airport's on our doorstep so we thought we'd use it. The guy who was directing it went into the visitors centre and said 'I'm moving into the area. Can you tell me where the planes will be coming in tomorrow cos I want to know how they relate to the house I'm buying. ' "So we found out which way they were coming in, got the gear over the fence and set it up thinking that any minute now, we'll be out of here and it will be all over. But I think the people who saw us - a band set up and playing music - though they must have permission otherwise its too ridiculous, so they left us to get on with it. So we got what we needed then quickly got out of there. "[7]

Alternative version

Directed by Ben Crook

The third video is an X-rated version of the video which the band put up as a download for mobile phones and is still available on iTunes. iTunes is a proprietary digital media player application introduced by Apple Inc The video follows a ten-pound note through several owners. It begins with the group's lead singer, Richard Archer, getting the note from a cash machine and giving it to a friend. The friend uses it to buy a beer. The bartender keeps the note and puts it toward buying drugs. The drug dealer collects money from a man on the street and gives the note as change. The man's wallet is pinched by a woman and given to another man, who takes the note and later gives it to a stripper. The club owner takes the note from the stripper, but loses it in the alley behind the club, where it is found by Archer.

Archer says "When you first buy a mobile phone what's the first thing you do?" "most the traffic on mobile phones is obviously pornography, and we're just filling the niche between pornography and music, put them together and there you find the alternative Cash Machine video"

Track listings

Original Release

  1. "Cash Machine"
  2. "Sick Of It All"
  3. "Cash Machine" [Old Video]

Re-Issue

  1. "Cash Machine"
  2. "Cash Machine" [Acoustic]
  1. "Cash Machine"
  2. "Cash Machine" [Roots Manuva Dub]
  3. "Cash Machine" [New Video]
  4. "Cash Machine" [Old Video]
  5. "Cash Machine" [Making Of New Video]

Cash Machine - EP

  1. "Cash Machine"
  2. "Tied Up Too Tight"
  3. "Sick of It All"
  4. "Seven Nation Army" (The White Stripes cover)

Charts

Cash Machine has been listed for 12 weeks on the UK Singles Chart, 4 weeks in the Germany Singles Top 100 3 weeks in the Italian Top 50, 2 weeks in the Irish Top 50 and 1 week in the Swedish Top 60 . " Tied Up Too Tight " is the second single from Hard-Fi 's debut album Stars of CCTV. " Seven Nation Army " is the first track on the album Elephant by American Alternative rock band The White Stripes. The White Stripes is an American Garage rock band, formed in 1997 in Detroit, Michigan. The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company (OCC on behalf of the British record industry It entered the UK singles chart at #14 on January 3, 2006. Events 1431 - Joan of Arc is handed over to the Bishop Pierre Cauchon. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. It reached #53 in the Euro 200 Chart.

Chart (2005) Peak
position
UK Singles Chart[8] 14
US Modern Rock[9] 15
Italy Singles Top 50[10] 26
Dutch Top 50 35
Ireland Singles Top 50[11] 39
Euro 200[12] 53
Sweden Singles Top 60[13] 60
Germany Singles Top 100[14] 75

Alternative covers

Original Release

CD Promo

External links

References

  1. ^ Will tied up to tight chart? Note: Drummer Steve Kemp comfirms the informartion in this topic under the name "Steve-fi"
  2. ^ Clash and burn with Hard-Fi
  3. ^ Clash and burn with Hard-Fi
  4. ^ Hard-fi - Cash Machine
  5. ^ Hard-Fi : Media
  6. ^ Hard Fi Interview - INTERVIEWS - I Like Music
  7. ^ Clash and burn with Hard-Fi
  8. ^ Hard-fi - Cash Machine
  9. ^ US Modern Rock
  10. ^ Hard-fi - Cash Machine
  11. ^ Hard-fi - Cash Machine
  12. ^ Euro 200
  13. ^ Hard-fi - Cash Machine
  14. ^ Hard-fi - Cash Machine
Hot Modern Rock Tracks (originally called Modern Rock Tracks) is a music chart in the United States that has appeared in ''Billboard'' magazine since September European Hot 100 Singles has been compiled by Billboard and Music & Media magazine since March 1984 Discogs, short for discographies, is a Website and Database of information about Music Recordings including commercial releases promotional YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload view and share Video clips YouTube was created in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload view and share Video clips YouTube was created in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees Steven Michael Kemp plays drums for the band Hard-Fi. Originally from Lancaster, he moved to London in his late teens due to a course and never left
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