Clinic - The Second Line

What this video is

Released at the cusp of 1999–2000, 'The Second Line' arrived as Clinic made their Domino Records debut following a self-financed run on their own Aladdin's Cave of Golf label. The band had already secured John Peel's vigorous championing, with the track entering his Festive Fifty twice — once as a standalone single and once via Internal Wrangler. The song's subsequent licensing to a UK Levi's jeans advertisement…

Why it matters

The video is a primary document of the UK post-punk revival's underground phase — predating the commercial wave of the early 2000s — and of Domino Records' aesthetic identity during its formative period. Clinic's surgical-mask iconography and art-punk minimalism position 'The Second Line' as a key…