Close Lobsters - Let's Make Some Plans

What this video is

Close Lobsters were a five-piece band from Paisley, Scotland, who rose to prominence as part of the C86 movement after their track 'Firestation Towers' appeared on the NME's landmark 1986 cassette compilation. 'Let's Make Some Plans' was released on Fire Records in 1987 during the sessions that produced the debut album Foxheads Stalk This Land, and it became one of the band's most enduring songs — later covered by…

Why it matters

One of the defining artefacts of the 1987 UK indie jangle pop wave, 'Let's Make Some Plans' exemplifies the C86 aesthetic at its most fully realised: twin chiming Rickenbacker guitars, driving tempo, and sardonic melodicism. Its video is a document of the low-budget promo culture that sustained…