The Arkells looking for illegal drone footage from Winnipeg concert: ‘Get us the hard drive’
Posted August 26, 2024 2:37 pm.
“Tell me what you want right now, you can get it.”
It’s a popular lyric by Canadian rock band The Arkells.
What the band wants – and is hoping to get – is footage from last week’s show in Winnipeg.
The tricky part? The video the band wants to get their hands on is nowhere to be found, as it was filmed by an illegal drone during Friday’s Burt Block Party.
“During the show, there was a drone that was coming very close to the stage, and I figured I just missed the memo that the festival was operating a drone. All good,” said frontman Max Kerman in a social media video.
“Throughout the show, I sort of developed a relationship with the drone, and I’d signal it to come closer, and then I’d sort of push it away, and it would act accordingly. I was having a great time.”
But it turns out, Kerman says, the drone was being operated without a permit. He adds Winnipeg police arrested the operator of the drone, though multiple reports indicate that’s not accurate.
“So Winnipeg police, we want the footage,” Kerman said, again under the assumption the operator was indeed arrested. “It looked like it was gonna be kind of cool footage. I don’t know what the protocol is, how much time he has to spend in the slammer, but we’re just hoping you’re lenient with him, and you can get us the hard drive.”
It looks like The Arkells are waiting for someone to come “knocking at the door” with that video footage.
