Bricklayers who mime songs using building materials as instruments have become viral sensations.
Jamie Felstead, 25, from Nottingham, and, Jack Dunkley, 38, and Paul Carnall, 37, from Leicester, have earned “loads of banter’’ on the building site where they are known as “the TikTokers’’
They started making skits on TikTok in 2021 under the handle @brickingit1.
And earlier this year, a video of them belting out Sweet Child O’ Mine by Guns N’ Roses hit 3.6 million views.
They decided to take it up a notch and started rocking out with shovels as guitars, buckets as drums, and bricks as DJ decks, all while still in their work gear on the building site.
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Now they have got more than 600,000 followers, with their biggest hit being a video of them lip-syncing to American Boy by Kanye West and Estelle, using a spirit level as a microphone, which got 33.7 million views.
Since their channel has grown, they also claim they’ve been approached by television shows, such as Squid Game: The Challenge.
Jamie said: “Now when we ask for materials and stuff (at work), they’ll say, `Take that round to the TikTokers’ rather than saying our names… we get loads of banter from it.
“Everyone on site says it even if they haven’t seen us on TikTok – they’ll just know us as that.’’
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They have even had interactions with celebrities – when they uploaded a video singing Foundations by Kate Nash in October, she followed them.
“It’s crazy really, when you see their names pop up, it’s hard to pinpoint highlights because there’s been so many,’’ Jamie added.
Meanwhile TikTok users flocked to have their say on the videos in their thousands.
One wrote: “Imagine waking up in the morning looking out your window and seeing this without the sound.”
Another added: “This is why construction takes forever and I’m not even mad.”
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