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A group of teenagers have filmed their ingenious if dubious attempts to sneak into Cornish music festival Tunes In The Dunes and the video is now racking up the views on YouTube.

Fin Wallace, a 16-year-old Truro School pupil, filmed him and his mates Jack and Harri sneaking into the festival dressed as bin men and then getting more courageous and blagging their way backstage within inches of singer Gabrielle performing to thousands on stage.

The lads faked high vis 'crew' vests and media passes to test out their cunning plan, which worked surprisingly easily.

Fin, who is currently taking his GCSEs, has made a series of YouTube videos including a music video for his love song to Tesco's £3 meal deals.

He decided to go big for his latest video though.

The video states: "The plan was simple. Get into the festival as bin men, get backstage as media."

Fin, who wants to work in the film industry, did some research and found pictures of high vis vests worn by festival crew at last year's event. With the help of his friends, they recreated them.

Then they noticed that a band member had put an image of a backstage pass on online.

"I worked a bit of Photoshop magic and had an almost perfect replica," said Fin.

The video shows them posing as bin men complete with bin bags and litter pickers before they disappear through an entry point into the heart of the festival, which was held on Perranporth beach last weekend.

You can hear the boys freak out as they get inside.

Fin, who lives in Truro, says on camera: "So we have just got in like first time. They did not even question us. Too easy, too easy. You didn't even ask us any questions."

They then move to the backstage area and show a security guard a fake media pass.

The guard asks: "You got a wristband as well?"

The lads say they haven't and he replies: "Oh that's fine, no worries. You're with Gabrielle right?"

They tell him they are and are "doing a college project".

As they giggle, Fin can be heard on camera saying: "We're backstage and we haven't got a ticket to this place at all."

They can be seen filming Gabrielle from the back of the stage before the video ends with the words: "Thanks Tunes In The Dunes, see you next year ;)"

We contacted Fin and asked him if there had been any comeback after the video went on YouTube: "No and we didn't do it to get anyone in trouble.

"We did not stay that long when we got in - we only stayed for five minutes in the festival and when we got backstage just got the clips and left. We didn't try and get in to stay for the whole festival."

Tunes In The Dunes did not wish to comment on the video.