Taking a break from putting the finishing touches to their debut album, Bradford band Talk To Angels are gearing up for a Parisian appearance with a few shows this week.

The band will be jetting off to the French capital next month to headline the TIME festival in the city of lights after they were invited along during their SXSW visit to Texas earlier in the year.

TIME (The Indie Music Event) will see 200 bands from around the world showcase their talent during a festival which champions the independent spirit of the music business.

Talk To Angels – like all the bands set to perform over the two-day event – have been doing their thing totally DIY, recording in basements, hallways and the odd studio, mixing in lofts and funding tours from their own pockets.

“It’s a great honour to be invited to play the headline slot on the Saturday night at TIME,” says frontman Craig Kaye “These are exciting and liberating times for us bands who want to do things our way, completely DIY. It's like the days of 1970s punk, the feeling that anything is possible with determination, belief and hard work.”

The band – Craig, Chris Robbins and Jamie Lofthouse, with Embrace’s Mickey Dale on keyboard and production duties – are warming up for their trip across the Channel with a handful of shows around the country before heading home to play at the Cockpit in Leeds on Saturday night.

To make the concert one to remember, the band are inviting fans to capture their best moments of the night on film, using their mobile phones and e-mailing the footage to them.

All the best bits will be edited into a short film of the gig which will be available on the band’s website, MySpace page and Youtube, and each contributor will be given a thank you in the closing credits.

“We want our fans to be more involved and pro-active with the band, and getting them to help film a video is a great way to interact with them,” says Mickey.

“They can film whatever they like – the band on stage, their friends in the crowd, at the bar, or in the queue for the toilets, whatever.”

Whoever sends in the best footage – as selected by Left Eye Blind’s Matt Maude, who shot the video for the band’s forthcoming single, Enemies Closer – will have their efforts rewarded with an expenses-paid trip to Paris to see the band in action. And they can take a friend. That’s travel, accommodation and weekend passes to the TIME festival all for free!

Full competition details, and details of where to send your footage, will be available on the night of the Cockpit show, so if you fancy yourself as the next Michel Gondry or Spike Jonze, make sure you don’t forget your mobile phone.

Talk To Angels are playing The Cockpit in Leeds on Saturday. Visit myspace.com/talktoangels for more details.