This video looks terribly earnest and dated now but I still have fond memories of Shriekback. I saw them once at the Cafe Royal I think it was (it was a small and low ceilinged room anyway). Barry Andrews, seen postulating in orange here (and looking a little like the guy in the old Tango [...]
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October 27, 2007
Video Archive: Interlude (Part 1)
A pastiche of The Interlude
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October 23, 2007
Video Archive: Landscape - Norman Bates
Landscape are best remembered for their earlier hit Einstein-a-go-go but the follow up was equally inventive. You’ll easily find the official video out on the Internet but this TOTP outing kind of distils the essence of the thing quite nicely.
Landscape were originally an avante-garde jazz combo who just embraced electronic manipulation of natural instruments and [...]
October 18, 2007
Tape Archive: London Gig Guide March 1981
A brief glimpse into who was gigging around London in March 1981.
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October 10, 2007
Video Archive: Yukihiro Takahashi-Walking to the beat
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Incomplete but interesting - this 1984 single by Yukihiro Takahashi, who was a member of The Yellow Magic Orchestra (Japan’s Kraftwerk?) actually features the voice of Iva Davies of Australian 80’s [...]
