This was my generation. I live in America and, when I was 16, used to pick up NME to find out who the next great ban was. We had Blondie, Talking Heads, Iggy, The Ramones, and Lou Reed. You guys had, well, everyone else. Thank you, Britain.
Allan Ostermann Yeah mate, but Ramones started it all. Street punks who couldn't play too well. The Pistols and their entourage were a load of pretentious students, also look at Joe Strummer, his dad was a diplomat and he was playing shite r n b before he saw Ramones in mid 76 and jumped ship, having said that, i do love the Clash n Pistols, Thank you Forest Hills and those 4 stupid punks who changed it all.
I think 60s bands like The Velvet Underground and MC5 had a lot to do with it, too. I wasn't aware how many punks came from privileged backgrounds. I just saw a documentary on Paul Weller (The Jam, etc). He was a real working class hero. His dad was his manager. I respect that. Still love the others.
Pauleymack They didn't. What they did (as before them VU and MC5) was show to everyone that more or less talentless duds - or say: non-musicians - can become rock stars and have (and provide) loads of fun. In England, Punk was completely different, much more serious, much more dangerous, and way more interesting.
Allan Ostermann Indeed. Suggesting the Velvets (and practitioner of classical avant-garde, John Cale in particular) were non-musicians is pretty ludicrous
0:24 Sex Pistols 4:09 Elvis Costello 6:38 The Buzzcocks 9:32 John Cooper Clarke 13:30 Iggy Pop 22:25 Wreckless Eric 24:26 Ian Dury 26:05 Commercials 28:50 Penetration 31:53 Blondie 35:00 The Fall 37:00 The Jam 40:59 Jordan (+ Devo lurking in the background) 41:23 The Tom Robinson Band 45:31 Johnny Thunder 45:56 Elvis Costello 50:01 XTC 54:00 Jonathan Richman 54:32 Nick Lowe 56:46 Commercials 1:00:00 Siouxsie and the Banshees 1:04:14 Cherry Vanilla 1:04:21 Magazine
My introduction to the best music of the mid - late 70's fresh vibrant and so different and I am so grateful to have been a part of the punk movement as a 15 year old still love it to this day
Saw this when it aired in 1986. I was 15 punk wasn't even nostalgic then.It was still kind of recent... It was made by Granada & mostly shot in Manchester's electric circus......Amazing footage. Loved it then & love it now aged 43....I have sinced filmed many of these bands.
Was never particularly into The Jam at the time but hell they put on a show. Watching this, Penetration, Buzzcocks all live no mobiles no fancy dress no "safe spaces" I really think kids now are missing out on so much that we had.
I don't understand how I've never seen this before, it's a cultural musical epic and thanks for uploading. And those adverts I do remember. That must be Miriam Margolyes doing that cluster advert. And Roger Daltrey doing the Amex, hilarious.
I love this!!! It's a real blast from the past for me. Although I was never a punk as such, I always loved the music - especially the more 'creative' aspects of it. I'm still a massive fan of Tom Robinson and Elvis Costello, and regularly listen to them now. Thank you for uploading this gem!
Thankyou so much for uploading this! I taped this when it was on, on a V2000 cassette. All these years later I bought a V2000 player explicitly to retrieve this and put it on DVD, only to find the footage has deteriorated beyond belief! Awesome program with some superb iconic performances from The Jam, XTC, Blondie and the best version of Alison by Elvis Costello...!
WOW! How great was it to see this. This is the music that made me who I am. Buzzcocks-XTC-Ian Dury-Magazine-Wreckless Eric- all of them!! My tears of joy are falling like the sweat from Nick Lowe's chin. This has been a real treat
They were certainly memorable..and not enforced PC propaganda advertisements for inter-racial relationships and The Alphabet Tribe...you will probably know who I mean.
@@mjh5437We didn’t need advertisements for “inter-racial relationships” we had Rock Against Racism and the Anti-Nazi League to deal with racists back then, as opposed to TV channels & politicians who promote them. I think you know who I mean.
Great upload! Thanks for posting. By the way, I can't get over how many people don't know that Glen Matlock was the original bass player and main song writer of the Pistols. Sid couldn't play for toffee apples.
Incredible Upload!!! Thanks so much!!! I learned A LOT and was enamored the whole way through......only to be shot even higher with that Siouxie clip at the end!!! Can't wait to show it to my Drag Queen Daughter, she'll flip her wig fer sure!!! The Jam, Buzzcocks and Iggy spots captured my attention 100%....and now I want to know more about XTC and Tom Robinson Band!!!!!
what a freakin awesome doco. Too bad it cut out in the middle of Magazine - Bazza Adamson is still one of me all time faves. Thanks heaps doco uploader person!
Thank you Mr bullock, love yer likkle symbol, made me feel young again, keep the faith as the northern soul people say, with love from an ole traveller now living on a narrowboat, once again, thank you! Xxx
We had to go to Greenwich Village to the Golden Disc and other import shops to find punk rock records. The other kids were stuck with Zep and Skynyrd and corporate rock and the girls listened to Poco and the hippies dug the Dead. I scribbled the lyrics to Clash songs on the chalkboard in high school and the teachers just laughed. My friends couldn't believe I didn't want to go with them to hang out and hear ELP.
Thanks for this!! Had it on VHS at the time. Exactly as I remember it. The John Cooper Clarke poem is brilliant. You'll never see a nipple in the Daily Express
0:50 John screams at me "Get off your arse!" just like my Dad used to. That's where the similarities begin and end. Also the irony of having the old guard Daltrey appear in a credit card ad is spot on.
I wish that Poly Styrene and the X Ray Spex and The Slits got more exposure :D Poly Styrene is so amazing and X Ray Spex are my favorite band right now and The Slits are all about girl power :D
The Sex Pistols were a phenomenon and GREAT! I continue to love Johnny Rotten. His band PIL - Public Image Limited is one of my fav bands. The album Blue Water is really good! I love the song in the vid, "What Do I Get" . The image and now shadow of Sid Vicious will always hang over that particular era of punk and it wz so outstanding. It gave people a new look, new style of dressing that male/females loved; hair, clothes, jewelry that are still incorporated into todays' street gear. In The Chelsea Hotel, Sid Vicious carved his name in the metal of the elevator emergency key pad. Iz still there and always will be.
I feel the same way, music was at a stalemate till the Pistol brought punk to mainstream. There were Punk bands around way before them but they brought it out of the darkness. The lyric " And Englands Dreaming" probably more poignant now with Brexit LOL
And then that look was forced upon people if they wanted to play punk, and what we got by the 80s was a fascist like state of what you can play, what you can listen to, and what you have to look like. The Dead Kennedys were right, punk wasn't dead, but it deserved to die at that point.
The RAMONES were around in the early 1970’s and Malcolm McClaren totally ripped off their style and brought it back to England 🏴 Everyone’s known that for awhile now. The Sex Pistols weren’t even supposed to be a band; they were hired to promote the shoppe off Carnaby Row SEX. The owner didn’t want Malcolm McLaren ever taking their models and they were getting tired of hanging around doing nothing ffsakes. Read a book called “ England!s Dreaming” and it tells ya everything about exactly what was happening with the royal family and how John Lydon felt about the monarchy and the royal families in general. That’s why he had a great idea 💡 when the boat loaded up with amplifiers took to the Thames River at the same time the Queen was having her Jubilee and the Sex Pistols invaded the yacht 🛥️. They were fined as well arrested and charged with interfering with a vessel carrying more tonnage than was allowed. A bullshit charge for certain! I’m not even getting into The Dammed being the very first group by the time the Pistols were known. Thanks for listening. Sincerely DJP Anal Cunt; Postmortem and Kilslug Sony; Earache 🇬🇧 Columbia and TAANG!! Records @ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Boston Massachusetts Amerikkka quite obviously 🙄 Ok. The Dammed beat the Pistols by 1 year. Honest.
@@digger5521I agree with your assessment of Brexit. Sincerely DJP Anal Cunt; Postmortem and Kilslug Sony; Earache 🇬🇧 Columbia and TAANG!! Records @ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Boston Massachusetts quite obviously 🙄 Amerikkka of course..
@@camerondodge2070Google US.GOV and see for yourself what’s going on right underneath your very own nose. Jello was actually on the money though! Sincerely, DJP Anal Cunt; Postmortem and Kilslug Sony; Earache 🇬🇧 Columbia and TAANG!! Records @ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Boston Massachusetts Amerikkka quite obviously 🙄 I rest my case.
Thanks for posting D Bullock sure awakens the old memories of my days with a Mohican haircut & zips all over my clothing including my knickers exclusively for my then bf when we were up to all sorts in a bus shelter not actually waiting for a bus lol
great early clip of XTC .saw them around this time ,first punk/new wave i saw ,apart from the support band ,the Now..............fekin brill times................
Amazing!!! The Pistols with Glen, before that cartoon Sid turned it all to farce, Nascent Fall., Jam, Siouxsie and Magazine!! All clips not seen in Canada before!!
Thanks so much for this-priceless.Shame it breaks off when it does,halfway thru 'Motorcade',the best tune off one of the finest underground LPs ever made.What ever happened to rebellious youth eh
Thanks for this. Never saw the pistols saw the rest tho, even Jcc. I heard a band called Spot were playing local. I was skint, but a couple of mates went. The rest is history.
Well, I'm glad there's others out there that consider Ian Dury punk. He always was, and always will be, one of the great songwriters and vocalists of punk rock, up there with John Lydon and Jello Biafra.
Yeah, but new wave was considered part of punk in the beginning. It was called new wave so it could get places punk couldn't. For instance, Blondie are a new wave and pop rock band, but were part of the first wave of CBGB bands, playing with the Ramones and Dead Boys, and were welcomed in the community at the time. Same with Dury. It's one of those things of being punk without being punk rock, you know?
@@PAULLONDEN He was more pub rock than anything else, and he predated new wave. "New wave" like "punk" was a catch-all. A lot of stuff called punk and new wave was just power pop.
This programme was broadcast in 1991 (I think). It also had footage of The Undertones and ended with Joy Division doing "Shadowplay" on Granada TV in 1978. There may have been others...
@macabrel.a.9821If it wasn’t for the Buzzcocks there’d never have been a Green Day. They ripped off their entire act and I like them. Therefore they are thieves not to mention the fake English voice of Billy Joe Armstrong!? Wtf really.,? The Buzzcocks; Stiff Little Fingers are the absolute best example of this. Listen to them and see for yourself if you don’t agree with millions of others. Bad Religion wasn’t even around in the early years of punk’s existence until they became hugely popular in the early 90’s obviously 🙄. Sincerely, DJP Anal Cunt; Postmortem and Kilslug Sony; Earache 🇬🇧 Columbia and TAANG!! Records @ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Boston Massachusetts Amerikkka quite recently heading into oblivion 🔥
The Dammed were around a year before the Sex Pistols and they never were invented in creating a band, but instead were used by Malcolm McClaren in his shoppe on Carnabary Row: SEX the first one on its own terms. He’d exploited that for his own personal gain and told the owner that it was just a joke ( he lied 🤥 about his true intentions), knowing full well that he was going to do it anyway because that’s who he was. Read the book 📚 England’s Dreaming which tells everything you ever wanted to know about it. Thanks for listening. Sincerely, DJP Anal Cunt; Postmortem and Kilslug Sony; Earache 🇬🇧 Columbia and TAANG!! Records @ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Boston Massachusetts Amerikkka quite obviously 🙄 Just wait and see.
@macabrel.a.9821Bad Religion wasn’t even around until the early nineties. Sincerely, DJP Anal Cunt; Postmortem and Kilslug Sony; Earache 🇬🇧 Columbia and TAANG!! Records @ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Boston Massachusetts Amerikkka quite naturally 😮 Understand now?
I can remember seeing this clip of Iggy doing the passenger when I was at school and it just utterly changed my world. There was something out there beyond the mediocrity and spoon fed garbage you are told is 'normal' every day of your life and all you had to do was search it out. Just mindblowing.
The late 70s kicked off an amazing amount of creativity. Great bands and a sense of excitement that hasn't come up since, and it doesn't seem likely that it ever will. (But then before Punk there was Bohemian Rhapsody and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, so a change probably seemed unlikely then).
What about the Grunge bands of the 90s then and the Nu Metal bands of the early 00s, like Slipknot? Plenty of exciting music has happened since the 70s, much more so actually....
@@1980extremeGEvery single band from The Accused to Nirvana to the NELVINS OBVIOUSLY 🙄 they are one of the greatest bands of all time and don’t forget some others like Jane’s Addiction and Voi Vod 🇨🇦 Sincerely DIY
***** Sid definitely looked good up there, and the disaster that was his life kind of fit thematically...and he adds enormously to the legend, so yeah, you have to love Sid too ...but musically, Glen really makes the whole thing tight
I wanted to drop a quick comment on this and sat THANKS!! I have looked and searched for this little blast from the past, somewhere I have it on VHS myself but where is lost in the decades, I remember reliving the moments when this was aired and I did it again thanks to this vid, so cheers!!!!!
Love the fact that the adverts are included. A second edition of this was broadcast in 1991 as More Punk Than New Wave. 1.02:54 - Mick Hucknall, bottom right, not moving as much as his neighbours. He is more visible in The Clash footage of the same night.
Tom Robinson's Glad to be gay" a remarkable achievement for 1977, the fact that it has not lost any of it's power, and is still just as timely and relevant, is both sad and something of a miracle.
Cheers! But any documentary on punk that doesn't start with The Ramones and omits The Damned is woefully incomplete. At least it starts out with " the story begins, for television, anyways..." which is true. Both Joe Strummer and Captain Sensible admitted there probably wouldn't be an English punk scene without The Ramones. I miss these days when bands were unique and pretty much anything goes.
Because these things are always biased and revisionist. There’s always some bozo who’s gonna tell everyone who he/she thinks “mattered” and who didn’t… often times by completely ignoring them as if they never even existed. I mean, never mind the fact that The Damned were *THEE* first UK punk band to release a single, the first to release a full length album, the first to play in America, the first to break up, and the first to reform.
This is from a VHS from way back so most likely they didn’t have the rights to footage also the Damned were not only the first Brit punk band they were also the first to break up many times😂. Most of their footage was from TOTPs which is all over TH-cam now but back in the early 80s it wouldve been expensive to acquire footage from the show. Thats most likely why the Damned is missing from quite a few VHS punk docs from the 80s.
@@Shikta-poobah67 Not to mention the most musically talented (with the exception of Ian Dury and the Blockheads], let alone more musically creative than all of the UK bands in this video. Always considered third behind the pistols and the clash yet i'd vigorously argue Album #1 and #3 shAT on anything that those two released. Hell, they didn't even have The Clash on here FFS, and I'm not even a big fan, but they still should have been in the video.
Im glad John Lydon's catching me up, being only 2.5 yrs younger than me😊. But joking apart a lovely compilation of the best times ever. The 2nd being House and Rave times which i pretended to be young enough to apprieate❤😊
Lars Melsted Thomsen I'm guessing you're British? Didn't mean to offend. Iggy helped create the wake all the punks went riding on. MC5, Iggy, and Alice Cooper all seem more significant to me because they were doing stripped down, disrespectful, iconoclastic rock way before the others you mentioned.
+Carlo Dave No, i am danish ;-) And i agree, that it didnt all come out of nowhere. Don't forget The who, Velvet Underground, Bowie, Little Richard, Link Wray, jerry Lee and not least Chuck Berry, who all were significant inspirations and not least had their fair share of bad publicity due to their attitude, rawness and shock effect of their music!
Awesome early Blondie......what a classic performance so punk. So many other lesser bands that deserve so much more in acknowledgement as playing a huge part in the music revolution of the time; Penetration, Siouxsie and the Banshees, the fantastic Ian Dury and early Elvis Costello (not the poxy 80s version). The eternal question of where punk started.....many of the usual early bands acknowledge an Australian band, The Saints who started in 1973 (and were quickly banned from venues) as at least part of their influence. Check out their first single (I'm) Stranded
It's weird seeing so many comments from people claiming punk started in Britain. When I was a little Alice Cooper and Kiss-obsessed 11/12 year old Canadian kid, I used to read about the "Punk" scene happening in New York. Some of the bands weren't actually FROM New York, there were some from Cleveland or other places who made the move to New York, but New York was definitely where it was all coming together. There were little 2-page spreads with black & white photos in "Rock Scene" I think it was, featuring the Ramones , Blondie, Heartbreakers, etc, and then the January '76 first issue of "Punk" Magazine came out at the end of '75. But the thing was, I didn't know what any of those groups sounded like because I don't think any of them had records out, and most of the groups they were inspired by (Velvet Underground, MC5, Stooges, New York Dolls, etc) never sold very well, so their albums which are today all considered "proto-punk" classics, were out of print at the time. If you were lucky, you could find one or two of them in the delete bin for cheap. Later on, when the Sex Pistols came along and made headlines in Britain, they were called "Punk" because I guess they shared some things in common with the American Punk bands, like the general sense of dissatisfaction with the stale and bloated state of "rock" music at the time, not to mention a similar aesthetic sense with the tight clothes and black leather and lots of them looking like Richard Hell with his spiked hair and torn shirts, safety pins and all that - but as much as the Pistols and the English Punk scene had in common with the earlier American Punk scene, there were just as many differences. I liked the amateurishness of the English scene, and that's what inspired me to start a band of my own much more than the American groups (although I learned by playing along to the Ramones), but saying Punk started in Britain is just silly.
You're totally right that what we think of as punk now started in the US but, like a lot of music, the interpretation of the term changed before it reached the general public. It's sort of like goth or grunge. Ask the general public to name goth and grunge bands and they'll name Manson and Nirvana. Anyone who was there will name Joy Division and Prong instead, but by the time the public heard about punk, goth, or grunge, they'd all been subjected to a certain amount of streamlining. The scenes solidified and homogenized and by the time the public embraced them, they'd become a product rather than a movement. Personally, I consider bands like Blondie, Talking Heads, and Television as punk, but I'd have a hard time convincing anyone under 30 today. There was some transfer of punk to Britain pretty early on, however. The New York Dolls went over there earlier. The Ramones were there by July '76. Patti Smith was over there early, twice. Blondie and Television were both there in May '77. They inspired a whole bunch of Brit bands who exaggerated American punk and carried it back to America. It's the same thing that happened to rock & roll in general. We invented it. The Brits exaggerated it and sent it back. The first time they called it "the British invasion" and it was bands like the Beatles and Stones. The term "New Wave" was meant to include the next wave of Brit bands bringing the next wave of rock, the Sex Pistols, etc. Personally, I think punk lost a little of it's intellectual/literary side when it moved from bands like Television, Talking Heads, and Blondie to the Sex Pistols and the Clash.
America invented the work Punk for sure, but at the same time as MC5, the Stooges and VU were over in the States doing their thing we had a similar music scene in the UK with T Rex, Bowie and many others performing similarly, not to mention pub rock, with Ducks Deluxe, Doctor Feelgood and the like. The social environment in the UK in 1976 / 77 was really poor and what led to punk in the UK bore little common ground with either the US or earlier UK stuff. The Stranglers of course were touring in the UK from 1975 too and were the most commercially successful UK band of that period that might be called punk, even though they probably weren't... Either way, not important, I just love great music and to argue about the origins is hardly punk in itself ;-)
Who cares. All the best music comes from Britain one way or another. It's irrelevant where something started. It will always find a new meaning and be perfected in Britain.
I remember watching this at the time and wondered how The Stranglers, the most commercially successful band of the period were totally ignored.... Tony Wilson though and his Kronies had their own version of events though I guess...
I'm so glad the commercials were not edited out. those were enjoyable bits of culture.
Calgon take me away!
nice live footage. that version of "passenger" is epic!
Yess!! Ich wünschte man könnte das komplette Konzert irgendwo sehen.
This entire video is absolutely packed with iconic performances. WOW
This was my generation. I live in America and, when I was 16, used to pick up NME to find out who the next great ban was. We had Blondie, Talking Heads, Iggy, The Ramones, and Lou Reed. You guys had, well, everyone else. Thank you, Britain.
Allan Ostermann Yeah mate, but Ramones started it all. Street punks who couldn't play too well. The Pistols and their entourage were a load of pretentious students, also look at Joe Strummer, his dad was a diplomat and he was playing shite r n b before he saw Ramones in mid 76 and jumped ship, having said that, i do love the Clash n Pistols, Thank you Forest Hills and those 4 stupid punks who changed it all.
I think 60s bands like The Velvet Underground and MC5 had a lot to do with it, too. I wasn't aware how many punks came from privileged backgrounds. I just saw a documentary on Paul Weller (The Jam, etc). He was a real working class hero. His dad was his manager. I respect that. Still love the others.
Pauleymack They didn't. What they did (as before them VU and MC5) was show to everyone that more or less talentless duds - or say: non-musicians - can become rock stars and have (and provide) loads of fun. In England, Punk was completely different, much more serious, much more dangerous, and way more interesting.
Allan Ostermann Buddy, you had IGGY POP!
Allan Ostermann Indeed. Suggesting the Velvets (and practitioner of classical avant-garde, John Cale in particular) were non-musicians is pretty ludicrous
0:24 Sex Pistols
4:09 Elvis Costello
6:38 The Buzzcocks
9:32 John Cooper Clarke
13:30 Iggy Pop
22:25 Wreckless Eric
24:26 Ian Dury
26:05 Commercials
28:50 Penetration
31:53 Blondie
35:00 The Fall
37:00 The Jam
40:59 Jordan (+ Devo lurking in the background)
41:23 The Tom Robinson Band
45:31 Johnny Thunder
45:56 Elvis Costello
50:01 XTC
54:00 Jonathan Richman
54:32 Nick Lowe
56:46 Commercials
1:00:00 Siouxsie and the Banshees
1:04:14 Cherry Vanilla
1:04:21 Magazine
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Oh good heavens! What a time for the tape to run out! My favourite song from my favourite band! This is such a good doco!
I know you put this out over ten years ago, It just came out on my feed. I’m glad it did. Thanks for finding this and sharing it with everyone.
same
My introduction to the best music of the mid - late 70's fresh vibrant and so different and I am so grateful to have been a part of the punk movement as a 15 year old still love it to this day
Me too
Saw this when it aired in 1986. I was 15 punk wasn't even nostalgic then.It was still kind of recent... It was made by Granada & mostly shot in Manchester's electric circus......Amazing footage. Loved it then & love it now aged 43....I have sinced filmed many of these bands.
Was never particularly into The Jam at the time but hell they put on a show. Watching this, Penetration, Buzzcocks all live no mobiles no fancy dress no "safe spaces" I really think kids now are missing out on so much that we had.
Fuckin right Athelstan...
Thanks for the Reckless Eric. Fing great.
Excellent! the adverts too!
Wow, glad someone else watched and taped this. My introduction to punk. Loved, The Fall, Wreckless Eric and The Jam. The whole lot actually.
Damn shame that tape failed. That last track was amazing. Thank you so much for posting this.
I don't understand how I've never seen this before, it's a cultural musical epic and thanks for uploading. And those adverts I do remember. That must be Miriam Margolyes doing that cluster advert. And Roger Daltrey doing the Amex, hilarious.
It does sound like Miriam, riding high off the success of her Caramel ad!
För min syster på hennes 50 års dag! Grattis! Love foreever!
It was an absolute must I saw this having seen it on Channel 4 when it was originally broadcast. Thank you so much for posting 👍
This wasn't the full show though, surely. It's not what I remember. There was much more I'm sure.
I love this!!! It's a real blast from the past for me. Although I was never a punk as such, I always loved the music - especially the more 'creative' aspects of it. I'm still a massive fan of Tom Robinson and Elvis Costello, and regularly listen to them now. Thank you for uploading this gem!
You were there dont ya lover
Thankyou so much for uploading this! I taped this when it was on, on a V2000 cassette. All these years later I bought a V2000 player explicitly to retrieve this and put it on DVD, only to find the footage has deteriorated beyond belief! Awesome program with some superb iconic performances from The Jam, XTC, Blondie and the best version of Alison by Elvis Costello...!
Thank you so much for making this available, it's priceless.
WOW! How great was it to see this. This is the music that made me who I am. Buzzcocks-XTC-Ian Dury-Magazine-Wreckless Eric- all of them!! My tears of joy are falling like the sweat from Nick Lowe's chin. This has been a real treat
Brilliant. I have a VHS version of this. I recorded it when the programme was first aired on TV - Complete with all the adverts of the time.
The 80's commercials were just so magical
They were certainly memorable..and not enforced PC propaganda advertisements for inter-racial relationships and The Alphabet Tribe...you will probably know who I mean.
@@mjh5437We didn’t need advertisements for “inter-racial relationships” we had Rock Against Racism and the Anti-Nazi League to deal with racists back then, as opposed to TV channels & politicians who promote them. I think you know who I mean.
Aw....do you miss the old racist and homophobic days then 😂 @@mjh5437
It was the 70's !
great performance by the jam on here
This is awesome! The music, commercials! Nice snapshot of early 80s England
Great upload! Thanks for posting. By the way, I can't get over how many people don't know that Glen Matlock was the original bass player and main song writer of the Pistols. Sid couldn't play for toffee apples.
+aristotle358 He could`nt even play for heroin!
electricleg Chuckles! :-)
cheers
+aristotle358 for toffee apples, i gotta brush up on my british slang :)
+keith deringer I'm British and I've never said for toffee apples. People normally say for toffee.
Allison is my favorite love song of all time and this solo version is really top notch. Brings tears to my eyes just listening.
Costello is top notch.I still have the album "my aim is true"👍
A love song? I guess so.
Incredible Upload!!! Thanks so much!!! I learned A LOT and was enamored the whole way through......only to be shot even higher with that Siouxie clip at the end!!! Can't wait to show it to my Drag Queen Daughter, she'll flip her wig fer sure!!! The Jam, Buzzcocks and Iggy spots captured my attention 100%....and now I want to know more about XTC and Tom Robinson Band!!!!!
yes I do so love my punk, what a fantastic time in our lives, plus a goldmine of the pioneers of punk.....loving all this.......ap
what a freakin awesome doco. Too bad it cut out in the middle of Magazine - Bazza Adamson is still one of me all time faves.
Thanks heaps doco uploader person!
Great to see this again, ta for the upload. :)
Thank you Mr bullock, love yer likkle symbol, made me feel young again, keep the faith as the northern soul people say, with love from an ole traveller now living on a narrowboat, once again, thank you! Xxx
I was so lucky to se a lot of these when I was a yoof.
Goodness I haven't seen this since its original airing around 1987?? Thanks so much for posting & in great quality
what a huge load of memories there.siouxsie & the banshees for me.what a dream girl,my idol.
I have this on a VHS somewhere. I think it was August 1986 when i recorded it. Not seen it for years so thanks for posting.
Top upload!! Love Tony Wilson/Factory - the Ian Dury prayer was great as well!
Also thank you for keeping the 80s adverts on! - memory lane!!! :D
Total Time Capsule - adverts and all! Thank you!!
We had to go to Greenwich Village to the Golden Disc and other import shops to find punk rock records. The other kids were stuck with Zep and Skynyrd and corporate rock and the girls listened to Poco and the hippies dug the Dead. I scribbled the lyrics to Clash songs on the chalkboard in high school and the teachers just laughed. My friends couldn't believe I didn't want to go with them to hang out and hear ELP.
Thanks for this!! Had it on VHS at the time. Exactly as I remember it. The John Cooper Clarke poem is brilliant. You'll never see a nipple in the Daily Express
Boy, Iggy's been looking for his shirt for a long time now.
I didn't realize he ever had a shirt lol
lol
hahahaha, heavenly comment!
Wow! I saw this when it was broadcast! Have never forgotten it! Thanks for the upload.
Lived those times as a young lad in the 70s. I used to buy the NME when i was 10 and looking back i can't believe i read it.
great set of videos but those old skool commercials were geeking me out haha!
0:50 John screams at me "Get off your arse!" just like my Dad used to. That's where the similarities begin and end.
Also the irony of having the old guard Daltrey appear in a credit card ad is spot on.
I wish that Poly Styrene and the X Ray Spex and The Slits got more exposure :D Poly Styrene is so amazing and X Ray Spex are my favorite band right now and The Slits are all about girl power :D
Thanks so much for this!
The Sex Pistols were a phenomenon and GREAT! I continue to love Johnny Rotten. His band PIL - Public Image Limited is one of my fav bands. The album Blue Water is really good! I love the song in the vid, "What Do I Get" . The image and now shadow of Sid Vicious will always hang over that particular era of punk and it wz so outstanding. It gave people a new look, new style of dressing that male/females loved; hair, clothes, jewelry that are still incorporated into todays' street gear. In The Chelsea Hotel, Sid Vicious carved his name in the metal of the elevator emergency key pad. Iz still there and always will be.
I feel the same way, music was at a stalemate till the Pistol brought punk to mainstream. There were Punk bands around way before them but they brought it out of the darkness. The lyric " And Englands Dreaming" probably more poignant now with Brexit LOL
And then that look was forced upon people if they wanted to play punk, and what we got by the 80s was a fascist like state of what you can play, what you can listen to, and what you have to look like. The Dead Kennedys were right, punk wasn't dead, but it deserved to die at that point.
The RAMONES were around in the early 1970’s and Malcolm McClaren totally ripped off their style and brought it back to England 🏴 Everyone’s known that for awhile now. The Sex Pistols weren’t even supposed to be a band; they were hired to promote the shoppe off Carnaby Row SEX. The owner didn’t want Malcolm McLaren ever taking their models and they were getting tired of hanging around doing nothing ffsakes. Read a book called “ England!s Dreaming” and it tells ya everything about exactly what was happening with the royal family and how John Lydon felt about the monarchy and the royal families in general. That’s why he had a great idea 💡 when the boat loaded up with amplifiers took to the Thames River at the same time the Queen was having her Jubilee and the Sex Pistols invaded the yacht 🛥️. They were fined as well arrested and charged with interfering with a vessel carrying more tonnage than was allowed. A bullshit charge for certain! I’m not even getting into The Dammed being the very first group by the time the Pistols were known. Thanks for listening. Sincerely DJP Anal Cunt; Postmortem and Kilslug Sony; Earache 🇬🇧 Columbia and TAANG!! Records @ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Boston Massachusetts Amerikkka quite obviously 🙄 Ok. The Dammed beat the Pistols by 1 year. Honest.
@@digger5521I agree with your assessment of Brexit. Sincerely DJP Anal Cunt; Postmortem and Kilslug Sony; Earache 🇬🇧 Columbia and TAANG!! Records @ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Boston Massachusetts quite obviously 🙄 Amerikkka of course..
@@camerondodge2070Google US.GOV and see for yourself what’s going on right underneath your very own nose. Jello was actually on the money though! Sincerely, DJP Anal Cunt; Postmortem and Kilslug Sony; Earache 🇬🇧 Columbia and TAANG!! Records @ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Boston Massachusetts Amerikkka quite obviously 🙄 I rest my case.
Thanks for posting D Bullock sure awakens the old memories of my days with a Mohican haircut & zips all over my clothing including my knickers exclusively for my then bf when we were up to all sorts in a bus shelter not actually waiting for a bus lol
Bit of a goer, were you Claire?
been looking for this awesome .thank you.
So glad I found this (without looking) Fate!
Thanks for uploading this!
Brilliant. Nice to see Jordan getting a few words in. Cool woman.
Great stuff! Thank you for this salvaging.
great early clip of XTC .saw them around this time ,first punk/new wave i saw ,apart from the support band ,the Now..............fekin brill times................
Amazing!!! The Pistols with Glen, before that cartoon Sid turned it all to farce, Nascent Fall., Jam, Siouxsie and Magazine!! All clips not seen in Canada before!!
This is fantastic stuff. I just miss this kind of raw insight and integrity. Just makes me realise how truly owned and fucked we are today.
These are great but there's good stuff in every generation.
It got worst!
thankyou for the upload. brilliant 👏👏👏
the great Ian Dury drumming with Wreckless Eric!
Such rare early footage. Thank you!
Thanks so much for this-priceless.Shame it breaks off when it does,halfway thru 'Motorcade',the best tune off one of the finest underground LPs ever made.What ever happened to rebellious youth eh
Thank you so much that was amazing.
Ahhhh man, Buzzcocks........SOOOO good!!!!
Thanks for this. Never saw the pistols saw the rest tho, even Jcc. I heard a band called Spot were playing local. I was skint, but a couple of mates went. The rest is history.
Well, I'm glad there's others out there that consider Ian Dury punk. He always was, and always will be, one of the great songwriters and vocalists of punk rock, up there with John Lydon and Jello Biafra.
He was more part of the "new wave" as the video heading indicates , just like E. Costello , who was hardly "punk".
Yeah, but new wave was considered part of punk in the beginning. It was called new wave so it could get places punk couldn't. For instance, Blondie are a new wave and pop rock band, but were part of the first wave of CBGB bands, playing with the Ramones and Dead Boys, and were welcomed in the community at the time. Same with Dury. It's one of those things of being punk without being punk rock, you know?
Yeah Dury was more part of new wave, he never gozzed on anyone or stuck a safety pin through his ball sack put it that way.
@@PAULLONDEN He was more pub rock than anything else, and he predated new wave. "New wave" like "punk" was a catch-all. A lot of stuff called punk and new wave was just power pop.
Doctor who called him punk! 😅
This is fantastic! Thanks for uploading it!
This programme was broadcast in 1991 (I think). It also had footage of The Undertones and ended with Joy Division doing "Shadowplay" on Granada TV in 1978.
There may have been others...
'86 on granada
I had this program on a VHS tape somewhere, but in truly atrocious quality. Thanks for posting.
Despite the punk movement, The Pistols and the Clash were real legends in the entire history of music over the ages
@MACABRE L.A. NO THE IN BUZZCOCKS .. oh ... you're an American
Stranglers are the real legends
@macabrel.a.9821If it wasn’t for the Buzzcocks there’d never have been a Green Day. They ripped off their entire act and I like them. Therefore they are thieves not to mention the fake English voice of Billy Joe Armstrong!? Wtf really.,? The Buzzcocks; Stiff Little Fingers are the absolute best example of this. Listen to them and see for yourself if you don’t agree with millions of others. Bad Religion wasn’t even around in the early years of punk’s existence until they became hugely popular in the early 90’s obviously 🙄. Sincerely, DJP Anal Cunt; Postmortem and Kilslug Sony; Earache 🇬🇧 Columbia and TAANG!! Records @ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Boston Massachusetts Amerikkka quite recently heading into oblivion 🔥
The Dammed were around a year before the Sex Pistols and they never were invented in creating a band, but instead were used by Malcolm McClaren in his shoppe on Carnabary Row: SEX the first one on its own terms. He’d exploited that for his own personal gain and told the owner that it was just a joke ( he lied 🤥 about his true intentions), knowing full well that he was going to do it anyway because that’s who he was. Read the book 📚 England’s Dreaming which tells everything you ever wanted to know about it. Thanks for listening. Sincerely, DJP Anal Cunt; Postmortem and Kilslug Sony; Earache 🇬🇧 Columbia and TAANG!! Records @ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Boston Massachusetts Amerikkka quite obviously 🙄 Just wait and see.
@macabrel.a.9821Bad Religion wasn’t even around until the early nineties. Sincerely, DJP Anal Cunt; Postmortem and Kilslug Sony; Earache 🇬🇧 Columbia and TAANG!! Records @ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Boston Massachusetts Amerikkka quite naturally 😮 Understand now?
This is fantastic
I can remember seeing this clip of Iggy doing the passenger when I was at school and it just utterly changed my world. There was something out there beyond the mediocrity and spoon fed garbage you are told is 'normal' every day of your life and all you had to do was search it out. Just mindblowing.
I've seen him in action three times and he never lets the side down, always amazing.
Angela Payne no-no-no! only Elvis!
Слоны Идутнасевер
...and XTC
merci antifrost livs with this Sound respekt
The late 70s kicked off an amazing amount of creativity.
Great bands and a sense of excitement that hasn't come up since, and it doesn't seem likely that it ever will.
(But then before Punk there was Bohemian Rhapsody and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, so a change probably seemed unlikely then).
What about the Grunge bands of the 90s then and the Nu Metal bands of the early 00s, like Slipknot? Plenty of exciting music has happened since the 70s, much more so actually....
@@1980extremeGnu metal is shit
@@1980extremeGEvery single band from The Accused to Nirvana to the NELVINS OBVIOUSLY 🙄 they are one of the greatest bands of all time and don’t forget some others like Jane’s Addiction and Voi Vod 🇨🇦 Sincerely DIY
@@deanpesaturo6401 The best Grunge band in my opinion, and my favourite, Is Alice in Chains.
Awesome upload, thanks! The Jam were excellent!
the Pistols were so much better with Matlock on bass
1967PONTIACGTO he moves alot,and everyone moves alot,it was truly an energetic show,they really should have kept him
***** Sid definitely looked good up there, and the disaster that was his life kind of fit thematically...and he adds enormously to the legend, so yeah, you have to love Sid too ...but musically, Glen really makes the whole thing tight
+1967PONTIACGTO especially 'cause he was the main songwriter
+1967PONTIACGTO Sid looked good? He looked like what he was, a strung out heroin addict with zero musical talent.
+1967PONTIACGTO Sid looked good? He looked like what he was, a strung out heroin addict with zero musical talent.
Awesome piece of history....THANKS!
the jam was truly epic here!!
I wanted to drop a quick comment on this and sat THANKS!! I have looked and searched for this little blast from the past, somewhere I have it on VHS myself but where is lost in the decades, I remember reliving the moments when this was aired and I did it again thanks to this vid, so cheers!!!!!
Love the fact that the adverts are included.
A second edition of this was broadcast in 1991 as More Punk Than New Wave.
1.02:54 - Mick Hucknall, bottom right, not moving as much as his neighbours. He is more visible in The Clash footage of the same night.
Oh, I watched this on TV as a teenager...must have been 1985 or 86! Great post, thanks.
Tom Robinson's Glad to be gay" a remarkable achievement for 1977, the fact that it has not lost any of it's power, and is still just as timely and relevant, is both sad and something of a miracle.
@George Otty On the one hand - I agree with you, on the other - I also don't agree with you.
Wow. Just wow. Thanks a lot. A lot!
Cheers!
But any documentary on punk that doesn't start
with The Ramones and omits The Damned is woefully incomplete.
At least it starts out with " the story begins, for television, anyways..." which is true.
Both Joe Strummer and Captain Sensible admitted there probably wouldn't be an English punk scene without The Ramones.
I miss these days when bands were unique and pretty much anything goes.
Agreed
We watched a doc the other night about modern Irish bands….never mentioned SLF. WTF was that all about
Never mind the pistols or Iggy or xtc,, The Buzzcocks !! Brilliant thrash, lookxat him play that guitar.
Fast track, what do I get
What a fantastic compilation! Sorry, I'd add more, but I must go pogo.
How in the hell did they miss The Damned???
Same way they missed the Ramones
Because these things are always biased and revisionist. There’s always some bozo who’s gonna tell everyone who he/she thinks “mattered” and who didn’t… often times by completely ignoring them as if they never even existed. I mean, never mind the fact that The Damned were *THEE* first UK punk band to release a single, the first to release a full length album, the first to play in America, the first to break up, and the first to reform.
Goddammit!!!!
This is from a VHS from way back so most likely they didn’t have the rights to footage also the Damned were not only the first Brit punk band they were also the first to break up many times😂. Most of their footage was from TOTPs which is all over TH-cam now but back in the early 80s it wouldve been expensive to acquire footage from the show. Thats most likely why the Damned is missing from quite a few VHS punk docs from the 80s.
@@Shikta-poobah67 Not to mention the most musically talented (with the exception of Ian Dury and the Blockheads], let alone more musically creative than all of the UK bands in this video. Always considered third behind the pistols and the clash yet i'd vigorously argue Album #1 and #3 shAT on anything that those two released. Hell, they didn't even have The Clash on here FFS, and I'm not even a big fan, but they still should have been in the video.
I love the fact the original adverts are on this TV classic!
i remember when guitars had leads plugged in
hell of an era! bourgeoise, money and drugs kill them all. thank for uploading.
The Sex Pistols actually had some very melodic music.
Because it was Pop music
Indeed! Not to everyone’s taste! But loads of bands came along after them! 🙂
Im glad John Lydon's catching me up, being only 2.5 yrs younger than me😊. But joking apart a lovely compilation of the best times ever. The 2nd being House and Rave times which i pretended to be young enough to apprieate❤😊
Elvis Costello 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
What a great posting. Thanks.
Iggy Pop stands out. The performance is not just a nostalgic curiosity.
+Mark Kelly. Yep. Gotta love that crazy intensity.
+Mark Kelly That first TV appearance by the sex pistols isn't really nostalgic curiousity either. Neither is Elvis Costello or The Buzzcocks!!
+Cheryl McLachlan-Spencer i know, but none of the ones i mentioned are nostalgic curiousities today, if you ask me....ok, iknow... you didnt! ;-)
Lars Melsted Thomsen
I'm guessing you're British? Didn't mean to offend. Iggy helped create the wake all the punks went riding on. MC5, Iggy, and Alice Cooper all seem more significant to me because they were doing stripped down, disrespectful, iconoclastic rock way before the others you mentioned.
+Carlo Dave No, i am danish ;-) And i agree, that it didnt all come out of nowhere. Don't forget The who, Velvet Underground, Bowie, Little Richard, Link Wray, jerry Lee and not least Chuck Berry, who all were significant inspirations and not least had their fair share of bad publicity due to their attitude, rawness and shock effect of their music!
Great documentary! Thanks!
Wreckless Eric with Ian Dury on drums!
Awesome early Blondie......what a classic performance so punk. So many other lesser bands that deserve so much more in acknowledgement as playing a huge part in the music revolution of the time; Penetration, Siouxsie and the Banshees, the fantastic Ian Dury and early Elvis Costello (not the poxy 80s version).
The eternal question of where punk started.....many of the usual early bands acknowledge an Australian band, The Saints who started in 1973 (and were quickly banned from venues) as at least part of their influence. Check out their first single (I'm) Stranded
It's weird seeing so many comments from people claiming punk started in Britain. When I was a little Alice Cooper and Kiss-obsessed 11/12 year old Canadian kid, I used to read about the "Punk" scene happening in New York. Some of the bands weren't actually FROM New York, there were some from Cleveland or other places who made the move to New York, but New York was definitely where it was all coming together. There were little 2-page spreads with black & white photos in "Rock Scene" I think it was, featuring the Ramones , Blondie, Heartbreakers, etc, and then the January '76 first issue of "Punk" Magazine came out at the end of '75. But the thing was, I didn't know what any of those groups sounded like because I don't think any of them had records out, and most of the groups they were inspired by (Velvet Underground, MC5, Stooges, New York Dolls, etc) never sold very well, so their albums which are today all considered "proto-punk" classics, were out of print at the time. If you were lucky, you could find one or two of them in the delete bin for cheap. Later on, when the Sex Pistols came along and made headlines in Britain, they were called "Punk" because I guess they shared some things in common with the American Punk bands, like the general sense of dissatisfaction with the stale and bloated state of "rock" music at the time, not to mention a similar aesthetic sense with the tight clothes and black leather and lots of them looking like Richard Hell with his spiked hair and torn shirts, safety pins and all that - but as much as the Pistols and the English Punk scene had in common with the earlier American Punk scene, there were just as many differences. I liked the amateurishness of the English scene, and that's what inspired me to start a band of my own much more than the American groups (although I learned by playing along to the Ramones), but saying Punk started in Britain is just silly.
You're totally right that what we think of as punk now started in the US but, like a lot of music, the interpretation of the term changed before it reached the general public. It's sort of like goth or grunge. Ask the general public to name goth and grunge bands and they'll name Manson and Nirvana. Anyone who was there will name Joy Division and Prong instead, but by the time the public heard about punk, goth, or grunge, they'd all been subjected to a certain amount of streamlining. The scenes solidified and homogenized and by the time the public embraced them, they'd become a product rather than a movement. Personally, I consider bands like Blondie, Talking Heads, and Television as punk, but I'd have a hard time convincing anyone under 30 today. There was some transfer of punk to Britain pretty early on, however. The New York Dolls went over there earlier. The Ramones were there by July '76. Patti Smith was over there early, twice. Blondie and Television were both there in May '77. They inspired a whole bunch of Brit bands who exaggerated American punk and carried it back to America. It's the same thing that happened to rock & roll in general. We invented it. The Brits exaggerated it and sent it back. The first time they called it "the British invasion" and it was bands like the Beatles and Stones. The term "New Wave" was meant to include the next wave of Brit bands bringing the next wave of rock, the Sex Pistols, etc. Personally, I think punk lost a little of it's intellectual/literary side when it moved from bands like Television, Talking Heads, and Blondie to the Sex Pistols and the Clash.
satomiwa no one gives a
America invented the work Punk for sure, but at the same time as MC5, the Stooges and VU were over in the States doing their thing we had a similar music scene in the UK with T Rex, Bowie and many others performing similarly, not to mention pub rock, with Ducks Deluxe, Doctor Feelgood and the like. The social environment in the UK in 1976 / 77 was really poor and what led to punk in the UK bore little common ground with either the US or earlier UK stuff. The Stranglers of course were touring in the UK from 1975 too and were the most commercially successful UK band of that period that might be called punk, even though they probably weren't... Either way, not important, I just love great music and to argue about the origins is hardly punk in itself ;-)
Who cares where it started, we all benefited from the resulting music
Who cares. All the best music comes from Britain one way or another. It's irrelevant where something started. It will always find a new meaning and be perfected in Britain.
Watched this so many times, just brilliant. Stop gobbing at me!
I remember watching this at the time and wondered how The Stranglers, the most commercially successful band of the period were totally ignored.... Tony Wilson though and his Kronies had their own version of events though I guess...
So true, Stranglers are one of the best bands yet everyone ignores them