A brilliant live bans and such great songs. Martin Gordon was a genius, nobody else could put 'electro encephalograph' into a song, not even Frank Zappa!!
25 yrs later, my brother and I still agree that the best gig (and he became stage manager at SECC in Glasgow) we ever went to was Squeeze, Radio Stars, and Eddie and the Hot Rods in Cardiff Top rank, 1978.By far the best band on the bill were Radio Stars! They were so unbelievibley entertainingly brilliant. Gods bless 'em. The best of Rock and Roll.
So I'm fifty, coked-up and bored off my fucking mind in some pub and this comes on last night; if I heard it in the seventies it's slipped my mind, but I suddenly woke up and thought; I'll have a bit of this. Quality!.
Strange to think that ten years previously, lead singer Andy Ellison was in a cult 60s psychedelic band called John's Children...with a certain Marc Bolan on guitar no less!!! Met and saw Andy quite a few times at various Marc Bolan conventions and he was still acting the total nutter on stage even then.
He used to watch the test card on the BBC. "What on earth are you doing watching the test card (on the BBC)?" queried a friend who had come round to pick him up. "Well, there might be something on in a moment..." he said. Or was that the anteater? #anteater
Wow....this has been lodged in my mind for so many years...the punk band where the girl says "I dont know" was my memory. Now I have finally found it, and I am wrong! Great video.
I had a rather large number of beers with Martin back in 2016. They always say you should never meet your music (or other artistic) idols because you're setting yourself up for disappointment. In Martin's case, that could not have been further from the truth. It was one of the finest times I ever had making a new friend and meeting someone whose writing and playing I've enjoyed so long :)
WOW. I was born on 19th January 1978, at about 10.40pm at night or something, in Kingston hospital, and was obviously lured out of the multiple delights and easy living of the womb by the sound of these rotters
I met them after their gig at Barbarella's in Birmingham around 1977. I was on stage at the end singing into the mic (lots of us were). The mic came off the lead and I put it in my pocket. I gave it back to the roadie after 15 minutes though. I was completely pissed. I asked for their "scrawl" (autograph) when they were having a drink afterwards. They were very kind. I deservered a punch in the face. Happy days. Or not.
Saw them on the Hunter/Ronson tour in 76(?) Great band, Martin wrote some classy stuff and Andy was mountaineering as usual. Got the SWINGING LOVERS album and the RUSSIANS WRECK RABBIT singles and hitch-hiked from Gateshead to Huddersfield Uni to see them. Got stuck and walked 12 miles in rain to Leeds Central to wait for morning train. And I'd do it again for another chance to see them. Great band great days. Have a look at CLUSTER BOMBS IN CANNING TOWN. Might be Andy's best.
I’ve only just discovered after all these years on Wikipedia that Andy was the singer for Radio Stars as well as Johns Children. Always loved “Nervous Wreck”. Just read that it was 1975 they toured with Hunter-Ronson. I saw Ronson’s first solo concert at the Rainbow theatre, London in 1974. Wish I’d known about the 1975 tour at the time.
Saw them at Birmingham Town Hall in 1978 as well. Supporting Eddie and the Hot Rods. They were fun. "Elvis is dead boring". Elvis had just died obviously.
@GravityBoy72 Well done! You were certainly setting a precedent by returning mikes which been nicked, I can tell you this much... Slap on the back rather than punch in the face, old boy.
Actually no, you were not the only person in Gillingham in 1978 to buy this single. Perhaps you also bought Dirty Pictures and the Stop EP too in 1977 also in Gillingham, Plus the LPs and other singles. I hope you also wept when the 2017 reboot didnt happen! Oh well.... !
Not sure if this is very pedantic but the year was 1978 not 1977 and this is one of the TOTP episodes that the Beeb is not showing now because of... well you know the reason why! Good tune though and when I saw them at the Metro, London a few years ago for their 35th anniversary gig it still sounded good then. Martin Gordon is still an ace tunesmith and Andy Ellison is still a hero to me as I got to co-sing "No Russians In Russia" with him at a 1993 RS Marquee gig! And I stayed in tune.
@ John Ashdown You might be right, on reflection. But you should have joined the Singing Policemen at the Metro, you know. Will there be another chance? Not looking very likely at present...
Nah! It was 1978! I became Jilted John to a girl who wouldn't leave her boyfriend for me at exactly that month and date, January '78 and Nervous Wreck was a deffo backdrop to that sorry episode of unrequited love in Gillingham, Kent. In tune back then, yes but I wasn't brave enough to go on stage and sing at the Metro gig when policemen were needed on stage for BVs. The shame! Can't believe I missed the 100 Club gig when's the next London one?
@ John Ashdown I thought being pedantic was illegal? But I know what you mean. However, I'm pretty sure that it was 1977... Staying in tune is always a good idea, well done!
Pub rock band shamelessly jumping on the punk bandwagon but a good song all the same! I remember seeing them in Cambridge Lady Mitchell Hall 1978 I think - I was very young at the time!
@ sequentialable12: I'm sorry, what is 'buy'? I am not aware of this activity in connection to music. Perhaps it is a new trend sparked off by mumbling teenagers with low-hanging jeans and large shoes?
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A brilliant live bans and such great songs. Martin Gordon was a genius, nobody else could put 'electro encephalograph' into a song, not even Frank Zappa!!
You are too kind. He is still grimly hanging on to life at martingordon.de, before embarking on the long, slow walk back to the pavilion.
First gig I ever attended - Radio Stars at Nashville Rooms, North End Road.
We almost lived there, during 1977.
25 yrs later, my brother and I still agree that the best gig (and he became stage manager at SECC in Glasgow) we ever went to was Squeeze, Radio Stars, and Eddie and the Hot Rods in Cardiff Top rank, 1978.By far the best band on the bill were Radio Stars! They were so unbelievibley entertainingly brilliant. Gods bless 'em. The best of Rock and Roll.
I was at that gig as well.
So I'm fifty, coked-up and bored off my fucking mind in some pub and this comes on last night; if I heard it in the seventies it's slipped my mind, but I suddenly woke up and thought; I'll have a bit of this. Quality!.
We would have a bit of what you're having. Quantity!
Too much Coca Cola is bad for you.
Strange to think that ten years previously, lead singer Andy Ellison was in a cult 60s psychedelic band called John's Children...with a certain Marc Bolan on guitar no less!!!
Met and saw Andy quite a few times at various Marc Bolan conventions and he was still acting the total nutter on stage even then.
He used to watch the test card on the BBC. "What on earth are you doing watching the test card (on the BBC)?" queried a friend who had come round to pick him up. "Well, there might be something on in a moment..." he said. Or was that the anteater? #anteater
Beep beep! Such a clever song. Always make me smile. Thanks! :)
Wow....this has been lodged in my mind for so many years...the punk band where the girl says "I dont know" was my memory. Now I have finally found it, and I am wrong! Great video.
Hmm, I don't know.
Loved this song then and still love it now
You are too kind. Here's the backstory: martingordon.de/radio-stars.
I had a rather large number of beers with Martin back in 2016. They always say you should never meet your music (or other artistic) idols because you're setting yourself up for disappointment. In Martin's case, that could not have been further from the truth. It was one of the finest times I ever had making a new friend and meeting someone whose writing and playing I've enjoyed so long :)
It was a good evening - reciprocated!
WOW. I was born on 19th January 1978, at about 10.40pm at night or something, in Kingston hospital, and was obviously lured out of the multiple delights and easy living of the womb by the sound of these rotters
There will always be rotters. Life was so much easier on January 19th 1978 at 10.35pm, I bet.
top song , remember Stuart Henry playing it on radio luxembourg .
I met them after their gig at Barbarella's in Birmingham around 1977.
I was on stage at the end singing into the mic (lots of us were). The mic came off the lead and I put it in my pocket. I gave it back to the roadie after 15 minutes though.
I was completely pissed. I asked for their "scrawl" (autograph) when they were having a drink afterwards.
They were very kind.
I deservered a punch in the face.
Happy days.
Or not.
Superb song.
Saw them on the Hunter/Ronson tour in 76(?) Great band, Martin wrote some classy stuff and Andy was mountaineering as usual. Got the SWINGING LOVERS album and the RUSSIANS WRECK RABBIT singles and hitch-hiked from Gateshead to Huddersfield Uni to see them. Got stuck and walked 12 miles in rain to Leeds Central to wait for morning train. And I'd do it again for another chance to see them. Great band great days. Have a look at CLUSTER BOMBS IN CANNING TOWN. Might be Andy's best.
A true fan, cheers!
I’ve only just discovered after all these years on Wikipedia that Andy was the singer for Radio Stars as well as Johns Children. Always loved “Nervous Wreck”. Just read that it was 1975 they toured with Hunter-Ronson. I saw Ronson’s first solo concert at the Rainbow theatre, London in 1974. Wish I’d known about the 1975 tour at the time.
Saw them at Birmingham Town Hall in 1978 as well. Supporting Eddie and the Hot Rods. They were fun.
"Elvis is dead boring".
Elvis had just died obviously.
" Electroencephalograph " a much underused word in song lyrics........
Extremely underused, if you ask me. How much more underused could it be, in fact? Not any more.
You're doing a grand job, Mr. Portion. Keep the flag flying!
Fucking brilliant what a legend. Thanks for uploading this
@James McQuarrie - Thank you, you are clearly a discerning sort! We did our best. Actually I remember that gig as being particularly good.
Brilliant!
Brilliant x x
Well done, Mr Banana, for coming down on the side of common sense and rectitude. Your action is a tribute to your species.
@GravityBoy72
Well done! You were certainly setting a precedent by returning mikes which been nicked, I can tell you this much... Slap on the back rather than punch in the face, old boy.
It's a lonely life for the custodians of good taste and discernment, and I speak as one of their number.
I must have been the only other person to buy this in Gillingham in 1978. Although my jilt experience came a couple of years later. Happy days.
Oh, dear. You fell over?
I did. I fell over the 80's and never recovered until now. And it seems little has changed musically. Pap asunder.
I know. It was hardly worth getting up, really.
Actually no, you were not the only person in Gillingham in 1978 to buy this single. Perhaps you also bought Dirty Pictures and the Stop EP too in 1977 also in Gillingham, Plus the LPs and other singles. I hope you also wept when the 2017 reboot didnt happen! Oh well....
!
Not sure if this is very pedantic but the year was 1978 not 1977 and this is one of the TOTP episodes that the Beeb is not showing now because of... well you know the reason why! Good tune though and when I saw them at the Metro, London a few years ago for their 35th anniversary gig it still sounded good then. Martin Gordon is still an ace tunesmith and Andy Ellison is still a hero to me as I got to co-sing "No Russians In Russia" with him at a 1993 RS Marquee gig! And I stayed in tune.
@Glassbanana
Yes, it's neck and neck; the nation holds it's breath.
@ John Ashdown
You might be right, on reflection. But you should have joined the Singing Policemen at the Metro, you know. Will there be another chance? Not looking very likely at present...
Nah! It was 1978! I became Jilted John to a girl who wouldn't leave her boyfriend for me at exactly that month and date, January '78 and Nervous Wreck was a deffo backdrop to that sorry episode of unrequited love in Gillingham, Kent. In tune back then, yes but I wasn't brave enough to go on stage and sing at the Metro gig when policemen were needed on stage for BVs. The shame! Can't believe I missed the 100 Club gig when's the next London one?
Better than excellent😂😀🍺🇬🇧
We live in superlative times, of course.
@Glassbanana
As you note, Mr Banana, we are both doing our best, in our small way...
@ John Ashdown
I thought being pedantic was illegal? But I know what you mean. However, I'm pretty sure that it was 1977... Staying in tune is always a good idea, well done!
i got a baillift notification for a previous tenant and thats how i ended up here, inwas a nervous wreck lol
So it wasn't love then...
@@RadiantFutureRecords nope lol
@ andy301261:
No worries! There's also a new Radio Stars FB page, innit... search for Radio Stars.
Dare I upset this delicate balance? Oh, what the hell.
@GravityBoy72
Ah, you spotted that.
Had to buy the single and its much clearer than this TH-cam offering
Pub rock band shamelessly jumping on the punk bandwagon but a good song all the same! I remember seeing them in Cambridge Lady Mitchell Hall 1978 I think - I was very young at the time!
No.
@@RadiantFutureRecords What was the name of the model in this performance?
@@VincentRE79 That was the enigmatic Kelly St. John.
@@RadiantFutureRecords Obviously chosen at the time for her musical ability?
@@VincentRE79 You noticed that, did you? Well spotted.
@ sequentialable12: I'm sorry, what is 'buy'? I am not aware of this activity in connection to music. Perhaps it is a new trend sparked off by mumbling teenagers with low-hanging jeans and large shoes?
Well... when I say just died... there's a man who works at our chip shop..
Not unlike life itself, in many respects.
Albert come here quick
Is that a ferret down your trousers or are you just pleased to see us?
lots of fathers kicked the TV this night,must we fling this filth at our children.
Naughty peeble who needle peeble.
Haha the drummer is my uncle
Hahaha i once met a man on a bus who was the drummers uncles dentist hahaha well thats what he said
My Mother's second cousin lives next-door-but-one.... to the lead guitarist's ex wife!
Do you really expect me to believe that?
Radiant Future Records
ooops! I meant the bass guitarist.
Ah, in that case you'd better keep yer eyes open...
@luigi7630
Just don't make me an offer I can't refuse.
Steve Parry here?
Steve Parry there.
@@RadiantFutureRecords Steve Parry every bloody where 😂😂😂
@@TheDriller-Killer There is no escaping Stan Parrot.
I try. God knows I try.
these are the ones who were killed by the video?
Stone dead, matey.
@ electricrussell
I agree! Bastards! And who cares about being relevant, that's what i want to know!
They just look like a glam band who adopted a punk/new wave look to stay relevant.
Exactly. There's nothing worse than being relevant, in my book.
@@RadiantFutureRecords Mate, you answered an 8 year old comment! I'm still alive in case you were wondering.
Sorry mother, I've been rather busy for the last eight years.