Steve Gilpin was a very good friend of mine. We hung out in the same muso nightclub (the Manzil Room), he'd always give me a lift home as the sun was coming up (going out of his way). I took a contract job in West Australia and when I returned he'd had that awful accident and died. I was devastated. He was a lovely man.
Hi. I know a workmate whose wife's sister was married to a member of the band, this was back in 1978, her surame was Mortal. Steve had an amazing voice, musical talent, looks and stage presence, so sad what happened. We saw the the band recently and there was one member of the original lineup.
I had the pleasure of meeting Steve at the 89 Broadford motor cycle festival and we became good friends for the following years. That man could party and party hard, he was and still is the best Kiwi i ever knew. I didn't hear of his passing until after the fact, and was even more saddened that he passed on my birthday 6 Jan.. A friend knew a nurse at Southport hospital where Steve was cared for, and she had a tale to tell about his coma. Every Friday afternoon around 4pm Steve's heartbeat would rise around 10 BPM higher and stay that way until the early hours of Monday morning. Even in a coma his body knew it was the weekend and time to party.. RIP Bro.
@@robertmilo5203 1983 was pretty good. "She Blinded Me With Science", "Our House", "I Ran (So Far Away)", "Space Age Love Song", "Wishing (I Had a Photograph of You)", "Lies" (Thompson Twins), "Promises, Promises" and "Always Something There to Remind Me" by Naked Eyes, "(Keep Feeling) Fascination", and many others. 🎵 🙂
I'm now 80 and that song and that band bought me so much joy in my younger days.....I came to know the boys in the band and they were just so much fun and had wonderful senses of humour....then we come to their music unbelievable talent in spades!!!!...steve gilpin was such a nice fellow, I think about him often
As a ten year old I desperately wanted this song to hit number 1 in the charts but it just couldn't move video killed the radio star. I will always carry this emotional scar!
After years of disco what a life saver new wave bands like Mi Sex were. I always thought this song should have been number one all over the world, I feel your pain.
Rob Muldoon regarded these guys as cultural as On The Mat, back in the day, saying no to the removal of sales tax from local act. This inspired The Knobz "Don't Give me Culture" A great decade to be a teenager.
Nobody gives Murray Burns the credit he deserves for this track. The keys were absolutely revolutionary for the time. MURRAY BURNS!!! MURRAY FREAKIN' BURNS!!!!!
I was recently diagnosed with cancer and I listen to this song at the gym on the treadmill to keep step. I love the strong bassline. Hopefully I'll be back at the gym after surgery and I can start listening to this again.
@@richardwitherow5289 thankyou, I just had my last chemo treatment a few days ago and will finish radiotherapy in a week. Fingers crossed that I'm cured.
Hi guys I just wanted to let you know that I finished up cancer treatment in late march, waited 3 months for the results and they've all come back - the cancer is gone! Im back in the gym on the treadmill and listening to computer games again :) I hope 2021 is a great year for everyone else too!
I was DJ-ing in Crystal River Flori-DUH in '79 and had just gotten the 12" for this song. The dance floor was packed when I slapped it on the table and let loose. It was like seeing deer in your headlights. So I hit 'em with "Girl You Want" as a follow-up. :D They bled from their ears and screamed for more "Upside Down." I gave them Split-Enz, instead. There is no god.
@@robertmcmanus9185 No era tan difícil, yo escuchaba esta canción en el 79 en un programa de tv llamado "midnight special" que hacía armando plata camacho.
One of my absolute all time favourite songs, so catchy, so weird at the same time. The band that took their name from an "Ultravox!" song. Will always remember Steve Gilpin's voice, Don Martin's bass moves, Kevin Stanton's guitar, R.I.P. all of you...👽
Newcastle NSW Australia . ..those pinball parlours in 80s..just fkn sik..an this music playing all the time. Call me old but fk it was mad back then..cheers
Same here Ray , Id say coast to coast... For me, from the Pinball Shack in George st opposite the cinemas, or westworld Arcade next door, to the Milk bar and the Laundromat in Riverwood.......A bike ride from Lugarno. ;)
I also knew Steve Gilpin. A living legend. Playing gigs right up to the night he was mortally wounded. We lost a bright shining star in Steve. Not just an awesome talent and entertainer but a stellar human being and friend to all who knew him. Fond memories of singing on stage with him at Mullum footy club and parties in the hills.
I remember well the talent of Steve and his latter groups such as Under rapz and rapid fire. Playing all up and down the coast. But when they did their local sets he would point his mic. at you in the crowd and you would be obliged to jump up on stage and sing with him. Even if your voice was not great or you messed up the lyrics! That was the kind of generous fun spirit Steve possessed. I know you are up there singing with the angels Steve. Rock on Bro.
I was lucky to see this band live in Tasmania of all places, really awesome, and as you can see by this song, ahead of their time as far as technology.
On 25 November 1991, while driving home from an Under Rapz gig at nearby Byron Bay, Gilpin was involved in a car accident. He sustained serious head injuries that left him in a coma. He never recovered consciousness and died in Southport Hospital on 6 January 1992, aged 42. He was buried on his property. Two benefit concerts were held in February for his wife Maggie, and their two children.
Thank you for the info. Such a shame. I hear this song and I’m back to the late 70s in southern Sydney pubs, bopping around like an idiot in my Dunlop Volleys.
Simon, you not wrong though I saw them only once at the Ambassador nightclub in Newcastle. There were a lot of good bands played there up close and personal.
The first time I ever got to buy my own records at 12 years old, I bought 2 singles, this and I Got You by Split Enz. Still got them both and I will never get sick of listening to this. At the time, I was getting into arcade games and Star Fire was one of my favourites so seeing it as the background to this clip was a thrill!
One of my very first music purchases on a single lp as a pre-teen, great memories, and for all those who bag it, remember your music evolved from those previous, enjoy !
I was 16 yrs old and at the Sydney Opera House for an open air concert with many acts put on by 2SM. 1981 I think. It was my first live music experience and Mi-Sex opened the show with this song. It was so awesome to hear music so loud with so many cheering people. To this day when I hear this song I am back at the Opera House forecourt in my denim jacket and jeans, lots of surfie hair and drinking my first full long-neck. Shhhh, don't tell Mum. It was the start of an awesome decade of pub auditoriums, stadiums and the best music Australia ever produced.
Although they seem to have been launched to world success from Australia, and the video was filmed in Sidney, they were from New Zealand, ¿Weren't they?
Luke, MATE I got to agree Australian (*and New Zealand) music of the 80s is just so great. And this 40 + years later still sounds as fresh as then. And that riff....🤘
A great song from a talented new Zealand band..its sad that Steve gilpin was killed in a freak road accident shortly after this song was released..all future shattered forever ..So tragic . wherever you are in the afterlife Steve gilpin..I hope you went to heaven? ♥️ Xxxxooo
Bro I've been trying to search this song for so many years I tell ya man it's been like 5 years I've been trying to find this absolutely amazing song and I've finally found it, my life is so much better now
takes me back to video arcades of the early eighties and getting zonked and spending hours in a trance playing space invaders and galaxian. Used to work up a real sweat trying to set a high score but neve quite making it. Great memories tho and this song takes me back there. R.I.P Steve Gilpin
Fun days. I loved this song ever since I heard it regularly on Tom Leykis’s late night talk and comedy show on WBAI. He’d throw in a fair bit of new wave that you wouldn’t hear anywhere else. I was never a big arcade player, but was hooked on computer dungeon games and still play them to this day.
This was released around the same time Space Invaders uprights & tabletops hit Australia. I remember it banging out the speakers while playing pinnies at Flashback (long defunct pinnie parlour in Bourke Street, Melbourne). The perfect soundtrack for a joystick junky.
The video displays 'Control Data Corporation'. If I'm right that's the old data centre and educational facility in North Sydney where I trained in computer programming. Have often wondered where that was filmed. At that time magnetic tapes were state of the art and those hard disc drives were the next big thing - until they had what they called a head crash!
Certainly a contrast to Steve Gilpin’s mid-70s solo work and appearance - NZ on screen has 1974 footage of Steve singing ‘I’m a train’ alongside Rob Guest and Hayden Wood - long hair, moustache, purple suit with flares and platform shoes.
Jammed this song hard at parties when we first heard it way back. Had this punk rock beat and swag about. Saw them play at Mainstreet, Upper Queen Street, Auckland as well..
i remember singing this for year 6 choir and revisiting it now, like 7 years later, and although we sang a a slightly altered version i can see why i liked this song so much lol
Wonderful, completely unique. Always wanted to know: is it 12 or 13 times that the "pu" from computer is repeated (with some that are hiccups-like) ??!! New Wave Masterpiece.
This is 80's cheese video at its best. Great song though. Loved these guys. By the way guys, don't touch those computers. Your album won't make enough to cover any damages. :)
This song has real power and beat to it and this is really cool music and of course really good music and it’s purpose to the song and the people who are involved singing in it, as well so it’s very good to listen too,.
wow i remember laying on the floor at my football coaches house with headphones on listening to this song over and over again like all day for how long lol still love it that was 1979 wow i am old now was on a vinyl single so kool.
Lotta memories of the old WPIX 101.9 in New York City during their way too short New Wave Format, this got a lot of airplay there. Anyone remember the Simone Phone?
I was just a new teen listening to this on the Bus driving through Wellington, Aotearoa, New Zealand Zealand. Mi Sex started me on my Punk Rock era, with the Sex Pistols, Crass, The Clash and so many UK 🇬🇧 Bands. I loved being a Punk Rocker and my Parents just laughed, and encouraged my behavior.
Steve Gilpin was a very good friend of mine. We hung out in the same muso nightclub (the Manzil Room), he'd always give me a lift home as the sun was coming up (going out of his way). I took a contract job in West Australia and when I returned he'd had that awful accident and died. I was devastated. He was a lovely man.
Hi. I know a workmate whose wife's sister was married to a member of the band, this was back in 1978, her surame was Mortal. Steve had an amazing voice, musical talent, looks and stage presence, so sad what happened.
We saw the the band recently and there was one member of the original lineup.
I'd met Steve and Maggie too about a year or 2 before the accident, wonderful people and such a sad loss :(
Crap ! I had no idea :(
I hung at thhe Manzil also and knew him well...loved him
I had the pleasure of meeting Steve at the 89 Broadford motor cycle festival and we became good friends for the following years. That man could party and party hard, he was and still is the best Kiwi i ever knew. I didn't hear of his passing until after the fact, and was even more saddened that he passed on my birthday 6 Jan.. A friend knew a nurse at Southport hospital where Steve was cared for, and she had a tale to tell about his coma. Every Friday afternoon around 4pm Steve's heartbeat would rise around 10 BPM higher and stay that way until the early hours of Monday morning. Even in a coma his body knew it was the weekend and time to party.. RIP Bro.
1979 was the best year of the 80's
And 89 the nineties!
Was there a better year for music?
@@robertmilo5203 1983 was pretty good. "She Blinded Me With Science", "Our House", "I Ran (So Far Away)", "Space Age Love Song", "Wishing (I Had a Photograph of You)", "Lies" (Thompson Twins), "Promises, Promises" and "Always Something There to Remind Me" by Naked Eyes, "(Keep Feeling) Fascination", and many others. 🎵 🙂
@@Milesco and '84 had CLauper, Nena, Madonna, and Thompson Twins' Doctor Doctor...
If you liked this song… as I did … did you also like Kraftwerk and Devo?
Genuine appreciation for all the Aussie and Kiwi Bands out there. Your music rocks. Hi5 from Goa, India
Goa, mate is my favorite place I would love to visit in India . And it was a small world for the doctor who removed my tonsils family from Goa.
I'm now 80 and that song and that band bought me so much joy in my younger days.....I came to know the boys in the band and they were just so much fun and had wonderful senses of humour....then we come to their music unbelievable talent in spades!!!!...steve gilpin was such a nice fellow, I think about him often
As a ten year old I desperately wanted this song to hit number 1 in the charts but it just couldn't move video killed the radio star. I will always carry this emotional scar!
Hahaha I was also 10 when this came out. I remember thinking how high tech & modern it was. Such good memories...
After years of disco what a life saver new wave bands like Mi Sex were. I always thought this song should have been number one all over the world, I feel your pain.
its way better then video killed the radio star
I feel your pain 🥲
Rob Muldoon regarded these guys as cultural as On The Mat, back in the day, saying no to the removal of sales tax from local act. This inspired The Knobz "Don't Give me Culture" A great decade to be a teenager.
Nobody gives Murray Burns the credit he deserves for this track. The keys were absolutely revolutionary for the time. MURRAY BURNS!!! MURRAY FREAKIN' BURNS!!!!!
Just wondering what you meant by the keys being revolutionary?
Got it.👍😂
he was given credit tonight at the croxton!
Murray Fkn BURNS!
A great band saw them in Aug/Sep 1979 at the House on the Hill in Cairns.
Love from England 🏴 ❤
I was recently diagnosed with cancer and I listen to this song at the gym on the treadmill to keep step. I love the strong bassline. Hopefully I'll be back at the gym after surgery and I can start listening to this again.
I hope you're doing ok Andrew.
@@richardwitherow5289 thankyou, I just had my last chemo treatment a few days ago and will finish radiotherapy in a week. Fingers crossed that I'm cured.
@@Kingslayer_au Good one mate!
I know somewhere you can find your own personal Jesus....reach out and and touch faith. Hope you’re well mate. 👊🏼
Hi guys I just wanted to let you know that I finished up cancer treatment in late march, waited 3 months for the results and they've all come back - the cancer is gone! Im back in the gym on the treadmill and listening to computer games again :) I hope 2021 is a great year for everyone else too!
Being a young adolescent in the 80's with a commodore 64, and this song coming out perfectly encapsulates the time. Wish I could go back!
Good times ..but can never go back .
Brilliant journey , push on .
Was the C64 a British System? I have a limited knowledge of "retro gaming" mostly from listening to Chiptunes.
@@WocklessGamingforAnimeMoms yes tape dreive and 1 kilo byte memory
The C64 is still the sh@t....Happy times
Commodore was a US company but the C64 was hugely popular in the UK and Europe and Australia
I was DJ-ing in Crystal River Flori-DUH in '79 and had just gotten the 12" for this song. The dance floor was packed when I slapped it on the table and let loose.
It was like seeing deer in your headlights.
So I hit 'em with "Girl You Want" as a follow-up. :D They bled from their ears and screamed for more "Upside Down."
I gave them Split-Enz, instead.
There is no god.
Everything about this song just works. Synth is great, guitar lead, ripping chords used sparingly, bass line, lyrics and voice... visionary.
It’s a very underrated song that’s for sure.
The NRG & Synthpop Sound of Giorgio⚡Moroder, father and pionner of EDM since 1977.
I was a child
That riff is epic.
It kind of has a 1960s spy film vibe to it.
Man this has to be one of the greatest songs evet made
Every time this song is playing it makes me feel like I’m in a computer game world
At least one of the most underrated and cool tunes outta outback OZ.
Should play it in new Matrix movie.
You are getting a little excited
Yep, Jonah Lewis brought me here..
These guys were ‘80s before the ‘80s were invented.
This was before DOS was released lol
@@lookingglassapartments8851 Dos, no Dos. The matrix grid don't care.
Escucha Our Love (D. Summer) 79 o el sonido del grupo Sparks 79 de Giorgio⚡Moroder y la electro NRG & Synthpop de la EDM que inicio Moroder desde 1977
Yeah
Our introduction to the 80's.
Still sounds very fresh and futuristic today
Agreed streets ahead!
Way way way ahead of time
Mason from Mr Sunday Movies sent me.
Same! Isnt this cyborgs theme?
@@kenmccarthy9838 And the Flash's.
the best part is that this was uploaded after their video lmao
Same ngl. Haven't been bit by an 80's earworm this bad since RedScotGaming's use of "House of Fun".
I will never get tired of this classic hit
I am from Colombia and I listened that song in my country, suddenly I was surprised. What a song?. Its a jewel. Thanks!
Cada tema musical hecho en los 70 y 80 te va sorprender / increíble este tema musical
Que bueno.... vivi en Colombia y yo se que fue dificil para escuchar musica de este estilo alla. Escucha todo el LP.... es excelente.
@@robertmcmanus9185 No era tan difícil, yo escuchaba esta canción en el 79 en un programa de tv llamado "midnight special" que hacía armando plata camacho.
@@willcastano3529 Si, conozco Midnight Special. Buena programa! Que bueno todo la musica que tenemos la oportunidad para escuchar. Suerte!
One of my absolute all time favourite songs, so catchy, so weird at the same time. The band that took their name from an "Ultravox!" song. Will always remember Steve Gilpin's voice, Don Martin's bass moves, Kevin Stanton's guitar, R.I.P. all of you...👽
45 years later and MI-Sex still sounds more futuristic than anything coming out of the radio today.
We heard the future of music during the Fall of 1979 with ‘Computer Games’ and ‘Cars’…)
Newcastle NSW Australia . ..those pinball parlours in 80s..just fkn sik..an this music playing all the time. Call me old but fk it was mad back then..cheers
yep
As a kid going to see movies at the tower cinemas would include going to the arcade on King st.
Same here Ray , Id say coast to coast...
For me, from the Pinball Shack in George st opposite the cinemas, or westworld Arcade next door, to the Milk bar and the Laundromat in Riverwood.......A bike ride from Lugarno. ;)
You all became boring conformist conservative normies, there is still good music you just have to know where to find it.
Mate your words just took me back in time! Loved those old school pinball parlours.
I was 12 when this song / video was featured on "Video West " in San Francisco bay area.One of my favorites! Greetings from California ❤
And love from Australia . Great band
I also knew Steve Gilpin. A living legend. Playing gigs right up to the night he was mortally wounded. We lost a bright shining star in Steve. Not just an awesome talent and entertainer but a stellar human being and friend to all who knew him. Fond memories of singing on stage with him at Mullum footy club and parties in the hills.
I remember well the talent of Steve and his latter groups such as Under rapz and rapid fire. Playing all up and down the coast. But when they did their local sets he would point his mic. at you in the crowd and you would be obliged to jump up on stage and sing with him. Even if your voice was not great or you messed up the lyrics! That was the kind of generous fun spirit Steve possessed. I know you are up there singing with the angels Steve. Rock on Bro.
Such an iconic riff.
I was lucky to see this band live in Tasmania of all places, really awesome, and as you can see by this song, ahead of their time as far as technology.
For ~1979 this is quite an epic video for it's time.
Love how they got everything synched up so well. Including the beep beep.
Just awesome New Zealand 🇳🇿 & Australian 🇦🇺 music 🎶 🎵 🎼 🎸 🎹 🎤 ❤️ 👌 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 R I P Don 😢
NZ.
This was New Wave in the states. I loved it. Fun, it helped launched MTV.
On 25 November 1991, while driving home from an Under Rapz gig at nearby Byron Bay, Gilpin was involved in a car accident.
He sustained serious head injuries that left him in a coma. He never recovered consciousness and died in Southport Hospital on 6 January 1992, aged 42.
He was buried on his property. Two benefit concerts were held in February for his wife Maggie, and their two children.
Thank you for the info. Such a shame. I hear this song and I’m back to the late 70s in southern Sydney pubs, bopping around like an idiot in my Dunlop Volleys.
Underrated...massively underrated. Having seen them live several times...I know.
Simon, you not wrong though I saw them only once at the Ambassador nightclub in Newcastle. There were a lot of good bands played there up close and personal.
The first time I ever got to buy my own records at 12 years old, I bought 2 singles, this and I Got You by Split Enz. Still got them both and I will never get sick of listening to this. At the time, I was getting into arcade games and Star Fire was one of my favourites so seeing it as the background to this clip was a thrill!
Hoy 2023 Sonando aún este maravilloso tema musical fuera de tiempo
Love this band when I was 13yrs and still iconic at 58yrs!! July 2022
As an 18 year old myself, I remember my brother showing it to me when I was like 7 and damn.
One of my very first music purchases on a single lp as a pre-teen, great memories, and for all those who bag it, remember your music evolved from those previous, enjoy !
Cyborgs theme
- Mason, Mr sunday movies
And the flash
Interesting... 🤔
@@adamcomma he watches rick and morty!!!
Still poppin off in '24 lesgooo
...greatest riff ever to come out of New Zealand ! :)
I was 16 yrs old and at the Sydney Opera House for an open air concert with many acts put on by 2SM. 1981 I think. It was my first live music experience and Mi-Sex opened the show with this song. It was so awesome to hear music so loud with so many cheering people. To this day when I hear this song I am back at the Opera House forecourt in my denim jacket and jeans, lots of surfie hair and drinking my first full long-neck. Shhhh, don't tell Mum. It was the start of an awesome decade of pub auditoriums, stadiums and the best music Australia ever produced.
Although they seem to have been launched to world success from Australia, and the video was filmed in Sidney, they were from New Zealand, ¿Weren't they?
Luke, MATE I got to agree Australian (*and New Zealand) music of the 80s is just so great. And this 40 + years later still sounds as fresh as then. And that riff....🤘
@@Castilla-Madrid Yes they are band that originated from New Zealand :)
Back then the best was this song playing on the speakers in an arcade playing the game featured in the video. Life was good.
A great song from a talented new Zealand band..its sad that Steve gilpin was killed in a freak road accident shortly after this song was released..all future shattered forever ..So tragic . wherever you are in the afterlife Steve gilpin..I hope you went to heaven? ♥️ Xxxxooo
The late lamented Steve Gilpin - a man not afraid to make silly noises for the sake of his art. Love this
I saw this song live at the Sydney Opera House steps in the mid 80s sounded awesome live too :).
Another Kiwi band us Aussies adopted as our very own, classic early 80s Countdown staple.
been on board since South Florida, circa '82.
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Shazamed this song from Coles background music
An actual mainframe computer at Control Data.
Just WOW!
Sports is another Aussie band that deserved international recognition.
Thank you for the memories.
Winter Garden Tavern, Queen street mall Friday and Saturday Nights, Steve and the lads were Awesome!
RIP Steve.
Bro I've been trying to search this song for so many years I tell ya man it's been like 5 years I've been trying to find this absolutely amazing song and I've finally found it, my life is so much better now
Saw them live in Parnell Auckland in a pub bloody Awesome
The Windsor Castle sadly gone now.
@@robwilliamsfn9425bugger best live music pub in the 70s,street talk a blues band was one off my favourites
Some of my best Childhood Memories bring it back :)
Nicely edited video.
Especially since it was all done on tape or film.
This popped into my head today. Why? I have no idea. But I’m glad it did!
I'm glad this happens to me all the time
What a band,and what a song 👍👏❤️
Simply brilliant I love this band forever
Recently saw Mi Sex at The Big Red Bash concert with Steve Balby on vocals. They were amazing.
My Rock Band still plays MS Tunes to this day - great Band well ahead of there time - Cheers
takes me back to video arcades of the early eighties and getting zonked and spending hours in a trance playing space invaders and galaxian. Used to work up a real sweat trying to set a high score but neve quite making it. Great memories tho and this song takes me back there. R.I.P Steve Gilpin
There was always the option of unplugging the game to reset the high scores to something easier to beat. Uh... a friend used to do that, not me. 😁
... and there was Defender. Yep, a great song
Computer Games, Cars and Another Brick in the Wall pt2 while playing Space Invaders in an arcade, just awesome :)
Fun days. I loved this song ever since I heard it regularly on Tom Leykis’s late night talk and comedy show on WBAI. He’d throw in a fair bit of new wave that you wouldn’t hear anywhere else. I was never a big arcade player, but was hooked on computer dungeon games and still play them to this day.
This was released around the same time Space Invaders uprights & tabletops hit Australia. I remember it banging out the speakers while playing pinnies at Flashback (long defunct pinnie parlour in Bourke Street, Melbourne). The perfect soundtrack for a joystick junky.
I saw these talented gents at the Ambassador Club Maitland in 1980.
As I am a programmer... this one of my favorites
The video displays 'Control Data Corporation'. If I'm right that's the old data centre and educational facility in North Sydney where I trained in computer programming. Have often wondered where that was filmed. At that time magnetic tapes were state of the art and those hard disc drives were the next big thing - until they had what they called a head crash!
Genuinely one of the coolest songs and videos ever
great band, great classic song... sadly most of the band are now passed
I have no idea what the lyrics are about and I'm a computer programmer.
The computers have improved over time, but I'm not sure if the music has...
Hopefully the computers will make our music in the future, the humans seemed to have ran out of steam there.
for me this never ever gets old 💔🖥🖤🎮
Certainly a contrast to Steve Gilpin’s mid-70s solo work and appearance - NZ on screen has 1974 footage of Steve singing ‘I’m a train’ alongside Rob Guest and Hayden Wood - long hair, moustache, purple suit with flares and platform shoes.
Still love this song
Jammed this song hard at parties when we first heard it way back. Had this punk rock beat and swag about. Saw them play at Mainstreet, Upper Queen Street, Auckland as well..
A deadset 80s classic!
Mr. Sunday Movies brought me here and so glad they did... such a great song!
One of the very best !
Great to see you guys still charging!
They still play it on radio out here at western nsw Australia 🇦🇺
wow 1979 kiwi music - originally a wellington band
Back in the 80's bring back a lot memories 😀😂
I think it's from 79!
i remember singing this for year 6 choir and revisiting it now, like 7 years later, and although we sang a a slightly altered version i can see why i liked this song so much lol
This a catchy one
Love this song. ❤ coming of age music. New Wave
"Jammed up tight by a red traffic light, 🚦 advance 1 level on green!" Love that line, sort of an arcade take on gridlock!
"The matrix grid" -- seems an early reference to a computer/ network as such.
This song blew my mind when i first heard it in 79, most certainly ahead of it's time
Saw them live mate and they where good value, I'm like Beatles' song.............64
Bring back the 80’s please.
Listen to Richard blade on 1st Wave on Serious Radio
Don't forget all the nuclear tension, mass shootings, wars, and all the other terrible things that came with it!
*1979
@@simbadooo9055 Any of that in Australia and NZ? Life in both countries was mostly carefree compared to the rest of the planet.
Great act coming out of New Zealand, If they only new about todays computer games.
I have seen them play this live, in 2019. It was the highlight of the concert.
This was my favourite song then, because i played arcade games at corner shop nd I'm still playing on xbox one 🎉😂 from Fremantle West Australia
Wonderful, completely unique. Always wanted to know: is it 12 or 13 times that the "pu" from computer is repeated (with some that are hiccups-like) ??!! New Wave Masterpiece.
Still a banger2022!????????
This is 80's cheese video at its best. Great song though. Loved these guys. By the way guys, don't touch those computers. Your album won't make enough to cover any damages. :)
Where was the Control Data Corporation building that they visited in the video?
North Sydney
This song has real power and beat to it and this is really cool music and of course really good music and it’s purpose to the song and the people who are involved singing in it, as well so it’s very good to listen too,.
Tremendous song. They are timeless.
God I just gotta listen to this song every now and then...... and remember. Thanks for sharing.
Love this song!!!! Wen I’m singing the song makes me feel like I’m in a video game world!!!
Skating to this at Canterbury ice rink 79, I was 12
What a riff
One of my favourite songs grownup
wow i remember laying on the floor at my football coaches house with headphones on listening to this song over and over again like all day for how long lol still love it that was 1979 wow i am old now was on a vinyl single so kool.
wow still sounds good
Lotta memories of the old WPIX 101.9 in New York City during their way too short New Wave Format, this got a lot of airplay there. Anyone remember the Simone Phone?
1979 ...
That riff. 😌🤤
I was just a new teen listening to this on the Bus driving through Wellington, Aotearoa, New Zealand Zealand. Mi Sex started me on my Punk Rock era, with the Sex Pistols, Crass, The Clash and so many UK 🇬🇧 Bands. I loved being a Punk Rocker and my Parents just laughed, and encouraged my behavior.
Best riff of 1979.