Sigue Sigue Sputnik - South of Watford on LWT on 14 February 1986
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- Опубликовано: 1 дек 2020
- South of Watford was a documentary series featuring entertainment, art and leisure around London. The presenter/narrator was Hugh Laurie. This edition tied in with the release of Love Missile F1-11 and was a phenomenal piece of promotion for a new band who were not yet well-known. It's got footage from the Abbey Road gig, Martin's stall at Kensington Market, Tony at EMI headquarters, Neal in the studio etc.
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Saw them 3 times in the 80's. Still have the set list from the Astoria gig in 1988. They blew my mind back then! Thanks for upload 👍
You're welcome! The audio of that Astoria gig is on this channel but it's incomplete. Perhaps you could check your set list and let us know what's missing? I was there too but my memory's not what it was...
@@robinebayI used to have a setlist from that as well- long gone now.
Remember watching this at the time...17 yrs old, first job, money, a Kensington Market goth, spending time in the basement playing aarcade games and pool and buying clothes from Pure Sex and Artificial Eye and buying records...Sigue Sigue were breath of fresh air in a stale music wasteland...
Yes Tony you were a one trick pony. A glorious one and for a few magical weeks it was epic. But you threw all your hand in one go. Brave move. Glad i lived through it.
Always loved SSS. Met Tony James at a Big Audio Dynamite concert in Brixton... good guy. Weirdly started using Tony James as a pseudonym after that.
Haven't watched this in years.great quality👍
So nice to have this all in one episode and better quality. Thanks for another great upload Robin 👍
This show was already on RUclips in poor quality. Much to my surprise, my old 1980s VHS copy had survived in pretty good condition and this copy is definitely an upgrade.
Wow cheers robin much better quality than the other versions on youtube would love to see full abbey rd gig
Thanks, good to see it as one full video and not in parts!
Thanks SO much for taking the time to post this. It's such a treat to see it and made my morning
Kind of funny that “BMX bikes” was one of the things.
Think he was trying to be "Down" with the [Single buying] Kids
Our biggest musical influence is SSS. The music and making fun of the music industry was so entertaining! No Serial Killer.
Thank you !! Didn't know this existed - it's like I've seen this chopped up , but didn't know it was from LWT !! Figures , just like the Pistols 10 years before !
Amazing that there was only 10 years between the two groups. And now it's 36 years later ...
SSS were the Inventors of Cyber Punk. So much potential.
A glorious one trick pony. Fantastic but not able to sustain long.
@@StrawPerson-xq9ko Is that the only thing you can come up with? Try harder
$$$ predicted to future!
S*S*S - The best thing since the big bang. 💥
This is very clear vid Robin👍! Moroder interview you can here some F1-11 in background with different effects from either 7 or 12" versions well cool!
Yeah i always wanted that version
That's the Actuality Sound Mix of F1-11
@@FilmsByColinBishop where do i find this version?
@@FilmsByColinBishop Do you know what “Actuality Sound” means? I always wondered.
Fantastic!!! N
I was SO DOWN with them then! What a BRILLIANT failure they proved to be!
21:43 twist and shout 😍
An attempt to recreate the hype and hysteria of Frankie Goes To Hollywood but the public didn't bite.
Think this was released as picture disc that appears on ebay now and again double sided plays the same interview on both sides
Not quite. The picture disc was titled "The Trial of Tony James" and was a recording of a press conference he gave in July 1986 ... and I forgot to upload it with the interviews! Some of this South of Watford show ended up in "From the Gutter to the Stars" which was on the bonus 12" that came with Flaunt It if you bought it from HMV when it was first released (it's also on the Flaunt It 4CD set).
How much was the deal ? Or was that just another fiction they created for the hype? Magenta looked cool!
The £4M was just a good headline. Tony James wrote: "We signed, as was my dream, part of the script, to E.M.I. England’s finest. Corner stone. Beatles, Pistols. Manchester Square here I come. And did we get 4 million pounds? Well not quite.....
Journalist Chris Salewitz had randomly plucked that figure out of the air for a piece he was writing about us in the Sunday Times and four million pounds translated in to six million dollars, so we became the “six million dollar band’ which appealed to me because I loved “Six Million Dollar Man”, the tv series in America starring Lee Majors. As usual I didn’t stop to think of the implications of this new boast and the type of headlines it would generate."
All fur coat and no knickers, love they made no secret of trying to copy what the Sex Pistols did [Rip off EMI and run]