The English Beat - Mirror In The Bathroom (Live at US Festival 9/3/1982)

The English Beat (a.k.a. The Beat) perform their hit single "Mirror In The Bathroom" live at the US Music Festival in San Bernardino in 1982. "Mirror in the Bathroom" was released as a single in 1980 from their debut album, "I Just Can't Stop It". It reached #4 in the UK charts and consequently was their biggest selling single/highest charting single in the UK until 1983. The English Beat was one of two bands that played the US Festival both years (1982 &1983) the other band being Oingo Boingo.
The English Beat are a 2 Tone ska revival band founded in Birmingham, England in 1978. Their songs fuse ska, pop, soul, reggae and punk rock, and their lyrics deal with themes of love, unity and sociopolitical topics.
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Lyrics:
Mirror in the bathroom
Please talk free
The door is locked
Just you and me.
Can I take you to a restaurant
That's got glass tables
You can watch yourself
While you are eating.
Mirror in the bathroom
I just can't stop it,
Every Saturday you see me
Window shopping.
Find no interest
In the racks and shelves
Just ten thousand reflections
Of my own sweet self, self, self...
Mirror in the bathroom
You're my mirror in the bathroom
You're my mirror in the bathroom
You're my mirror in the bathroom...
Mirror in the bathroom
Recompense
For all my crimes
Of self defense.
Cures you whisper
Make no sense
Drift gently into
Mental illness.
Mirror in the bathroom
Please talk free
The door is locked
Just you and me.
Can I take you to a restaurant
That's got glass tables
You can watch yourself
While you are eating.
Mirror in the bathroom
Mirror in the bathroom...

[@sdsurfers1]

I was there with 4 friends. It was HOT as hell and we were 16. Oingo Boingo and the B-52's killed it also! : ) GANG OF FOUR too!

[@markbrandus]

Was there - 102F in the middle of the MF desert! I'm stage left in the crowd. What a day. B-52's, The Ramones, Oingo Boingo, The English Beat, Talking Heads, The Police at night.

[@jsee5036]

I was there too and it seemed like 122 degrees!...lol

[@specex]

I was there too. It was hot, but everyone was stripped down to minimum, so it was all good.

[@alhollywood6486]

Dude, mad respect. I was just a little too young to make my parents let me go.

[@jeffreyday2414]

Even with the heat! what a lineup. lucky you

[@Digginbehindthedikes]

I kept asking myself who that guy stage left was but it's you apparently!

[@HDIrwin]

That Bass line is still awesome :-)

[@Leo-lr4eq]

How unfair, that I had to be born in 2003. Much too late to be able to witness a show like this.

[@goldenhourkodak]

Go see other shows. Lots of good study today too.

[@delta0921]

RIP Ranking Roger - 3/26/2019 - good memories of my college years.

[@Rose-qd2bl]

Yes!

[@KenWallaceFilms]

Saw The Beat open for the Talking Heads at the Greek Theater in LA -- one of the best concerts ever.

[@cherrygarcia1845]

nice. my sister went to miami u in Oxford, OH and got to see talking heads at millet hall.

[@barrygaynor1025]

Now that's 80's.

[@kenbashara4291]

what a great time that was SKA at its finest in the early 80's

[@Fizzbomb123]

These good times will never return....

[@jendrix56]

MASTERPIECE!!!...go THE BEAT!!! .The good times!!!!

[@CharlesMurphyphotography]

Brilliant track, loved this era in the UK

[@timfronimos459]

hey at 1:56 i just saw myself in the crowd. i'm the guy in the 23rd row behind the girl in the tshirt next to the girl screaming ...

[@ronniechilds2002]

Saw them in about 1980 opening for the Pretenders. I had never heard of these cats, but man, the raised the freaking roof. Everybody came away impressed. One of the most energetic shows I've ever seen in my life. Just beautiful, watching them carrying on like they do.

[@waterstreet68]

Love Ranking Roger's crazy nonstop skinny guy skanking!!!

[@user-hg1sh5hk5f]

Frickin fantabulous still and gives us goosebumps.God blesssss Rankin🙏🙏🙏🇹🇭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧😷

[@kevinsmith2892]

R.I.P. RUDE BOY.

[@digger5521]

I remember running some lines on a mirror in a bathroom when this came on ...fucken funny as

[@Lilcoffin13]

one of my favorite ska revival song, with ghost town from the specials, and some others

[@matthewpayton]

Great song

[@LZ-dm8co]

R.I.P Ranking Roger ❤️

[@MikeRoberts1964]

Saw them the next year in Toronto....Jumped up on stage at the end to dance....5 feet to my left was the guy who became a friend for 20 years...didn't meet him for another year after that.

[@philballachino]

Great tune

[@themightysrc1962]

Bloody awesome.

[@jsee5036]

I was there and it was so hot that day.....San Bernadino in the summer.....

[@surferdude280]

I was there in 82. Had two walk about 3 miles to get there.

[@christineadams5992]

I was too. I was 14 and I stepped on a burrito in the parking area after the clash. So I saw the English beats last performance ever the last wall of voodoo show and the last real clash concert and all I got was burrito on my shoes....I hope it was a burrito

[@Fizzbomb123]

Alfred Perez Your a lucky guy to see them live...

[@CherylBuescher]

Best time EVER !!!

[@angrycat3183]

Damn they can move

[@royalerathcliff5703]

this was US Festival 1....i attended US Festival 2 in May 1983

[@barrygaynor1025]

I love it.

[@David_USF]

RIP Everrett Morton (5 April 1950 - 9 October 2021)

[@gibbyh65]

go feet go! rip roger

[@patrickbunbury9008]

Mirror mirror on that floor!

[@ELMENDORFX]

I saw The Beat/English Beat at the US Festival in 1982, hopefully I see them today at Cruel World. It was 110F+ best day, that day for music. Today is suppose to be 95F
RIP Mr Ranking Roger
Cruel World Fest
English Beat
The US Festivals

[@halfordslain7477]

Tight...

[@lmmayer8770]

Where is this place, my year of birth? Setting looks superb, crowd amazing.

[@Mateo808]

this place still exists it's now known as the San Manuel Casino Amphitheater located in Devor California (San Bernardino)

[@lmmayer8770]

Mateo808 Sweet thanks for the info.

[@tbone-lw2pk]

RIP Raking and Terry 🙏

[@tomscustomshop]

Tune

[@Fizzbomb123]

RIP Ranking Roger....

[@69glamboy]

IN THE DAY..ALL YOU NEEDED WAS A rOLAND JAZZ CHORUS..

[@timfronimos459]

not bad for a live version

[@TerrenceHewittCMA]

Do you have a "Mirror in your bathroom" ?

[@LeonTrotsky6782]

Love Rick playing that lovely Vox guitar. The 2 tone band & whole ethos. Black, white & others. ❤️ Who gives a shit. We are all human beings with our unique histories. So, fucking annoying Farage has an advert attached to joy.

[@tomsqueeze8838]

let's dance the pogo! what's the name of the lead singer again...?

[@done1675]

Bon Scott

[@randygravel2057]

Justice Beaver

[@The1234craig]

Dave Wakeling

[@Somerset-In-The-Blood]

Dave...

[@michaeljfiorito]

[@JohnBartle]

Where in the hell was Saxa?

[@contemplating1015]

Where are these guys now? Educate please.

[@affectionatepunch]

The black guy dancing was Roger Charley known as ranking roger sadly passed away yesterday on the 26th march

[@randygravel2057]

I’ve seen them twice in the last month

[@Somerset-In-The-Blood]

Still going strong check out their fb page...

[@jamesrowden303]

Fire the roadie who tuned the guitar.

[@vincegarcia6967]

Unum English beet
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[@joelfranco4946]

Fuck yea !