The show was on 5.30 - 7pm Friday, and then repeated on Sunday afternoon. I would take my portable TV into the bathroom and watch it getting ready to go out on Friday night, taking notes of the best videos/performances to tape off the telly on the Sunday. It was the first TV Music show that ran for more than half an hour and as such was a feast comparably. God I’m old…..
Oh yes! Watching it whilst getting ready to go out - some good memories there! Oh dear, I used to spend loads of time and money on my hair and make-up!
Looking back, it's incredible how they mixed live footage with edited segments. I was 18 and a dancer on the show (yup, plants to liven up the audience). You will not beleive the stars we casually had drinks with in the pub after the show.
This WAS the start of the weekend. Friday night, home from work, everyone watched THE TUBE...and Monday morning everyone spoke about it. LIVE. RELEVANT. Ah yeah.
We got the re-runs at home in Australia and stopped so quickly.. heartbroken at 9!! I waited a lifetime to watch it and haven't stopped since I got here.. long ago... Funny how life goes.. I miss Paula still, that heartbreak will never leave. Thank you gorgeous girl.xx
Terrestrial TV has nothing like this now. They stopped shows like this, and even TOTP. No wonder no-one watches those channels anymore! I'll never forget seeing my hero on the Tube - Paul Haig. BIG BLUE WORLD! ps Seeing Eric and Alf with Jools on piano... that is one major moment!
Absolutely amazing, I know I was only born in 1992 and wasn't around when this was on tv but it's never too late to sit down and have a catch up and go through these tv shows like the tube, it's still relevant to me cause I love music from that era and people like you uploading old episodes of the tube gives me a chance to watch it that ive never seen it before, only seen it on guy garveys the vault on sky arts on fridays
I remember my guitar teachers band were on The Tube...I was 13 and couldn't believe someone I knew was going to be on telly. Wish I could remember their name...
It was a channel 4 program made to counter the bbcs placid attempts at making a music show, it need to be everything the bbc hated, that's why it was such a success
Thanks for posting. The channel ScottishTeeVee posted every episode from every season of The Tube at one point but was forced to take them down. No doubt this will also see the same fate before too long, but good on you for posting anyway! I grew up in the states and we had nothing as amazing as the tube on tv. We had MTV but they didn’t have the commitment to showing LIVE bands that the tube did. Watching Killing Joke live for the first time melted my face off it was so friggin awesome! The UK has a much better understanding and respect for pop culture. They celebrate it but at the same time don’t get too carried away. I absolutely adore programs like The Tube and would give anything to have access to the entire archive that ScottishTeeVee had/has. When he had every episode posted, I literally was watching for days on end; always had it going in the background. And I was BLOWN AWAY by the incredibly diverse roster of acts like: Killing Joke, Chaka Khan, Yazoo, Lords of the New Church, Siouxsie and the Banshees w Robert Smith on guitar (!!!) to name a few! Hell even Spandau (barf) Ballet put on a decent show. So cool! Thanks again for posting and post MORE of ya got em!
I missed The Tube first time round but in my defence I was 12. I was not ready for the background beyond the tunes of the day. So much content in this one episode- I thought it must be a compilation.
Met Simon Le Bon I in Hurley on Thames in Ye Olde Bell Hotel in late 80s where I was working as a chambermaid. He was there having lunch with Yasmin and her parents. He asked me where the gents were and I said they are right behind you sir and he said thank you.
in about 1988 & year before his 1st hit single , Adamski kept asking for my honest opinion if his band was any good after their set at The Railway pub in our town Lymington. i think he was off his face a bit but he was a very nice bloke. Not a patch on your Simon moment as Adam wasn’t a name by then but thought I’d add something & would like to think that our daughter whom works in hospitality would also be treated with respect by a celebrity.
Strange Days were a British band based in York during the 1980s. Formerly known as The Sirens under which name they released one single: "Crusade" - B-side: "Close to Tears" - on their own label. A change of name to Strange Days saw them signed to local record label Powerstation Records, releasing the single "Within These Walls" with the b-side "Swimming Into The Doctor" in the mid-1980s. They appeared on Channel 4's music show The Tube in 1982 performing their self-penned 1980s anthem "Scream in Vain".
When i was at college Charlie T in Newcastle in 1982, couple of lads used to go down to the Tyne Tees studio on city road to watch it ...wish i had gone now 😢.
It's hard to believe just how good this programme was. Edgy current music, not the Cowell inspired crap of these days. How we could do with something similar now. as I type, there's a ITV special on Girls aloud. I rest my case.
@@oddsandwindsocks5905 It was definitely just after school. I checked the online Television and Radio database and it lists it starting at 5:15pm and ending for the news at 7pm on Friday 5th November 1982. Channel 4 started service on the 2nd November 1982.
strange Days thought they were going to be the next Bunnymen. Still find the summers and fripp coloboration nuts, Channel 4 was so edgy and exciting in the early days
And to think that The Bangles would eventually record at least THREE of THE iconic hits of the 80s! "Manic Monday", "Walk Like An Egyptian" & "Eternal Flame!" I their "Different Light" lp!
So very long ago. 42 years. I watched many episodes on broadcast. I found it variable: some of the music was thrilling, the presenters were funny and amiable, most of the 'comedy' was embarrassingly naff.
Hard to imagine that just about everyone appearing on this has either now got, or at least knocking on, their bus passes. Apart from Paula Yates. Forever young.
As a german, the fact that literally everybody displays such a harsh sense of humour is quite delightful. Wouldn’t have happened in a German TV show in 1982…or in 2022. What is in your water?
It's hard to believe how good the Tube was, time goes by so fast, what a great time to be alive in the analogue 80,s.
Analogue as in tons of synthesizers? OK, I got it.
CD's aren't analogue.
@@chrissygerwitz520 Most synthesizers in the 80's were digital.
@@sandgrownun66 Of course. Some of the comments on YT (like the OP's) boggle the mind.
Good? It was a pile of middle class crap trying to feign rebellion and controversy. Mainstream media tripe.
I was 18 and used to watch it religiously! Better music, better days indeed.
YES!
Same
Better days because you were 80. Early 80s were incredibly bleak for a most people.
It was a damn sight better in the 80’s than it is now!! At least it was still Britain.
I was 16 and did exactly the same, i think it was broadcast on friday so we would watch it then go out 🍻🍺
The show was on 5.30 - 7pm Friday, and then repeated on Sunday afternoon. I would take my portable TV into the bathroom and watch it getting ready to go out on Friday night, taking notes of the best videos/performances to tape off the telly on the Sunday. It was the first TV Music show that ran for more than half an hour and as such was a feast comparably. God I’m old…..
OGWT lasted lost longer than 30 mins...
Oh yes! Watching it whilst getting ready to go out - some good memories there! Oh dear, I used to spend loads of time and money on my hair and make-up!
We used to watch it as we got ready to go out.
Great days. I wish it was 1982 again.
So do I. I was in the middle of puberty. A period of my life I absolutely excelled at 🤣🤣🤣
Yazoo ..Iconic music for the generation. You guys should be proud, love the raw vox Alison. I still live the 80s in many ways.
My halcyon days 😊 I was 19 in 1982, still living with mum and dad, working, had money to spend on clothes and going out at the weekends. ❤
Same here, those were the days❤
Snap👍
Spot on pal
those were the days u looked forward to the tube . u actualy had to wait😂😂
I wish The Tube had been broadcasted in the States. We missed out on so much.
I used to watch this every week. Great memories.
How fabulous. These full episodes of The Tube are lifesavers!
Looking back, it's incredible how they mixed live footage with edited segments. I was 18 and a dancer on the show (yup, plants to liven up the audience). You will not beleive the stars we casually had drinks with in the pub after the show.
Ah!! The 80s how simple how easy was that ,I miss those days ,no phones no internet but happy as could be
We had less,but we had so much more.
So much more ,and probably didn't realise
Humanity was never as dirty as it is today!
Amazing. Watching this on a TV 3× the size of the one we had in those days, and in my own house where nobody can tell me to "turn that shit down!" 😂
Original & iconic. I was 13 in 82 watching it growing up in Dublin Ireland. Blast from the past. 🇮🇪
This was a great programme. A must every Friday night.
Really enjoyed Jools Holland as a presenter, he's still very good at it now.
I was 21, one of the best programmes at that time.
The 80's were the best time to be young and alive 🥳🎉🎈🍾
I'm so grateful
This WAS the start of the weekend. Friday night, home from work, everyone watched THE TUBE...and Monday morning everyone spoke about it.
LIVE.
RELEVANT.
Ah yeah.
Can´t believe this was 40 years ago, how time flies.
Tempus Fugit as the Romans would say.
Situation love from Yazoo is EVERYTHING, WOW!
The Tube has never been bettered! Paula Yates is so bloody missed! RIP lady! 💕💕
We got the re-runs at home in Australia and stopped so quickly.. heartbroken at 9!!
I waited a lifetime to watch it and haven't stopped since I got here.. long ago... Funny how life goes.. I miss Paula still, that heartbreak will never leave.
Thank you gorgeous girl.xx
Terrestrial TV has nothing like this now. They stopped shows like this, and even TOTP. No wonder no-one watches those channels anymore! I'll never forget seeing my hero on the Tube - Paul Haig. BIG BLUE WORLD! ps Seeing Eric and Alf with Jools on piano... that is one major moment!
This is by far the best 1:32:50 of TV I've watched in ages. They cover so much!
I had such a crush on Belinda Carlisle. Also a rare live set from the magnificent Yazoo. Brilliant 👏
Tine was a must watch for 80s teenager, punk, new wave, disco.. fabulous ❤
Life pre-internet was much more innocent and fun. Great times 😊
Groundbreaking, never been close to anything so good in 40 years.
Dear god how absolutely fantastic is Alf here… yazoo fan for life.
Loved it 13 years old, bunking off school working in a garage in the week and building firm the weekend 👍🇬🇧👌top days
God. I’d forgotten about the Tube. Thanks for posting
Absolutely amazing, I know I was only born in 1992 and wasn't around when this was on tv but it's never too late to sit down and have a catch up and go through these tv shows like the tube, it's still relevant to me cause I love music from that era and people like you uploading old episodes of the tube gives me a chance to watch it that ive never seen it before, only seen it on guy garveys the vault on sky arts on fridays
Andy Sumner's and Fripp on guitars
Reminds me of the duelling banjo’s anyone else?
I remember my guitar teachers band were on The Tube...I was 13 and couldn't believe someone I knew was going to be on telly. Wish I could remember their name...
Cannot understand why they don't replay these episodes of the tube
But they replay EastEnders and Coronation street ??
Probably copyright issues
Guy Garveys From the Vaults show has some of the performances on.
It was a channel 4 program made to counter the bbcs placid attempts at making a music show, it need to be everything the bbc hated, that's why it was such a success
Thanks for posting. The channel ScottishTeeVee posted every episode from every season of The Tube at one point but was forced to take them down. No doubt this will also see the same fate before too long, but good on you for posting anyway!
I grew up in the states and we had nothing as amazing as the tube on tv. We had MTV but they didn’t have the commitment to showing LIVE bands that the tube did. Watching Killing Joke live for the first time melted my face off it was so friggin awesome!
The UK has a much better understanding and respect for pop culture. They celebrate it but at the same time don’t get too carried away. I absolutely adore programs like The Tube and would give anything to have access to the entire archive that ScottishTeeVee had/has. When he had every episode posted, I literally was watching for days on end; always had it going in the background. And I was BLOWN AWAY by the incredibly diverse roster of acts like: Killing Joke, Chaka Khan, Yazoo, Lords of the New Church, Siouxsie and the Banshees w Robert Smith on guitar (!!!) to name a few! Hell even Spandau (barf) Ballet put on a decent show.
So cool! Thanks again for posting and post MORE of ya got em!
Bullshit. We had plenty of that, just before your time. Midnight Special, Don Kirchner's Rock Show. Look for them
Jools recently said on his social media if anyone had the link for the tube, this brings back so many memories. Hope it won’t be deleted.
Remember so well, filmed 13 miles from my home town!
OMG Eric Burdon is beautiful. Loved seeing him and alison Moyet singing!!
I really must the honesty of the 1980s , we need that back but somehow, I doubt it
I so love Alf. The undeniable Star of the show.
I missed The Tube first time round but in my defence I was 12. I was not ready for the background beyond the tunes of the day. So much content in this one episode- I thought it must be a compilation.
The bangles right at the start, didnt realise how huge they were going to get..fantastic group..iconic..esp walk like an Egyptian.
When popstars knew their craft and was therefore worthwhile interviewing
Met Simon Le Bon I in Hurley on Thames in Ye Olde Bell Hotel in late 80s where I was working as a chambermaid. He was there having lunch with Yasmin and her parents. He asked me where the gents were and I said they are right behind you sir and he said thank you.
in about 1988 & year before his 1st hit single , Adamski kept asking for my honest opinion if his band was any good after their set at The Railway pub in our town Lymington. i think he was off his face a bit but he was a very nice bloke. Not a patch on your Simon moment as Adam wasn’t a name by then but thought I’d add something & would like to think that our daughter whom works in hospitality would also be treated with respect by a celebrity.
Wild to see Harry Perry (The rollers skating guitar player) on Venice Beach all that time ago - He's not changed all that much
Strange Days were a British band based in York during the 1980s. Formerly known as The Sirens under which name they released one single: "Crusade" - B-side: "Close to Tears" - on their own label. A change of name to Strange Days saw them signed to local record label Powerstation Records, releasing the single "Within These Walls" with the b-side "Swimming Into The Doctor" in the mid-1980s. They appeared on Channel 4's music show The Tube in 1982 performing their self-penned 1980s anthem "Scream in Vain".
Ta da, da, da, da....Ta da, da, da, da....Ta da, da, da, da....Ta da, da, da, da....Ta da, da, da, da....
Okay mate,just admit you were a member of the band and this was your 15 minutes of fame lololol
Interesting to see The Bangles as veritable nobodies who would eventually become as popular as (if not more than) The Go Gos.
I was 12 watching this, hard to believe this is over 40 years ago .
When i was at college Charlie T in Newcastle in 1982, couple of lads used to go down to the Tyne Tees studio on city road to watch it ...wish i had gone now 😢.
OMGOOODNESS - In My Room from Yazoo. This is all toooo FAB!
Alison Moyet is fabulous here.
They look like some art school project
So young and So talented
Synthpop bores.
God I was 12 back then and the Tube was out of this world..with posers as presenters and great alternative Bands ..far cooler that TOTPS
Belinda live in 82...christ where did time go..im 62 now.!!!
The early days of the wireless microphone........when Jools is walking along at the start, the old VHF drop outs in signal
It's hard to believe just how good this programme was. Edgy current music, not the Cowell inspired crap of these days. How we could do with something similar now. as I type, there's a ITV special on Girls aloud. I rest my case.
Yazoo, fantastic 👍🏆🇬🇧
A serious blast from the past.
Youth culture was very optimistic in the early 80s despite the fact the economy, unemployment, etc, were in a terrible state.
@@ajs41 Compared to the 2020s the 1980s were Heavenly.
The Go-Gos were so amazing & ahead of their time
hahaha,no!
Belinda was heavier then.
The Tube was a groundbreaking show looking back.
Can everyone who still has old VHS of The Tube PLEASE upload their stuff?! Thank you, 80s darlings! 💕💕
Coming home from school on a Friday and watching this at 5:30pm was nuts!
I thought it was on later near 11pm .
@@oddsandwindsocks5905 It was definitely just after school. I checked the online Television and Radio database and it lists it starting at 5:15pm and ending for the news at 7pm on Friday 5th November 1982. Channel 4 started service on the 2nd November 1982.
@@172Break ok fair point , I'm 53 I must of been thinking of another show like this .
@@oddsandwindsocks5905 Maybe your thinking about The Word.
I’ve forgotten how good the Gogos actually were oh my - sometimes I wish it was the early 80’s once more
I always remember when Shalimar appeared and gave a great performance......remember also first time I saw Wet Wet Wet on The Tube.
So great to see the Go-Gos 40 years ago.
A youthful Dickie Davies at the start there.....
Nozin' Around.....
strange Days thought they were going to be the next Bunnymen. Still find the summers and fripp coloboration nuts, Channel 4 was so edgy and exciting in the early days
And they disappeared after this broadcast and were never seen again .
@@southerner4566Yeah, I couldn't help feeling lead singer was acting as if he was bigger than Le Bon. Ego probably scuppered a lot of chances.
Strange Days song is awesome. never Heard it before
They never made it did they, No one heard of them again after this
First year any Manchester university great music and memories
And to think that The Bangles would eventually record at least THREE of THE iconic hits of the 80s! "Manic Monday", "Walk Like An Egyptian" & "Eternal Flame!" I their "Different Light" lp!
That Eric Burdon film looks a riot.
Maisonettes classic tune!
The Go Gos!! Proper live bands! Bring this back!!
Duran Duran possibly the best looking band of all time
Japan
Roger Taylor was my favorite, he was the cutest ❤
So very long ago. 42 years. I watched many episodes on broadcast. I found it variable: some of the music was thrilling, the presenters were funny and amiable, most of the 'comedy' was embarrassingly naff.
Loved the Tube.
Everyone trying to be too cool and just coming across really awkward.
Quaintly of its era. :D
Hard to imagine that just about everyone appearing on this has either now got, or at least knocking on, their bus passes. Apart from Paula Yates. Forever young.
In just a few short years, we’d all be hooning around Venice Beach in GTA V ourselves.
Imagine compiling a list of every musician Jools Holland has accompanied on piano over the years. Quite a list.
The Tube was so damn good.
What a time to be alive!
The Best music programme ever
Paula Yates was amazing😍.
Alison moyet is so talented
Can't believe all these people are now in their 60s.
Andy Summers is 80
Yep. So many of us aged badly. Apart from Alf.
A real honesty , it was theshow of new channel 4 At time
Those two girls dressed in a 1960s style doing backing vocals for The Maisonettes look so sexy,I hope that fashion comes back one day.
As a german, the fact that literally everybody displays such a harsh sense of humour is quite delightful. Wouldn’t have happened in a German TV show in 1982…or in 2022. What is in your water?
@Maxine McKenzie 23 Tory sewage.
Banter
Brought up on pure sarcasm from an early age!
Steve Cram @25:00 ? That was a bit random??
i always thought this was broadcasted from newcastle....
That Mark guy doing the rigmarole…unreal
Mark Miwurdz
A great show indeed
Was that Strange days singer Curt from Tears for Fears, Curt Smith ?.
Whatever became of “Strange Days”? They sounded pretty cool . . .
Fantastic to see this
His voice is incredible. Is it Eric Burden ? Wow something other about it. Free.... oh yea)
Jools and Paula ❤❤❤
Wonder what ever happened to Strange Days....
Strange days never heard of again
Steve fucking Cram in a Top Man sweater. Oh my days ...