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The Cure – A Forest Live in 1979
Here is a rare clip of The Cure before Robert Smith began backcombing his hair and raiding his mother’s make-up box.
Here’s The Cure performing a song called At Night which went on to be reworked and eventually released as A Forest in 1980.
I believe this is a live [...]

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The Psychedelic Furs – Sister Europe
The Psychedelic Furs are probably best remembered for ‘Pretty In Pink’, and only then because of a more glossy remixed re-release in 1986 as the main title track of a John Hughes blockbuster teen film of the same name.
But there was a lot more to the Psychedelic Furs, and [...]

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Human League – Being Boiled, Live TV Performance from 1979
The quality of this live television performance is not very good, but I thought a clip of the original Human League performing Being Boiled was still worth posting.
Being Boiled was originally released in 1978 on Fast Records.  Allegedly this clip is from 1979 but I don’t [...]

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Tom Robinson Band – Up Against The Wall, Top Of The Pops, 1978
Tom Robinson has reinvented himself as a great radio dj, but in the late 1970’s he was a angry young man!
Most commonly heard Tom Robinson Band song is the over-rated pop sing-a-long pop song 2-4-6-8 Motorway; while Glad To Be Gay is sometimes mentioned [...]

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The Undertones – Teenage Kicks, 1970’s
John Peel was possibly right when he said Teenage Kicks by The Undertones was the perfect pop song.  Here’s the original promo video of the band miming to one of the best pop songs of all time.

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