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Public Image Ltd (PiL) - Careering & Poptones, The Old Grey Whstle Test
Here is one of the most powerful performances both Annie Nightingale and I ever saw on The Old Grey Whsitle.  Public Image Limited, PiL at their very very best performing Careering & Poptones in 1980.
Johnny Rotten was still known as John Lydon and [...]

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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 Cocteau Twins - Hazel live at The Brixton Ace Theatre in 1982
As a part of the new Channel 4, there was a ‘youth’ programme on Monday nights called Whatever You Want introduced by a very young Keith Allen.  The programme was pretty awful, if my memory serves me well, but at the end of [...]

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Bow Wow Wow - C30 C60 C90 Go!
In 1980 Adam Ant, looking to turn cult success into commercial adoration, thought it would be a good idea to get ex-Sex Pistols and New York Dolls manager, Malcolm McLaren to manage Adam & The Ants. Unfortunately, one of the first things he did was to sack [...]

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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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