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Jesus & Mary Chain - Just Like Honey & Inside Me
For those of you that have been to see The Jesus & Mary Chain in the past couple of years and wondered what happened to that perfect archaic live ear-splitting noise, here’s JAMC performing the very wonderful Just Like Honey & Inside Me from their [...]

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A Certain Ratio - Wild Party & Inside, The Tube, 1985
While Joy Division and New Order were always the most popular and most commercially successful bands on Tony Wilson’s Manchester based FactoryRecords label, I always loved the white funk of A Certain Ratio (ACR), so it was with great anticipation and excitement that I watched [...]

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The Smiths - This Charming Man - The Tube - 1982
In the early 1980’s UK tv had three main music programmes - Top Of The Pops, Whistle Test and The Tube.
The Tube went out live on Friday evenings from 5.30 -7.00PM and as well as live performances they also videoed unsigned bands such as The [...]

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