The 70s and 80s was the best years in my life and would go back in a heart beat , I remember all the family sitting there on a Saturday night watching this , the tv was great entertainment on a Saturday night and we only had 3 channels lol , Not like today the scum on the streets your scared to go out
Jeez, I was 24 when we performed on that show. Popular music has changed so much, but you're right though. There's loads of great music still being made if you look for it on Spotify and whatever. Don't just rely on the radio.
The show was televised in studio A while Johnny Patrick's orchestra were set up in studio B. And with an audio monitor from the show, the orchestra played the accompaniment in real time to that first band while the band had a small monitor speaker allowing them to hear the orchestra. It was a really crap sound and you had to strain your ears to hear the orchestra. We (the last band Destiny) only realised later we were drifting in and out of time with the orchestra.
Blimey what a load of rubbish...I watched the 80s version and this was no better...all these talent shows including opportunity knocks were abysmal...I wouldn't normally say this but for once...thank goodness Punk came along...... you now can understand why they had a go at the establishment... mickey most was spot on if he thought they lacked tallent... I have never watched any of the pop idol nonsense and its ilk... Jim Davidson or Lenny Henry could not fail looking back..whilst this rubbish was on, BBC 1 had DR Who with Tom Baker on and pulled better viewing figures ...
Stand up comedy is so hard to do well and hit the mark. Thats why Manning, Miller, Carson, Goodwin et.al. are rightly revered as kings of a very difficult trade.
He worked for TVS and TSW as a presenter till 1988. He seems to have fallen off the TV radar and I think joined the many ex-celebrities on the after dinner speaker circuit.
Hi Andrew, I've said this a few times, but my explanations are buried amongst the loads of comments. I was on this particular show and about 16 years ago, somebody had put up the performance of 5 A Side, the first band. I got in touch with whoever put it up and it turned out that they'd approached Albert Stevenson, the producer, after seeing a documentary about the Maori act. Anyway Albert was very kind to send them back a copy of the broadcast tape, which the guy put onto a DVD for me. Albert will have passed on long ago, but I'm sure whoever is in charge of his estate, will be sitting on many more of those broadcast tapes.
Good to see that you survived it all Isabella. I hope that watching the show here brought back some good memories. If you want to, you could let me have your email address, and I can send you a WeTransfer download link to the mp4 file for you to keep. My email is karly.b2022@gmail.com
Jack Parnell comes across as clueless in his analyses. Calling Flamenco guitar 29:13 ‘not real guitar playing’ and then taking about 49:29 ‘instruments not being quite right’. Mickie Most on the other hand was brilliant and insightful in most of his criticism. Great upload
Thanks, I agree with your opinion of Jack Parnell. He just rode on the back of his old man, Val Parnell. Had his own orchestra at one time, but I guess in name only. I can't imagine he arranged any of the music for it. He had been a talented pit drummer though.
I'm afraid not. I was lucky to get this one episode, thanks to the son of one of the lads in the first group 5 A Side. They'd approached Albert Stevenson the producer of the show and he let them have a broadcast copy of the it. I doubt that Albert is still alive, but his heirs might have access to whatever collection of shows he may have kept.
Very enjoyable episode. I watched New Faces regularly. No nastiness from the panel, nor excessive egos on show. Much prefer this to the similar shows on TV now. I'm still searching for the '73 episode when Ken Worthington 'TV's Mr Clarinet Man' came last and got blasted by the panel lol.
'I like my Maori's a little darker.' 'They are warm, smiley, happy people. I can't understand why they killed Captain Cook.' The 1970s were frigging awesome.
Hi Mistofoles you're right, the plectrum is used to pluck the strings. The capo, that they're on about, goes on the neck to hold the strings down, if the guitarist wants to change the key and make the chords easier to play.
Awww thanks Ann. We've got new recordings out that you can hear on Spotify and You Tube and we've a couple of CDs out too (cheap at a tenner) . If you're interested in buying any, just ask Denise and we'll arrange it.
I'm sorry Steve, I wish I had more (this is the only one). Albert Stevenson, one of the show's producers apparently had a large collection of the broadcast tapes, but I'm sure he's long passed on.
