A look back at Channel 4's ground-breaking live music show 'The Tube' with hosts, Paula Yates' and Jools Holland's reminiscences on the shows' making. Featured acts in this show: The Jam U2
With the help of laurence fox then yes we will see programmes like the tube again I miss these times the tube old grey whistle test or great shows I loved watching TV then
Raw & "live" plenty of rock meets roll of a drum, Jools spoke with a little plum in his mouth, Paula lays relaxed in leathers across the bed. We always liked what she had said. Words of rhyme were super fine, there were bands that never, ever mimed, that we can be sure.
Joolz is wrong. It wasn't 'shoddy'. Like most of Channel Four back then, it was experimental and loose but FAR more exciting and entertaining than the same old, same old routine on his 'Later With...' programme. Actually can you just transport me back to 1983 or 84, please? We were SO lucky!
Does any one know if the summer tubes alnights are any where ? On one of them they used to have a documentary from late 60s with cream and the doors . One show had some black white film with FREE playing live ?
The brilliant tube gets cancelled, but Saville on top of the pops and the BBC went on, like they were respectable, same type of situation with the sex pistols and Saville n the beeb. Then t f I Friday went the same way.
Listen to Trevor Hirn TEETERING on revisiting his Geordie accent. It happens....I can vouch for it, you think of your home town while talking and it comes back. Unlike Sting.....(Gordon Southerner).
