Mike Oldfield - ATV Today 1978 (MACE Archive) 

I think Amarok was the last great work he did.

@@Ian-gw2vx I thought that Tubular Bells 2 and 3 were all right. And I did like his Songs of Distant Earth.

@@Ian-gw2vx he was angry with Branson with Amorak. Maybe that helped. He didnt want any section to be long enough to be playable on the radio. Thats why its so disjointed and full of jump scares. Thers also some hidden message telling Branson to fuck off. I think its his best guitar work.

a a a a a @@Ian-gw2vx

@@matthewhyatt281 Tubular Bells II "Alright" lol. It's a fucking masterpiece.

Agree, he's very attractive 😍

He's gorgeous

I totally agree, he should get more recognition.

Yes!

The old fallacy of "grass is greener in the other side". I do not envy Mike's life, specially at the beginning of his career, and the fact that his mom passed away very close to this time. As he, and others that worked with him have stated, his beautiful music, and also need for reclusion in old english farm houses, and poorly habitated islands in the pacific, all come from his inner struggle, misery, and social inadequacy, specially up until the 80's, but then came the bad vices. And that is why his music is like medicine, it serves to heal him first, and that's why its also intemporal music. His last album, Return to Ommadawn, brings my ears and soul as much joy as the first albums. In 300 years, people can still listen to a full Mike Oldfield album (or more), and it will still resonate on a very high and seldom achievable level.

I do. I'd love it if mike would produce more of his early style of music. I grew up on the 70s and miss it alot . So mike please take us back there. Oh and return to ommadawn. Bliss. Absolutely bliss. Especially part 1. Thanks mike. I'll love you for ever.

little old me has had a great life. He hasnt had a better one. That said, thank god my life has had Mike Oldfield in it. All my child hood and teens are timestamped by his music. Thats how this works for me.

Oh yes I discovered Mike's music in the late 70s. I was going through my teenage years. It help me go through that time. I still listen to his work. Long live his music.

Exactly. I always like to listen to him, whatever the subject. (He is always interesting though.)

Love him too!!! 😍😍😍

Mike bought that house for £82k, and sold it for £120k. It sold a couple of years ago for £4.4m.

@@gilessteve Madness that he sold it though. Best property he has had in my opinion.

@@Ian-gw2vx Agreed, the best by a long shot. I've loved Througham Slad since seeing it pictured in the handbook of his _Boxed_ album set released in the 1970's. When Bitcoin goes to £5m per coin, I'll be moving in! lol

@@gilessteve I only have about £19 worth of bitcoin in my account so its not going to happen for me. Oh to be away from a busy road.

@@Ian-gw2vx I'm pretty old, so very unlikely to happen for me too! I live in Bulgaria now, having got tired of living in the UK. You can buy a house in a village away from main roads for £5k here. It'd be in need of renovation for that price, but would probably include a stone barn and a large garden.

WHAT?!?!?! Oh my....ahhhhh!!!! You are so lucky! To meet one my idols. He looks so sweet 😍 and is incredibly talented which is an understatement! For him to learn over 20 instruments is astounding. Plus he is very easy on the eyes lol! I would love to live in that area....i want to live in London, always have.

He walks a bit like a robot. Probably an INTP thing.

He recorded Hergest Ridge while at the Beacon, and also Ommadawn before he moved here.

I agree. It multiplied his problems over time.

Sorry, what is exegesis?

I think exergensis happened before Incantations? After the course he changed bits that he had started on, or began anew, the result being Incantations. So without exegesis we wouldn't have the version of Incantations that we have.

@@c.c.6930 Exegesis was a course that Mike went on, in order to deal with his childhood trauma and introversion. It was a bit of a kind of primal therapy, where you release any pent-up feelings and demons by screaming. After the course he seemed to become more out-going and the music is considered to have mellowed.

I agree. I can't imagine a nicer house.

So this must have been his next home after living in The Beacon at Hergest Ridge?

@@markstewart1807 Hi Mark -yes this was his next home and he built his studio in the opposite barn -i went there in 1976 -he was recording First Excursion for the Boxed album!

@andrewkostelnyk272 thanks Andrew so he didn't actually stay in the The Beacon that long.

Hi Mark no he was only at The Beacon a cpuple of years =and did Hergest Ridge /Ommadawn@@markstewart1807

And then he wrote Five Miles Out about flying aircraft!

No disrespects to Mike Oldfield, but he should of researched the property before moving there. Kemble is no longer an active airbase and RAF Fairford isn't that far away, which hosts NATO exercises from the base a few times in the year... I know exactly where that property is, as I only live a couple of miles from it.... Nice place though...

Dont think he moved untill the smoking ban which made him move to Spain. Ive not heard or seen the US planes at all. Only just moved here tho but my fella has lived here born here & moved back here.

@@indicablue7450 He moved from this house in the video shortly after this interview. He didn't move to Spain until the 90s. Now he lives in the Bahamas.

What is the MACE website?

@@hogne www.macearchive.org/films/atv-today-27051980-mike-oldfield

It's clearly a fault in the tape.

Yes. By 1980 he'd moved to Little Halings in Denham, which is much closer to London.

Must be post, considering his appearance, and he also mentions how he has "changed" around 4:10 into the video.

It certainly is.

And the 3 THREE thousand feet... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Yeah man. What for? To be tax free I guess and live next to Richard Branson

The Beacon is a shack compared to this, and I have been to see it.