I love the Teardrop Explodes. Saw them at Bristol Colston Hall on the culture bunker tour in 81. I missed this whistle test show due to falling asleep on the settee and waking up only to find I had missed the programme. Worth the 40 year wait.
the great thing, and i speak as a huge Teardop fan from way back when, this was the last time they not only had a great line up, but also were back to basics. Cope Balfe Dwyer, the core members back on front line. Also all the crap had been stripped back. Check out the simplicity of Balfe's key board set up. Great set list.. aready paving the way for Cope's solo career. Most underrated band ever.
When I Heard When I Dream (1980), I knew that I had to go see these boys when they came to NYC. Ha Ha I'm Drowning, Poppies in the Field, and When I Dream are rock and classics and were dance club standards in the day.
Joeyx666, You are an absolute legend. I had this on VHS many years ago, my girlfriend taped over it, I never forgave her and we actually ended up finishing over it! Thank you, thank you, thank you.
The last couple minutes are just great when Julian is in complete control of his face.😆 They start and finish on my 2 favorite songs. A close 3rd is Great Dominions.
What a fantastic band.Mr.Julian Cope underrated songwriter.His solo albums are really worth checking out.Thanks for uploading this great piece of footage.
One of the best gigs I saw was with this lineup, 10 times better than this one, it changed my life. Three hours earlier on a Lisbon street one spaced-out member of the band tried to steal my jacket for kicks but I pushed him away. Real musicians, great times!
Man, I can only imagine all of the other amazing full shows in the OGWT archives. They used to play them on VH1-Classic some 15 years ago, and I was able to catch some great ones (Tom Petty, Smiths, Hall & Oates). We need more of this available.
Thursday 1st Apr 1982 : 23:30 on BBC2 A special concert recorded at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith - presented by Anne Nightingale ... and having watched it all the way through, I'm disappointed. They weren't anywhere near as good as they were on their previous OGWT appearance in 1980 (which you can find on RU-vid).
If, back in the day, The Police, The Smiths, The Cure, and XTC got it on somehow, and spawned a bastard idiot savant, wunderkind ADHD son, then JC was that son.
Troy Tate, what happened to him? (after making a mess of The Smiths first album) ! Not really big on this lineup though, and the bassist has been listening to too much Level 42. The songs though are magnificent.
Well, I don’t know about Tate, but the bass player Ron Francois apparently lives in Australia. He was (and probably still is) a very able bass player and the slap thing was just very much in vogue at the time. His playing style is really a far cry from that of Mark King of Level 42. Francois had even released two records with the Sinceros slapping the bass, even before Level 42 released any of their stuff. At the time of this Teardrop show Level 42 was in it’s infancy having released only one complete album. As to Tate as guitarist he must at least have had the longest career any guitarist had in the Teardrops, recording the whole of Wilder.
It’s difficult to regard a person as great whose opinion of himself went so far beyond his real abilities, but there’s something unique about Julian Cope in his Teardrop Explodes days. I haven’t decided whether he’s daft for taking a pass all these years on the millions he’d have earned doing reunion tours with the Teardrops, or if he simply has _so_ much artistic integrity that he must refuse such offers. Some of his persistent megalomania probably factors into it.
Sorry to piss on your chips but I think it was a mistake to get session musicians in to replace Mick Finkler and Paul Simpson. The Cope ego was a beautiful but terrible thing
They weren't a good live band compared to their peers, listless and dull. No power in their sound, the band plays like session musicians who lack enthusiasm. But Kilimanjaro is a fantastic album that still sounds great today.
@@chriscooke4477 We're making our first album right now. Just need to play gigs so we can afford to have it mastered and then pressed into vinyl or CDs, whichever we can afford. I am really proud of it so far.