THE CHURCH | The Blurred Crusade | Live Concert 1982 

The early proof of Marty Wilson-Piper and Peter Koppes' dual-guitar brilliance - one of the best pairings I've ever known - and all that it would become as they kept getting better and better with experience, until lo and behold they reached their peak with Priest=Aura, IMO. It's wonderful to see this with Richard Ploog on drums, and the towering presence of Steve Kilbey and all that his songwriting genius would bring forth in the years to come - what a great band. I absolutely love these guys.

The Church , One of the most underrated bands ever. Brilliant footage from their early days. 😎 🎸 !

The holy grail. I don't have words for how I feel about this.

There are a lot of great pop songs..I have to put The Unguarded Moment in the top ten of all time..Yet I never see it listed as such. The best I see is that it is among the greatest of the 80s..Who agrees?

its 2022...and I still gonna listen to it til 2062, God-willing😇

This needs a DVD/bluray release

Absolute bliss! The paisley shirt era. Such great musicianship...takes me to a better place every time I hear their music.

ploog is a genius on drums.

I got to see once at the ANU , roughly around 1990 . Boy , they sounded beyond perfect . God bless 'em .

Best Band Ever

Just amazing.. MWP singing Field of Mars just incredible... genius in their youth.

Nice. The audio is crystal clear--and with headphones on I have Marty in my right ear, Peter in my left. It sounds great. If you're a guitar player learning how to play Church songs for the first time, this is a good tool.

This is gold.

I have been waiting for 25 years to see some good early footage of this band in their heyday. This is phenomenal. Why it has never seen the light of day staggers me ...

love it. these songs are part of my friends and my DNA. such an influence as a guitar learning teenager. And then surreally..... I end up in the band. wild. p.s. cant wait to play "tear it all away" one day soon.

Wow! and double Wow!! Where's this been all these years!!!

One of the greatest Pop groups ever!!!

opening the concert with probably one of their best songs ever is a beautiful risk! love this band so much!!! for all times!!!

This is absolutely brilliant! It's exactly how I remember them from their first UK visit in November 1982. Truly epic!

How good is this? .. the church are a unique and beautiful band to see them at the start like this is such a trip.

Two of the best tones ever from both guitar players....and the light show is amazing!!

This is still one of the best Church live performances ever caught, both audio and video, from that era.

The Ploog! This is just brilliant

Sisters- great, great song... hidden gem.

Sweet Jesus! This is a miracle video.

The soundtrack of my life…..

Wonderful, marvelous. 27 years later, I'm seeing this for the first time.

Holy moly! I have never heard "Sisters" live.... EVER. GOLD.

Amazing! Rare stuff. One of my favorite bands of all time. Also, the way Ploog is holding that left hand drumstick is wild.

MWP is the freakn man!

One of the best show ever!

Amazing! I show same tour in Madrid, really back to the 80's with aussies, long life The Church!

Haven't heard Sisters live since 1982. This is priceless

Simplemente fantástico, amo a The Church. 1982-2020.

Best band....ever? The interplay is just magical...the rhythm section of skins and heartbeat is a thing of wonder and sheer beauty.

Where has this been all my life?! ‘81 release Of Skins and Hearts is amazing!

…………every MWP sung-song are so fucking beautiful & haunting....whenever I hear a MWP song it’ll stay in my head the rest of the day ...thx op THX

Reading all comments in here, and I have found only votaires and supporters, never a sole hater... THIS IS GREAT! Symptom that THE CHURCH is one of the greatest bands ever, all around The World!!

Wow! Great to see the band in their first youthful incarnation. Brilliant lighting plus live versions of personal faves such as Too Fast For You and Tear It All Away. The only track that doesn't quite live up to the studio recording is Just For You. This footage conforms what a live powerhouse Richard Ploog was. Peter's lead guitar relatively low in the mix.

I keep coming back to this..I have youtube on as background music while chained to my desk at work..this is 52:53 of pure bliss. the guitar/drum work is as good as it gets..A great mix of tunes..this is as good as the Church (and very few groups ever did or will) achieved.

Fantastic!

Saw The Church play in Adelaide a few times in the early 80s. Great band live & in the studio

Wow wow wow!!! Thank you

Absolutely amazing!!!

Just BRILLIANT. You can't deny the quality of this band.

Pop with capital letters. Always my favourite group

PLOOGY'S GOT THE BEAT!

This is like a dream

My first experience was in 1991 (?) - The Church headlines with the UKs The Blue Aeroplanes (the band I knew and was craving to see). I had never heard of The Church. That show was at The Orpheum Theater in Boston and we were late. I MISSED the blue aeroplanes. Hell sake. We walked up to the venue and I was blasted (unbeknownst to me) with REPTILE. It painted the city streets in reverb and delay. Mind completely melts. The rest is history. I'm still here and never leaving. Just secured my tickets to see them revisit the city for Hypnogogue.

Beautiful....a superb album

Great concert. Young, raw, hormonal, beautiful harmonic music.

I love this band wow wow will revillame

I have loved these guys since "The Ungaurded Moment" which I think I first saw on Countdown.I was lucky enough to see them at thebby on the blurred crusade tour.They opened with "When you were mine"Bloody religious experience I will never forget.So love this ep too which I have the double 45 of.Great footage.

...this is beyond everything.......sisters ...Majycal......perfection from start to finish...surreal in its simplicity/complexity...words are meaningless ..unless of course they're steve's

Thanks for posting this! I told my wife if I had a time machine and could go anywhere in history, I would go back to this concert.

Thanks for sharing this. To see them perform live in their heyday is awesome..

Wow, this is fantastic. Gonna Airplay this on the bigscreen.

It's just like Steven sang, 'I told you life speeds up...' ! good stuff !

Who's going to see them on The Starfish 30th Anniversary Tour? Should be incredibly brilliant as usual.

This is my second visit to watch this epic performance! Such clear sound and vision... gives me chills. I have been in a love affair with this band's music for 38 years! My first live experience wasn't until 1984 and I have lost count how many times I have seen them. I have travelled from state to state and then country to country to see The Church. I love this period in the band's history. I have no idea where this came from but I thank my lucky stars that it is here!!!!!

Wow, mind blowing! This brings back some memories! I recall attending this exact triple-bill at the old Earls Court in St Kilda, along with the ex-GF and a few friends (Ollie, were you there? I think so). Pretty sure The Runners were the opening act, The Church in the middle and Moving Pictures were headlining on the back of their monster hit "What about me?". As you can tell from the audience reaction, "Unguarded Moment" was pretty much the only track that was well known, and perhaps a few had picked up on "Almost with you", which I think was the first single off Blurred Crusade. We Church die-hards knew the lot, of course! I remember sweating a great deal... Congrats on finding this gem and thanks for uploading it!

Electric Lash live! blew me away!

So Very Cool, Thankyou. I saw this Tour and a few after as well. Such an awesome band. I was one of their 'biggest Fans'. Pointed suede Boots and Paisley Shirts, So Cool, lol. Got 'Invited" Backstage at Souths Leagues Club 1984(?) Such cool Guys. And Peter Koppes ended up becoming my Nephews Guitar Teacher Many years later. Small World. So Amazing. Thankyou.

Brilliant!

Wow, what a gem!!

Top 20 Stoner-Rock Band on Planet Earth!

Guitar sound is great... Love this version of the Solo in Almost with you by Peter...but, both guitars are ringing true here.

saw them play at leadmills, sheffield on this tour, this takes me right back to that time, place and life...

A real gem

this is great. I was looking for Sisters live. Kept getting the Church sisters.

Ploog was an awesome drummer,

All of us at this concert were eternally blessed for the privilege

The performance of "Sisters" is terrific. Such a good song.

I second Octavian's comment below--Like discovering another Hope Diamond (or plutonium)..nothing like the early (more innocent days) of a legendary band

Stunning! Remarkable and surreal to see this after all this time. An amazing document.

Wow unexplainable high hearing sisters guitars. Thank very much for sharing

Sisters is such an underrated song!

Wow! Thanks for this!

Speechless.

Bloody brilliant!!!!

Shows how much i was into fecked up shit This was the year my mum went to heaven.- 85 Is the 1st time i heard of you ghuys and this is 2021 still love you Thanx

Omfg... where did this come from? Unbelievably brilliant, shows what an amazing live outfit they were ( and still are) back then, musically precise and also shows what an incredible drummer Ploogy was

This is a class band. ✨

A window opened on my youth, and my young soul, Ive been mesmerized by The Church all my life, more so than any other band. Saw this lineup and set list several times around 82, a real treat to see this excellent live recording. BTW my greatest Church moment is the climax of the long build-up in You Took a Piece of my Heart, nearly gave me a heart attack live at the tender age of 19. Thanks Steve, Marty, Richard, Peter.

Pure magic, brings back memories, love it :-)

good concert

good concert.

Unreal! If only I had a time machine! 😒

what a pleasure to see this! so exciting!

I've always thought of this band as a Gestalt Entity - Steve, Peter, Marty and Richard all talented individuals in their own right. Then put them all together and.........FREEEEOWWW!!!!! 💥

Wow! Thanks for posting this! The first time I saw them play was in Amsterdam, 1988. It was ridiculously loud and Steve had to shout instead of sing. A real disappointment. In the 90s I saw them play a couple of small venues in Holland several times and they were much better then. Unfortunately they always seemed to refuse to play any 'oldies' off the first 2 albums. So, it's great to see this. Amazing quality and plenty of old favorites! Those guitars...

This so good. If this kind of stuff was available on DVD I’d buy it.

Una autentica joya. The church una banda sin precedentes

You Took, OMG!

Deepest joy

Wow!! Amazing. Thank you!

I literally imagined this yesterday!!! Thought how good would it be to see something from the old days. And then this!!! My first Church gig. Hordern Pavillion 1982. I think March, I may have the ticket stub. Part of their Blurred Crusade tour. The supported a band called Moving Pictures that were huge for 15 minutes. We left after the Church, lol!!! Electric Lash was the new song, I thought it was called Electric Blush at the time. Thank you for this and I sincerely hope you have more, Heyday tour anyone??

This is amazing footage and music! Wow!

It's evident that they were opening for someone; that headliner had an incredibly tough act to follow.

This is Gold ! Thankyou