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Nobbyspiles Posts: 7,054 Forum Member ✭
05/07/21 - 14:14 in UK TV Shows #1
On Sky Arts, came across this by chance, if you like or liked your eighties tunes interesting and with a bit of an edge, I think this could be right up your street.
It features performances from the likes of The Jam, U2, Two Tone bands, Tom Waits, The Gang Of Four, and many more , some rarely seen footage too.
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05/07/21 - 14:17 #2
It's the second series.
Wish they'd play full clips and that he wouldn't yammer over them.
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05/07/21 - 15:12 #3
Both series are available on Sky Catch Up currently.
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05/07/21 - 15:23 #4
The show”Alright Now”, was that only shown in the north east? Don’t recall it myself .
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05/07/21 - 20:14 #5
Nobbyspiles wrote: »
The show”Alright Now”, was that only shown in the north east? Don’t recall it myself .
Yes, it was Tyne Tees only.
Also of note, was that cheap looking LWT one featuring Danny Baker!
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05/07/21 - 22:15 #6
It's as much interesting for the glimpses of regional TV as it is for the music.
Fecking 1990 broadcasting act!
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06/07/21 - 08:13 #7
It's about time we had a programme like this, delving into the huge ITV archive, something BBC4 has been doing with the Beeb archive for years. It's just a bit of a shame the series is so short, and that it's taken SKY to do it. One complaint is that everything is zoomed to 16x9 to fill the screen, when all this stuff would have been recorded at 4x3. I wish they'd left it alone like BBC4 do (mostly).
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06/07/21 - 08:26 #8
renzz wrote: »
It's about time we had a programme like this, delving into the huge ITV archive, something BBC4 has been doing with the Beeb archive for years. It's just a bit of a shame the series is so short, and that it's taken SKY to do it. One complaint is that everything is zoomed to 16x9 to fill the screen, when all this stuff would have been recorded at 4x3. I wish they'd left it alone like BBC4 do (mostly).
I do actually recall a weekly show that was on ITV a few years ago that used to be shown after the 10:00 news that also delved into the ITV archive of music shows but I can’t remember what it was called
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06/07/21 - 08:33 #9
Brummy Girl wrote: »
renzz wrote: »
It's about time we had a programme like this, delving into the huge ITV archive, something BBC4 has been doing with the Beeb archive for years. It's just a bit of a shame the series is so short, and that it's taken SKY to do it. One complaint is that everything is zoomed to 16x9 to fill the screen, when all this stuff would have been recorded at 4x3. I wish they'd left it alone like BBC4 do (mostly).
I do actually recall a weekly show that was on ITV a few years ago that used to be shown after the 10:00 news that also delved into the ITV archive of music shows but I can’t remember what it was called
Pop Gold.
I guess this is an evolution of that series, as they both use the Itv archive.
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06/07/21 - 08:54 #10
Westy2 wrote: »
Pop Gold.
I guess this is an evolution of that series, as they both use the Itv archive.
Yes, but this one is a bit better, as that one had terrible voice-overs from Andy Kershaw slagging off all the clips, whereas Garvey at least seems happier introducing stuff from all genres, and in a less sneery fashion. Also, that featured a few too many obscurities for obscurities' sakes, which would have been heavy-going on BBC4, let alone ITV1. Sky Arts is probably a more suitable home for this series and I've enjoyed how they've been happy to show plenty of other clips from the programmes as well as just the performances, Devo being "interviewed" on Fun Factory was particularly amusing.
Straker wrote: »
It's the second series.
Wish they'd play full clips and that he wouldn't yammer over them.
I see that in this second series they seem to have stopped the most irritating aspect of the first run, which was Garvey talking during the performances - he now seems to top and tail them and then the facts he'd read out during them appear as captions. As mentioned, I'm not sure why it's all cropped to widescreen, mind.
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14/07/21 - 18:40 #11
I caught the first series of this which started during the first week that Sky Arts became available on Freeview last year and loved it. Loving this second series, too.
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06/05/22 - 08:25 #12
Brand new series 3 starts Friday 13th May at 20:00:
MUSIC: Guy Garvey: From the Vaults
On: Sky Arts (11)
Date: Friday 13th May 2022 (starting in 7 days)
Time: 20:00 to 21:00 (1 hour long)1989. Series 3, episode 1.
The Elbow frontman returns to introduces more music performances from the TV archives, beginning with a selection from 1989 including the Stone Roses. Inspiral Carpets, Happy Mondays, Sonic Youth, the La's, Ice-T, Inner City and Neneh Cherry. Guy also takes a look at rarely seen footage of college rock favourites They Might Be Giants and 10,000 Maniacs and Black Francis performing an acoustic version of a Pixies classic.
(New Series, Subtitles, Widescreen, Series 3, Episode 1)
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Excerpt taken from DigiGuide - the world's best TV guide available from http://www.getdigiguide.tv/?p=1&r=11409Copyright (c) GipsyMedia Limited.
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06/05/22 - 11:50 #13
So glad this is coming back!
I used to love Razzmatazz, always love it when they use clips from that 😀
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06/08/22 - 08:21 #14
Heads up, there's a new episode scheduled for next Saturday 13th August at 20:00. Digiguide lists it as series 4, episode 1, but it may just be a one-off special.
MUSIC: Guy Garvey: From the Vaults
On: Sky Arts (11)
Date: Saturday 13th August 2022 (starting in 7 days)
Time: 20:00 to 21:00 (1 hour long)Electronica Special. Series 4, episode 1.
The Elbow frontman introduces an electronica special.
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Excerpt taken from DigiGuide - the world's best TV guide available from http://www.getdigiguide.tv/?p=1&r=11409Copyright (c) GipsyMedia Limited.
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06/08/22 - 08:45 #15
Thanks for that - love this series.
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06/08/22 - 10:36 #16
Part of a night of Synth goodness. The sort of thing BBC4 used to do but now they show Noel's House Party and Blankety Blank repeats.
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10/02/23 - 09:13 #17
New series starts on Friday 17th Feb at 22:15. This is listed as Series 4, Episode 1, so the previous episode in August is now classified as a Special.
MUSIC: Guy Garvey: From the Vaults
On: Sky Arts (11)
Date: Friday 17th February 2023 (starting in 7 days)
Time: 22:15 to 23:15 (1 hour long)1978 Revisited. Series 4, episode 1.
The Elbow frontman introduces more music from the TV archives, beginning by looking back at 1978.
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05/03/23 - 20:03 #18
Great to see this back for another series - brings back a lot of memories! Plus the bonus of getting to see some clips that have never been shown before.
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06/03/23 - 12:01 #19
Caught the 1982 one recently. Toyah, Mari Wilson and Flock Of Seagulls man all being asked about their hair in a group by Pauline Black, if I was paying attention - programme recorded but never aired. Amongst many other gems. When I watch something like this I feel a mixture of old, but young again. I like to look at the audiences and guess which of them would be the same age as me. Razzmatazz had a slightly younger audience but many of them will still be middle aged now!
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06/03/23 - 12:14 #20
Ella Nut wrote: »
Caught the 1982 one recently. Toyah, Mari Wilson and Flock Of Seagulls man all being asked about their hair in a group by Pauline Black, if I was paying attention - programme recorded but never aired. Amongst many other gems. When I watch something like this I feel a mixture of old, but young again. I like to look at the audiences and guess which of them would be the same age as me. Razzmatazz had a slightly younger audience but many of them will still be middle aged now!
Correct. That extract (and the final performance screened in that edition, The Story of the Blues by Wah!) were taken from an unaired pilot show.
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06/03/23 - 12:54 #21
Love these shows, and while I've never been an Elbow fan, I have to say Guy has great taste in music. In particular I share his admiration of the late great Mark Hollis and Talk Talk.
Enjoyed seeing Fiction Factory performing Feels Like Heaven. The ultimate one hit wonder. I'd never seen that footage before.
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06/03/23 - 13:39 #22
andydenyer wrote: »
Correct. That extract (and the final performance screened in that edition, The Story of the Blues by Wah!) were taken from an unaired pilot show.
Yes, we've seen other footage from that show in the episode on 1982 in the previous series, where Timmy Mallett, who you note was also in the credits, visited Yazoo in the studio. I wonder where Bullet, for it was that, would have ended up, it comes across as if it was Granada's pitch for the slot on C4 that became home to The Tube, although given the artists and songs featured it looks like it was made at the end of the year when The Tube would have already started. So I dunno.
I do enjoy this series, especially how it spends just as much time on the links and other material from the shows as it does the performances, and it's great when they leave all the original credits on. I'm always delighted when they show clips from Razzmatazz, because they're always great fun. There was a period when it was on pretty much all year round, between November 1983 and August 1985 it was barely off the air - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razzmatazz_(British_TV_series) - so they must have absolutely hundreds of performances in the archives, and they're always really creatively staged and directed. I had the 1984 Christmas Razzmatazz on an old Betamax tape I inherited - I don't have it anymore - and it was brilliant, as good as the Christmas Pops. Mind you, they'd paused all the links out.
Of course, it is obligatory to ask why everything is stretched to widescreen, mind.
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06/03/23 - 13:52 #23
Steve Williams wrote: »
andydenyer wrote: »
Correct. That extract (and the final performance screened in that edition, The Story of the Blues by Wah!) were taken from an unaired pilot show.
Yes, we've seen other footage from that show in the episode on 1982 in the previous series, where Timmy Mallett, who you note was also in the credits, visited Yazoo in the studio. I wonder where Bullet, for it was that, would have ended up, it comes across as if it was Granada's pitch for the slot on C4 that became home to The Tube, although given the artists and songs featured it looks like it was made at the end of the year when The Tube would have already started. So I dunno.
I do enjoy this series, especially how it spends just as much time on the links and other material from the shows as it does the performances, and it's great when they leave all the original credits on. I'm always delighted when they show clips from Razzmatazz, because they're always great fun. There was a period when it was on pretty much all year round, between November 1983 and August 1985 it was barely off the air - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razzmatazz_(British_TV_series) - so they must have absolutely hundreds of performances in the archives, and they're always really creatively staged and directed. I had the 1984 Christmas Razzmatazz on an old Betamax tape I inherited - I don't have it anymore - and it was brilliant, as good as the Christmas Pops. Mind you, they'd paused all the links out.
Of course, it is obligatory to ask why everything is stretched to widescreen, mind.
Yes, I was watching one of the clips thinking "that camera work is a bit poor" as some of the presenters' heads were chopped off, but then realised it was more likely because they had zoomed it to make it fit the 16:9 ratio for the show as a whole (which is unnecessary really, given that all of the material being shown would have been shot in 4:3). At least with the TOTPs (and other "... at the BBC" type compilations) on BBC4 they are keeping them in their original aspect ratio.
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06/12/23 - 13:50 #24
There's a new Christmas special on Friday 22nd December
MUSIC: Guy Garvey: From the Vaults
On: Sky Arts (36)
Date: Friday 22nd December 2023 (starting in 16 days)
Time: 20:00 to 21:00 (1 hour long)Christmas Special.
In this special festive episode, Guy celebrates the songs and artists that lit up TV screens at Christmas across the 1970s and '80s.
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Excerpt taken from DigiGuide - the world's best TV guide available from http://www.getdigiguide.tv/?p=1&r=11409Copyright (c) GipsyMedia Limited.
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06/12/23 - 14:12 #25
renzz wrote: »
There's a new Christmas special on Friday 22nd December
MUSIC: Guy Garvey: From the Vaults
On: Sky Arts (36)
Date: Friday 22nd December 2023 (starting in 16 days)
Time: 20:00 to 21:00 (1 hour long)Christmas Special.
In this special festive episode, Guy celebrates the songs and artists that lit up TV screens at Christmas across the 1970s and '80s.
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Excerpt taken from DigiGuide - the world's best TV guide available from http://www.getdigiguide.tv/?p=1&r=11409Copyright (c) GipsyMedia Limited.
Cheers for the heads up,I do hope they make another series of From the Vaults
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29/08/24 - 12:44 #26
Brand new series 5 starts on Friday 6th September at 22:00. First episode is "Protest Songs"
MUSIC: Guy Garvey: From the Vaults
On: Sky Arts (36)
Date: Friday 6th September 2024 (starting in 8 days)
Time: 22:00 to 23:00 (1 hour long)Protest Songs. Series 5, episode 1.
The Elbow frontman introduces more music from the TV archives, beginning by reflecting on today's turbulent times with a look at era-defining protest songs.
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Episode 2 is "1983 revisited", episode 3 is "1985 revisited"
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