Category: Vintage Video

Vintage Video: ‘Dance Craze: The Best of British Ska… Live!’ celebrates the 2-Tone era

Vintage Video: ‘Dance Craze: The Best of British Ska… Live!’ celebrates the 2-Tone era

For this latest installment of our Vintage Video series, we honor the life and music of The Beat’s Ranking Roger — who died Monday — with the single best document of the 2 Tone era, the criminally out-of-print concert film “Dance Craze: The Best of British Ska… Live!” Watch the whole film right here.

The Mighty Lemon Drops unearth lost footage of 1988 show at Chicago's Cabaret Metro

The Mighty Lemon Drops unearth lost footage of 1988 show at Chicago’s Cabaret Metro

Thirty years after touring the U.S. in support of World Without End, guitarist/songwriter David Newton of The Mighty Lemon Drops received a VHS tape in the mail. On it: professionally recorded footage from the band’s gig at at Chicago’s Cabaret Metro in May 1988. Check it out right here.

Vintage Video: Julian Cope thrills in hour-long 'MTV Saturday Night Concert' set from 1987

Vintage Video: Julian Cope thrills in hour-long ‘MTV Saturday Night Concert’ set from 1987

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we present this MTV-broadcast concert by former Teardrop Explodes frontman Julian Cope, filmed at The Ritz in New York City on July 6, 1987, and featured during the network’s “Saturday Night Concert” series. Watch the hour-long set right here.

Vintage Video: Love and Rockets' amazing low-budget TV commercial for 'Express'

Vintage Video: Love and Rockets’ amazing low-budget TV commercial for ‘Express’

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we offer up this delightfully low-budget television commercial promoting Love and Rockets’ 1986 album Express — the existence of which is fairly surprising, considering it would be three years before the band’s real commercial breakthrough in the U.S. with “So Alive.”

Vintage Video: 10,000 Maniacs open a Grateful Dead stadium show on July 4, 1989

Vintage Video: 10,000 Maniacs open a Grateful Dead stadium show on July 4, 1989

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we present this hour-long, broadcast-quality footage of 10,000 Maniacs opening for the Grateful Dead at the Buffalo Bills’ stadium on July 4, 1989. The show comes a few months after the release of the band’s fourth album, Blind Man’s Zoo.

Vintage Video: New Order blasts through hour-long 'Low-Life'-era set in Belgium

Vintage Video: New Order blasts through hour-long ‘Low-Life’-era set in Belgium

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we offer up this fantastic hour-long set by New Order that was filmed at a Belgian club in late 1985 for TV broadcast — and it’s been synced up with audio remastered by The Analog Loyalist (who you may remember for coming up with this New Order treasure).

Vintage Video: The Church shines in rare early pro-shot concert footage from 1982

Vintage Video: The Church shines in rare early pro-shot concert footage from 1982

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we present some very rare, very high-quality early concert footage of The Church — 50-plus minutes of the band performing at what’s believed to be Hodern Pavilion in its hometown of Sydney, Australia, in 1982. Watch the full set right here.