Category: Vintage Video

Vintage Video: Morrissey soundchecks, hangs out during ‘Kill Uncle’ tour in 1991

Vintage Video: Morrissey soundchecks, hangs out during ‘Kill Uncle’ tour in 1991

As we wait for the delayed announcement of Morrissey’s U.S. tour this fall, here’s a little something to bide the time: eight minutes of rare footage from 1991′s ‘Kill Uncle’ tour, showing Moz milling about the Pacific Amphitheatre in Costa Mesa, Calif., and joining his band onstage to soundcheck ‘Sing Your Life.’

Vintage Video: A young Trent Reznor covers Billy Idol’s ‘Eyes Without a Face’

Vintage Video: A young Trent Reznor covers Billy Idol’s ‘Eyes Without a Face’

This has been online for a couple years now, but it didn’t come to our attention until this week: It’s a clip of future Oscar winner Trent Reznor in one of his mid-’80s, pre-Nine Inch Nails bands performing a fairly faithful cover of the Billy Idol hit ‘Eyes Without a Face.’

Vintage Video: Full R.E.M. concert from 1985’s ‘Fables’ tour filmed for ‘Rockpalast’

Vintage Video: Full R.E.M. concert from 1985’s ‘Fables’ tour filmed for ‘Rockpalast’

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we bring you this pristine, 95-minute R.E.M. concert filmed on the ‘Fables of the Reconstruction’ tour on Oct. 2, 1985, for the German TV show ‘Rockpalast.’

Vintage Video: The Cure plays BBC ‘Rock Around the Clock’ concert in 1984

Vintage Video: The Cure plays BBC ‘Rock Around the Clock’ concert in 1984

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we check in with The Cure at the Barrowland Ballroom in Glasgow, Scotland, on Aug. 25, 1984, for an hour-long concert that was produced by the BBC as “Rock Around the Clock ’84.” Watch the entire show except for the never-broadcast closer, “Forever.”

Vintage Video: Watch The Replacements open for Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers in 1989

Vintage Video: Watch The Replacements open for Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers in 1989

For our latest installment of Vintage Video, here’s the full 40-minute set of The Replacements opening for Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers at the Orange County Speedway in Middletown, NY, on Aug. 18, 1989.

Vintage Video: Depeche Mode and The Cure in the studio via 1987 French TV report

Vintage Video: Depeche Mode and The Cure in the studio via 1987 French TV report

This French TV report from sometime in 1987 features footage and interviews with both The Cure and Depeche Mode in the studio, as they work on their breakout albums ‘Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me’ and ‘Music For the Masses,’ respectively.

Vintage Video: Watch Midnight Oil’s complete ‘Oils on the Water’ concert from 1985

Vintage Video: Watch Midnight Oil’s complete ‘Oils on the Water’ concert from 1985

For our latest installment of Vintage Video, we bring you a complete mid-’80s concert by Aussie powerhouse Midnight Oil — the landmark ‘Oils on the Water’ concert staged Jan. 13, 1985, on Sydney’s Goat Island as part of Australian radio station Triple J’s 10th anniversary.

Vintage Video: The Smiths’ third-ever concert, 28 years ago today at The Hacienda

Vintage Video: The Smiths’ third-ever concert, 28 years ago today at The Hacienda

Exactly 28 years ago today, The Smiths took the stage for only their third concert — and only their second with the final Morrissey/Johnny Marr/Andy Rourke/Mike Joyce lineup — opening for Factory Records funk band 52nd Street at New Order’s infamous Manchester club The Hacienda.

Vintage Video: Bob Mould, Peter Buck cover Neil Young’s ‘Cinnamon Girl’ in 1990

Vintage Video: Bob Mould, Peter Buck cover Neil Young’s ‘Cinnamon Girl’ in 1990

Peter Buck is no stranger to jumping on stage for a good jam, so when former Hüsker Dü frontman Bob Mould swung through Athens, Ga., on July 25, 1990, in support of ‘Black Sheets of Rain,’ the R.E.M. guitarist pitched in on a crunchy cover of Neil Young’s classic-rock staple ‘Cinnamon Girl.’

Vintage Video: Echo & The Bunnymen and Billy Bragg cover ‘Run Run Run’ on U.K. TV in 1985

Vintage Video: Echo & The Bunnymen and Billy Bragg cover ‘Run Run Run’ on U.K. TV in 1985

For the past day or so, Echo & The Bunnymen’s web folk have been uploading a stream of videos to the band’s YouTube channel, including this 1985 TV appearance that finds the band joined by Billy Bragg to play The Velvet Underground’s ‘Run Run Run.’

Vintage Video: U2 performs ‘New Year’s Day’ in the studio for French TV documentary

Vintage Video: U2 performs ‘New Year’s Day’ in the studio for French TV documentary

Haven’t run across this one before: It’s a promo clip of U2 performing along to what sounds like the album version of ‘New Year’s Day’ in a recording studio, circa 1983. Apparently it was included in a French TV documentary on the band.

Vintage Video: Elvis Costello plays ‘Radio Radio’ on ‘Saturday Night Live’ in 1977

Vintage Video: Elvis Costello plays ‘Radio Radio’ on ‘Saturday Night Live’ in 1977

Thirty-three years ago tonight, Elvis Costello & The Attractions staged one of the more infamous stunts in ‘Saturday Night Live’ history, pulling the plug on their label-approved song ‘Less Than Zero’ less than 10 seconds in and instead ripping through ‘Radio Radio.’

Vintage Video: Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore in ‘Rock the Vote’ promo from 1992

Vintage Video: Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore in ‘Rock the Vote’ promo from 1992

Since it’s Election Day here in the U.S., check out this 30-second PSA that Sonic Youth did for Rock the Vote during the 1992 presidential election. As Thurston Moore says, ‘Don’t keep freedom for granted. Vote to keep it strong.’