Category: Vintage Video

Vintage Video: 40 minutes of footage from David Bowie and Nine Inch Nails’ 1995 tour

Vintage Video: 40 minutes of footage from David Bowie and Nine Inch Nails’ 1995 tour

Back in August, we posted four high-quality video clips that had just surfaced from the 1995 co-headlining tour by David Bowie and Nine Inch Nails — and today we’ve learned that the filmmaker who put those fantastic clips together has uploaded a 40-minute rough cut of additional footage.

Vintage Video: Morrissey appears on the BBC’s ‘Pop Quiz’ game show on May 26, 1984

Vintage Video: Morrissey appears on the BBC’s ‘Pop Quiz’ game show on May 26, 1984

On May 26, 1984 — just three months after the release of ‘The Smiths’ — a young and occasionally smiling Morrissey appeared on the BBC TV game show ‘Pop Quiz,’ which pitted two teams of musicians against each other in a battle of musical knowledge hosted by a ridiculously attired DJ named Mike Read.

Vintage Video: Red Hot Chili Peppers make ’84 TV debut with ‘True Men Don’t Kill Coyotes’

Vintage Video: Red Hot Chili Peppers make ’84 TV debut with ‘True Men Don’t Kill Coyotes’

For our latest installment of Vintage Video, we flash back to March 1984 to see the Red Hot Chili Peppers — long before they became sensitive alt-rock balladeers — make their television debut on the ‘Thicke of the Night’ talk show’s one and only season.

Vintage Video: ‘XTC at the Manor,’ 1980 BBC doc about recording ‘Towers of London’

On Aug. 24, 1980, the members of XTC set up at Richard Branson’s Manor Studio to record another version of ‘Towers of London,’ a track destined to be the second single off the band’s just-completed, but not-yet-released album ‘Black Sea’— a weekend session captured for posterity in the hour-long documentary ‘XTC at the Manor.’

Vintage Video: David Bowie and Trent Reznor perform Nine Inch Nails’ ‘Hurt’ in 1995

Vintage Video: David Bowie and Trent Reznor perform Nine Inch Nails’ ‘Hurt’ in 1995

Superb pro-shot video has emerged for the first time of the 1995 joint David Bowie/Nine Inch Nails tour. Watch Bowie and NIN perform ‘Hurt’ and ‘Hallo Spaceboy’ together, and ‘The Heart’s Filthy Lesson’ and ‘Wish’ apart.

Vintage Video: The Cure on ‘That Was Then… This Is Now,’ 1988 BBC2 documentary

Vintage Video: The Cure on ‘That Was Then… This Is Now,’ 1988 BBC2 documentary

Twenty-two years ago, Robert Smith sat for a half-hour BBC2 documentary about The Cure that aired Aug. 8, 1988, as one of 10 installments of the series ‘That Was Then… This Is Now.’

Vintage Video: Simple Minds’ ‘Waterfront’ from 1990’s ‘Verona’ concert film

Vintage Video: Simple Minds’ ‘Waterfront’ from 1990’s ‘Verona’ concert film

Given that today is Jim Kerr’s 51st birthday, we dedicate this installment of Vintage Video to the Simple Minds frontman. Here’s a performance of one of the band’s most rousing anthems, ‘Waterfront,’ filmed Sept. 15, 1989, at L’Arena in Verona, Italy, during the band’s ‘Street Fighting Years’ tour.

Vintage Video: Dinosaur Jr pro-shot rehearsal footage filmed at U Mass in 1986

Vintage Video: Dinosaur Jr pro-shot rehearsal footage filmed at U Mass in 1986

For our latest Vintage Video installment, we present this pro-shot footage of Dinosaur Jr’s original lineup — J Mascis, Lou Barlow and Murph — rehearsing at the University of Massachusetts in 1986.

Vintage Video: New Order re-writes ‘Blue Monday’ for Sunkist soda TV commercial

Vintage Video: New Order re-writes ‘Blue Monday’ for Sunkist soda TV commercial

For $200,000, New Order re-recorded ‘Blue Monday’ — allegedly the best-selling 12-inch of all time — for a Sunkist TV commercial (which also uses footage from the band’s Kathryn Bigelow-directed video for ‘Touched By the Hand of God’).

Vintage Video: Ministry’s Al Jourgensen, Gary Numan sing early-’80s soda pop jingles

Could it be? Is that Ministry’s Al Jourgensen singing ‘don’t give me that so-so soda/that same old cola’ in this 1983 commercial for Shasta? And here’s a purported 1982 7UP jingle sung by Gary Numan, too.

Vintage Video: Michael Stipe as Frank-N-Furter in ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ news footage

In this late-’70s news footage from a Kansas City TV station, R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe is among the fans interviewed about the ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ phenomenon — in full Frank-N-Furter regalia.

Vintage Video: Depeche Mode performs ‘Behind the Wheel’/’Route 66’ in 1990

In honor of Dave Gahan’s birthday today — he’s 48 — we present this clip: Depeche Mode performing its combo of ‘Behind the Wheel’ and B-side ‘Route 66’ during a World Violation Tour stop in Frankfurt, Germany, in October 1990.

Vintage Video: Watch ‘The Cure in Orange’ to celebrate Robert Smith’s 51st birthday

Vintage Video: Watch ‘The Cure in Orange’ to celebrate Robert Smith’s 51st birthday

The Cure’s Robert Smith turns 51 today, and to mark the occasion, we’ve assembled this playlist of the band’s long-out-of-print 1987 concert film ‘The Cure in Orange,’ which is finally due for a belated DVD release later this year.