…these two videos have to be the most (un?)intentionally funny live performances they ever did, in a history of idiosyncratic live performances (remember this is the band that insisted on going onto Top of the Pops to perform the biggest selling 12″ of all time, live, and played so badly and out of tune that the track then did another first – it went DOWN the charts after a TV appearance!).
Talking of that infamous track – Blue Monday – this seems to be a live Radio 1 telethon from the mid 80’s where Barney seems to be having a few problems…(contains swearing and gratuitous shorts)
And of a similar (lack of) quality is this telling clip of a lonely Hooky on Other Side of Midnight (hey I used to watch that!) who looks rather like the rest of the band have run off and left him to it all alone and embarassed: (contains Tony Wilson and Paul Morley reference)
I just love the bemused slow clap at the end, and the frantic shots of the director trying to make a Mac and a few racks of gear interesting…
Ahh the heady heady days of the 1980’s…
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