Category: Videotones
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RIP Gershon Kingsley
I missed the sad news about the death of Gershon Kingsley in the midst of my Xmas Panic™. 97 though, he had good innings, but with him and Perrey gone, it’s a whole era that has passed. Kingsley is most famous for Popcorn, the track that not-arguably-at-all kickstarted the whole synth boom – first it…
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New Videotones – Kleptones – Black Medicine
The Videotones project isn’t dead, it’s sleeping to paraphrase that classic Blair/Cassetteboy cutup. Here’s Marcus Round‘s take on Black Medicine, and might fine it is too. Fits right in with the theme and mood of the existing Videotones videos, which if you’ve not seen are well worth checking out. Apologies for the delay, I wasn’t…
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Kleptones – coming to a festival near you!
Well I’m not aware of any future bookings as yet, but after seeing this promo video I’m pretty sure they will get booked in at a few this summer or next – or should be 😉 You might also recognise some of The Videotones videos creeping in, which are part of the live set including…
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Merry Christmas – have a new Videotones in your stocking
Hope you have merry festerings and a happy ewe year, and here is Pete Butch Auntie’s video for the Videotones project taking Kleptones Destiny & Tenacity adding big and little cats and asking ‘Do they really have nine lives – or do they simply never give up?’. Love the falling cats, the cats singing Hives…
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Videotones unholy trinity: 3 more Kleptones videos
The Videotones project is coming on leaps and bounds, 13 videos so far – here’s three (count ’em!) more Videotones videos, 2 more from the Downtime and one from Uptime. Firstly here’s Brad Mackey with his take on Interlude, the introductory track on Downtime. How much like God is a man? (from Britannia Hospital, also…