Top of the pos vs Old Grey whistle test

Where would we have been without them. Be nice to limit clips to band you have seen but whatafook :

Top Of The Pops 1971 April 29 Titles & Countdown - YouTube

Pans people....early porn.

Pan's People: Midnight Rider / Paul Davidson (TOTP, 22 January 1976) - YouTube

Saw this band at Harrow and Weald Footy club

Atomic Rooster - Devil's answer (TOTP) - YouTube

Old Grey Whistle Test Theme Tune - YouTube

Bring on Jimmy Saville someone


Ah....pub rock. Saw this band at Brunel Uni allnighter. Excellent night in a cold winter. Completely out of my tree with a couple of mates.
Brinsley Schwarz - Surrender To The Rhythm [OGWT] - YouTube

One drawback (for me anyway) of OGWT was their policy of bands/musicians only appearing if they had released an album. The programme missed, if not the zeitgeist from 1976 onwards, then certainly some great opportunities to be relevant to what was going on outside the world of multi-millionaire tax-exile knob-twiddlers that were whisperingly introduced.

Slim pickings elsewhere. Revolver with Peter Cook on Saturday nights. So It Goes with Tony Wilson...

These nostalgic I saw them live you tube threads are akin to sitting through someone's holiday slide show with commentary .

I'm off down the dentist to get a tooth pulled

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These nostalgic I saw them live you tube threads are akin to sitting through someone's holiday slide show with commentary .

I'm off down the dentist to get a tooth pulled

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I'd be inclined to agree but I was a bit pissed last night and thought it would be nice to inflict more suffering on TD members

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Hope the tooth pull job was a blast gummy.:)

Oh, I dunno. 'I saw them live' can be great, particularly if the band attained iconic status later but were actually shit when I saw them.


For example, self-styled Modfather, Daddy's boy and all round provincial knob-end, Paul Weller and his little 3-piece, The Jam.

Nico. Skanky smack head.

Ian Dury, the chanting shopping list.

Dr. Feelgood. Estate Agents go mad on blues.

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One drawback (for me anyway) of OGWT was their policy of bands/musicians only appearing if they had released an album. The programme missed, if not the zeitgeist from 1976 onwards, then certainly some great opportunities to be relevant to what was going on outside the world of multi-millionaire tax-exile knob-twiddlers that were whisperingly introduced.

Slim pickings elsewhere. Revolver with Peter Cook on Saturday nights. So It Goes with Tony Wilson...

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"Revolver" Remember it well. Mostly punk / new wave bands playing live on the show, and Cook taking the unremitting piss out of them and the audience. :rofl:

Thanks for the reminder.:)

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"Revolver" Remember it well. Mostly punk / new wave bands playing live on the show, and Cook taking the unremitting piss out of them and the audience.

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It was a fantastic format, and so refreshing for that time. If you recall, all the bands played live; in itself a rarity on TV at the time.

This is weird though - my clearest memory from Revolver was Suzi Quatro of all people. Suzi bloody Quatro - the leather dwarf. The thing was, she was obviously really enjoying herself or she was off her head - or both. She was doing Devilgate Drive but slurring like a good 'un.

It sounded like she was singing:

'Down in Dimbleby,
Down in Dimbleby,
Down in Dimbleby der-rive'

To this day, everytime I see Question Time I think of Suzi Quatro.


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For example, self-styled Modfather, Daddy's boy and all round provincial knob-end, Paul Weller and his little 3-piece, The Jam.

Nico. Skanky smack head.

Ian Dury, the chanting shopping list.

Dr. Feelgood. Estate Agents go mad on blues.

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I can get not liking the first two but Dury?? The man should have been made poet laureate! And Dr Feelgood were just all around fun.

I am or was more of a John Peel man myself.

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I am or was more of a John Peel man myself.

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Yes, I prefered John Peel too. Expecting him to be crucified a la Jimmy Saville sometime in the future. Well out of it where he is.

Don't remember Revolver at all ?? But then again , was always out on Saturday nights.

Ian Dury and the Blockheads- What a waste (Revolver) - YouTube

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I can get not liking the first two but Dury??

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I was having a swim in the Iconoclast River when I wrote that. Ditto Feelgood.
I'm just towelling myself off now.

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I am or was more of a John Peel man myself.

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His son, Tom Ravenscroft, is on 6Music these days. He has his father's somewhat laboured lugubriousness but without any real knowledge of what he's playing.

Good evening I'm from Essex..In case you couldn't tell.
My given name is Dickie.. I come from Billericay
..and I'm doing...very well.

Little Feat - Rock & Roll Doctor (HD) Live 1975 at Old Grey Whistle Test (1080p) - YouTube

Good old days




David Bowie - Queen Bitch (Old Grey Whistle Test, 1972) HQ - YouTube

OK a band I have seen live

Denis Live On Top Of The Pops - Blondie (official video) - YouTube

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Good evening I'm from Essex..In case you couldn't tell.
My given name is Dickie.. I come from Billericay
..and I'm doing...very well.

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Arsoles, bastards, fucking cnuts and pricks.

... and these girls were the warm-up act at a concert in London docklands around twelve years ago. This number went on for twenty minutes by which time nobody was left in their seat. As a live performance they made Blondie look like amateurs.

The Weather Girls - It's Raining Men. Top Of The Pops 1984 - YouTube

I'm not gonna youtube it.. but Paradise by the dashboard light.. Meatloaf on OGWT.
Classic.

^^ looks like they are miming there ........

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^^ looks like they are miming there ........

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Wouldn't surprise me, although I have'nt looked.
The BBC were shit at live music.
And after an industrial dispute almost no music on the BBC was recorded or performed live.. the unions couldn't descide who was responsible for that type of kit.
Amps, bass rigs etc.

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On TOTP quite possibly, and maybe the only way to prevent them improvising. They had sufficient variations of "It's raining men" to keep an audience dancing for twenty minutes, and wanting more.

Haven't seen this one live but you will know why I have posted it....

Marillion - Lavender Blue - Top of the Pops 1985 - YouTube

Classic clip from Aus' version of TOTP "Countdown". Iggy Pop, narco-edgy and totally off his tits, not really answering the interviewers questions and saying "G'day" in a really crap Aussie accent. :smileylaughing:. Before terrifying the audience, miming to "I'm Bored". Classic.
Iggy Pop interview and performing "I'm Bored" on countdown. - YouTube

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^^The Ig really should keep his shirt on these days. Ugh.