Kev Hunter
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Post by Kev Hunter on Apr 20, 2014 21:49:33 GMT
Reading the thread about video transfers prompted me to go through some old VHS 180s of music clips I recorded in the 1980s (mostly stuff from The Tube, etc) and I found a complete programme that I'd forgotten about, namely "The Roxy". This particular show was broadcast circa May 1987 and includes performances from Erasure, Broken English, Alison Moyet and Curiosity Killed The Cat. Anyone remember this series?
I also have a pile of tapes from the early 1990s, and it made me realise that we were fairly spoiled for music shows at the time (even though I didn't appreciate it until later).. I'm recalling Rapido, The Beat, Raw Soup, The Word (not a music show per se but the bands' performances were always worth seeing) and maybe a lot of this period will survive thanks to home recordings being so prevalent at that time.
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Post by tonyrees on Apr 21, 2014 9:58:11 GMT
This is the first edition of The Roxy, broadcast 9th June 1987
Erasure - Victim of Love
Alison Moyet - Ordinary Girl
Heartbeat UK - greeting
Broken English - Comin' On Strong
Pepsi & Shirley - Goodbye Stranger
Tom Jones - It's Not Unusual (TV clip from sixties)
Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody (promo)
Curiosity Killed The Cat - Misfit
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2014 10:41:06 GMT
I'm recalling Rapido, The Beat, Raw Soup, The Word (not a music show per se but the bands' performances were always worth seeing) and maybe a lot of this period will survive thanks to home recordings being so prevalent at that time. Yes, I often wonder if some of those shows are all archived properly (particularly the regional and late night ones). I believe Raw Soup was regional as I only saw it when I was visiting Yorkshire and not in the London area. Lots of music shows back then and there was also Riverside plus Oxford Roadshow etc. Few of those shows are dipped into that much for clips / compilations (if at all). Other programmes also had a music element to them - such as Night Network and It's Bizarre - where acts performed in the studio. A whole cache of forgotten music culture to explore there. |
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Post by Kev Hunter on Apr 21, 2014 13:25:48 GMT
Thanks for filling in the broadcast date, Tony; incidentally there's also a brief interview with Elkie Brooks during that show and I've got the complete ad break (Amplex, Tracker, KFC and Coke) intact.
And Laurence, I lived in Harlow, Essex during the period that Raw Soup was broadcast, and I caught it on our Carlton ITV region - it was always shown at some unearthly hour, much as The Beat was. Why do / did music shows always get dumped in a late night & early morning slot?
I regret not recording whole shows but I usually just went for appearances by artists I was into at the time.
(Somewhat off-topic to mention this but there's a classic Raw Soup interview where Rhona Cameron tries unsuccessfully to get Evan Dando of the Lemonheads to be more co-operative.)
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Post by christian bews on Apr 21, 2014 14:43:19 GMT
the name 'the roxy' does haunt me a wee bit,that was in 1987 ITV's most serious rival to 'top of the pops'. ITV in TOTP's 42 year life span (1964-2006) tried a number of shows as mentioned in this forum to take on the UK's longest-running music shows but non of them did not last long & had the same fan base & popularity. it was made by tyne tees tv NOT Granada tv & the Newcastle-based ITV company developed it to replace channel 4's 'the tube' & the children's pop show 'razzamatazz' & hosted by david 'kid' Jensen(a former TOTP presenter who was in my view the king of the ITV rival & hosted Granada's '45') & a unknown young Irishman named kevin sharkey who was the show's longest-serving presenter. shown in a early-evening slot on Tuesday nights at the same time as TOTP two days later on Thursday,it focused on the network chart show which david Jensen hosted on all ILR stations on sunday teatime. it was criticised by pop journalists,tv critics & those who were performing on the show just to leave London & travel to Newcastle to perform their hit single for just 3 minutes then back to London which was too much for them,but had to show videos instead to save time & money & it got worse when it was revamped in 1988 as 'roxy:the network chart show' when they tried a number of presenters to replace david Jensen as kevin sharkey's co-host then settled for pat sharp & was axed a month later when thames & TVS moved the show from 7pm to 12.30 late at night after poor ratings in their regions,when I first read that at the time I knew the axe would fall on it & they did after 42 shows in april 1988. it wasn't that good but I think it was a miss whith all the ITV companies too.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2014 16:41:24 GMT
And Laurence, I lived in Harlow, Essex during the period that Raw Soup was broadcast, and I caught it on our Carlton ITV region - it was always shown at some unearthly hour, much as The Beat was. Why do / did music shows always get dumped in a late night & early morning slot? I regret not recording whole shows but I usually just went for appearances by artists I was into at the time. Was it? Must have missed it due to the late slot then. I think I recorded one whole show at the time, as an example. After the days of The Tube, most music shows have tended to get shunted into awful slots, regarded as minority interest stuff. The only real exception in recent years being some of the annual Glastonbury coverage. |
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Post by Richard Marple on Apr 21, 2014 22:04:54 GMT
Even though it didn't have any studio performances the ITV Chart Show was often worth a watch.
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Post by Tony Walshaw on May 1, 2014 6:47:37 GMT
Yes, I thought the ITV Chart Show was good at the time. But as with other shows above, I only remember it in a very late night slot. I used to see it after a night out or late shift.
If Tyne Tees had a speciality contribution to the network, then it was pop shows. But I can imagine that for established artists, it was a drag to travel to Newcastle when they could do the same 3 mins for TOTP in London. 'The Tube' was an exception to this, it wasn't "just another pop show", and artists could do a whole set.
'The Roxy' if I recall, abandoned the studio audience-feel of TOTP, and tried to create a nightclub atmosphere - this included couples 'snogging' etc. The press were critical of it from the start. By the late 80s, music was in a slump anyway.
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