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Post by mjhopkins on Sept 3, 2020 19:47:08 GMT
Beat Club's YouTube channel is very active at the moment, with performances uploaded almost every day. If you aren't fortunate enough to have the comprehensive dvd box sets, this is a great opportunity to see some of what you've been missing:
Beat Club must surely be one (if not the) the most important pop/rock archive in existence! The sheer range of artists is breathtaking- and all preserved on either pristine monochrome or colour videotape. With the UK music archive situation for the 1966-72 period patchy at best, we can only look up from our pile of tatty old telerecordings and VT fragments in awe. BC seem to have kept rehearsals and multiple performance takes- was the comparative price of videotape less in Germany or was WDR less cash-strapped than the BBC? It's lucky that the show was happy to feature so many UK acts- I mean where else would you see The Mirror or The World of Oz for goodness' sake? (I'm surprised that Kaleidoscope/Fairfield Parlour didn't appear though, maybe for Jenny Artichoke or Bordeaux Rose?)
I'd love to read a definitive history of Beat Club - if there was one in English! The retina-searing colour special effects would be worth a chapter on their own...
Does anyone have a favourite Beat Club performance?
Steve
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Post by Roger Houdaille on Sept 8, 2020 21:42:43 GMT
Beat Club's YouTube channel is very active at the moment, with performances uploaded almost every day. If you aren't fortunate enough to have the comprehensive dvd box sets, this is a great opportunity to see some of what you've been missing:
Beat Club must surely be one (if not the) the most important pop/rock archive in existence! The sheer range of artists is breathtaking- and all preserved on either pristine monochrome or colour videotape. With the UK music archive situation for the 1966-72 period patchy at best, we can only look up from our pile of tatty old telerecordings and VT fragments in awe. BC seem to have kept rehearsals and multiple performance takes- was the comparative price of videotape less in Germany or was WDR less cash-strapped than the BBC? It's lucky that the show was happy to feature so many UK acts- I mean where else would you see The Mirror or The World of Oz for goodness' sake? (I'm surprised that Kaleidoscope/Fairfield Parlour didn't appear though, maybe for Jenny Artichoke or Bordeaux Rose?)
I'd love to read a definitive history of Beat Club - if there was one in English! The retina-searing colour special effects would be worth a chapter on their own... Does anyone have a favourite Beat Club performance?
Steve
Did you not know that "Sunny side circus" by Fairfield Parlour was recently unearthed by Beat Club and a clip of it was posted on Peter Daltrey's Facebook page? If you can follow this link, here it is.. m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3439455489419791&id=100000661204552&sfnsn=mo&extid=5nFB6vI5dYC5lDdT&d=n&vh=iI'm working on a release of this material alongside the French TV footage. Only bits of Kaleidoscope/Fairfield Parlour known to still exist. Look out for it around March 2021 if all goes well. In the meantime, if anyone knows the whereabouts of the promo film shot for 'A Dream For Julie' please let me know!
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