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    zippykona
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    I really can not fathom why there are no music programmes on normal telly.

    The Tube was just the best thing to happen on a Friday evening. Channel 4 should be rerunning the whole series rather than **** go dating.

    Anyway here’s my favourite.

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    kimbers
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    I dunno but Sepultura on The Word, was my young metalhead dream come true

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    kimbers
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    Or this

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    johndoh
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    It absolutely has to be Frankie with Relax with everyone in bondage gear before anyone realised that it was a gay anthem and it was watered down then banned by Mike Reid and Radio 1.

    https://youtu.be/yIV2i8nnBCc?si=qbbOqA708YIsV7ql

    An old friend’s dad designed the original ’The Tube’ logo.

    sillysilly
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    burntembers
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    MadBillMcMad
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    Had an awesome night there seeing Dwane Eddy and the Art of Noise doing Peter Gunn I think.

    ernielynch
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    slowoldman
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    Hmm, I think some people are missing the meaning of “The Tube”. it was an utterly anarchic and brilliant show which set the tone for other shows to follow. I had a deep desire for Muriel Gray which only deepened when I discovered she was a Munroist. Then there was Paula!!!! Oh and music.

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    FunkyDunc
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    The Tube as in from the olden days or The Tube in the interweb ?

    johndoh
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    I think some people are missing the meaning of “The Tube”. it was an utterly anarchic and brilliant show which set the tone for other shows to follow

    Don’t you mean Tiswas?

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    slowoldman
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    The Tube as in from the olden days or The Tube in the interweb ?

    As the OP said

    ” The Tube was just the best thing to happen on a Friday evening. Channel 4 should be rerunning the whole series rather than **** go dating”.

    So quite clear to me.

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    breatheeasy
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    I went to one episode – Play Dead and Lee Scratch Perry if I remember correctly. Good fun. Happy days, albeit 40 years ago!!!

    olddonald
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    I went every week 1984-5 with 2 mates all first years Newcastle University – first episode Billy Bragg playing to the queue outside – saw lots – was ace. Then drank our way back to the student union via the quayside pubs and the city centre.

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    zippykona
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    Christ , I feel old if there are people on here who have never seen The Tube.

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    hightensionline
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    I really can not fathom why there are no music programmes on normal telly.

    The irony is that YouTube killed it.

    tthew
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    The one that sticks in my mind was watching the Word with my insomniac Grandma after the pub when that lass from L7 took her pants off. 🙂

    midlifecrashes
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    Best memory is one I was in the room for, it was Undertones, Big Country and U2, so not a bad lineup.

    After the recording we bundled 6 up in my mates Austin Maxi to race U2 down to Leeds Uni for their main gig of the night.

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    midlifecrashes
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    As for best performance, I reckon this is the best version of Born to Run I’ve seen.

    ernielynch
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    Hmm, I think some people are missing the meaning of “The Tube”.

    Me! I misread and thought it was in reference to live YouTube favourites.

    Cougar
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    The one that sticks in my mind was watching the Word with my insomniac Grandma after the pub when that lass from L7 took her pants off. 🙂

    Came here to say this.  Aside from the grannie bit.

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    slowoldman
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    As for best performance, I reckon this is the best version of Born to Run I’ve seen.

    It is brilliant, as indeed is the entire album it is from. “I’m sorry I’ve me cards at ‘ome”.

    As an aside, “Frankie” was the first digital recording I ever heard – on VHS via a Sony PCM before CDs were released.

    Rubber_Buccaneer
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    Was it The Word where Jules went around opening dressing room doors introducing the night’s bands only to get a full frontal naked Stiv Bators?

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    asbrooks
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    bearGrease
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    The Tube was just the best thing to happen on a Friday evening.

    Amen @zippykona

    asbrooks
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    Used to be my favourite music show, it was a bit ad hoc which added to the DIY feel of it IMO.

    It showed bands that wouldn’t get played anywhere else, many of which I went to see live having seen them on the tube.

    oldmanmtb2
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    Way too much to list.

    desperatebicycle
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    Anyone remember Foffo Spearjig. “FELT NOWT” so funny.

    Great thing about the Tube was how it brought the weird and wonderful to our screens, not seen anywhere else. Like Foetus did a set on there! I mean, who else would book Foetus for a live TV show ??? I was out of my mind! I wonder if it’s on YT…

    oh man

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    the-muffin-man
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    I really can not fathom why there are no music programmes on normal telly.

    Because you wouldn’t be allowed to make TV like that in this day and age.

    The Tube, The Word, Sounds, Kerrang, NME – I’m so glad my teenage years were in that era.

    johnx2
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    Christ , I feel old

    Hmmm. What possible explanation could there be for this? [Have smileys stopped working? ?? Could we do the hitman and her next? ]

    desperatebicycle
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    Was it The Word where Jules went around opening dressing room doors

    Nope – Terry Christian presented The Word. Jules was The Tube, or later, Later 🙂

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    bearGrease
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    Cougar
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    Hmmm. What possible explanation could there be for this? ?

    Harsh. (-:

    Cougar
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    Incidentally.  I had to google the show title but,

    Anyone else remember Network 7?

    desperatebicycle
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    Channel 4’s late night experimental TV wasn’t it? If anyone else saw a sketch called At Home With Depeche Mode on Network 7, please let me know!!

    comet
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    I was talking to my sister just yesterday about how great Echo and the Bunnymen were live, so it has to be this:
    The Bunnymen Crystal Day special https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj49UtA3t6o
    I’m pleased to say its an “I was there” moment for me. A great day out, great concert and a good chat with Jools Holland about his Hesketh.

    Cougar
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    Channel 4’s late night experimental TV wasn’t it?

    I had it in my head that it was Sunday mornings but you could be right.

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    slowoldman
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    Just remembered –

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    Plus audience reaction at the rehearsal.

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    slowoldman
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    Ah I fell into the trap. The Risk Mayall stuff was intended for the music from Youtube thread. Damn you beer.

    burntembers
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    90’s doc about the Tube

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