Breaking up the run of slightly longer posts these past few days…..
This isn’t a rare or unknown clip as it’s all over YouTube as well as being a staple of whenever BBC TV puts together programmes looking back at the music of the punk/post-punk/new wave era.
The Old Grey Whistle Test was a music show broadcast on BBC2 between 1971 and 1988, albeit its name was shortened to Whistle Test from 1983 onwards. It was most often a mix of live performances, interviews, features and promo videos (which in the early years were often just the song over old film archive, often of long-lost cartoons put together by staff at the BBC). The live performances were always the highlight……
31 January 1978. The band had earlier opened the show with Don’t Worry About The Government, which was most likely the way most UK music lovers came to be introduced to Talking Heads.
mp3 : Talking Heads – Pyscho Killer (live)
From the Stop Making Sense soundtrack, released in 1984 and still up there as the most jaw-dropping opening to any concert film.
THE NEW VINYL VILLAIN 