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‘Show Me Your Soul’: Amazing ‘Soul Train’ documentary from French television

Show Me Your Soul: The Soul Train Years is a 2013 documentary produced for French television by filmmaker Pascal Forneri (who also directed the critically-acclaimed…

Doug Jones
Mar 21, 2017

The Melvins mind-melting first ever television appearance from 1995

An early shot of Washington State fuzz kings, Melvins. Sound FX was a short-lived show on the FX Network back in the mid-90s. Its greatest…

Cherrybomb
Feb 14, 2017

Killing Joke, Nick Cave, The Damned & Billy Idol lip-synching for their lives on 80s television

Jaz Coleman of Killing Joke looking a bit confused about how the band ended up on German music television program ‘Musik Convoy.’ As a frequent…

Cherrybomb
Nov 16, 2016

TV taboos: Things you can’t do on television, 1949 edition

I don’t know who wrote and photographed this guide to “Television Taboos” but it seems to have appeared in 1949, just as the new household…

Martin Schneider
Jun 8, 2016

Watch Pink Floyd make an early appearance on American television, 1967

By 1967 Pink Floyd was a significant presence on the UK rock scene. In the autumn of that year the group made its first trip…

Martin Schneider
Apr 7, 2016

Intimate Catherine Wheel performance on Italian television, 1998

Catherine Wheel circa 1992 Here’s a pretty rare glimpse at an intimate performance from 1998 by the Catherine Wheel on TMC2 or Telemontecarlo, a now…

Cherrybomb
Aug 20, 2015

Eric Idle’s brilliant, nearly forgotten comedy classic ‘Rutland Weekend Television’

“Saddlebags, saddlebags,” was an utterance that could be heard around my local school yard during the mid-1970s. We used it to signify someone talking absolute…

Paul Gallagher
Jan 19, 2015

Marquee Buffoon: Japanese fashion line features iconic images of Tom Verlaine and Television

I have issues with the latest line of punk-inspired clothing by designer Jun Takahashi and his label, UNDERCOVER. Many of the pieces in Takahashi’s Spring/Summer…

Cherrybomb
Oct 29, 2014

Ill ‘Legit’: An extremely personal appreciation of one of television’s most unusual comedies

This is a guest post from Hal Martin, which is not his real name. Legit returns for its second series this evening on the FXX…

Richard Metzger
Feb 26, 2014

TV Eye: The Residents speak (well, sort of) in vintage ‘interview’ from New Zealand television

The Residents, if you didn’t know, are a long running cross-media band who are pretty much the yardstick by which high quality avant-pop weirdness is…

Ron Kretsch
Jan 16, 2014

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