I’ve only seen this Alan Parsons Project video recently. It’s from 1977 and shows Mr Parsons running around a still new-looking National Theatre. For good measure there’s also a Univac Computer. Old computers and London’s South Bank: What’s not to love? Could any other AfterWorders suggest Old Music Videos Shot In Interesting Places.
Old Music Videos Shot In Interesting Places
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David Essex walking around a vanished Soho, London circa 1976
Phil Lynott walking around the Dublin I remember as a kid (with a brief interior shot from Liberty Hall)
https://youtu.be/d2OcIqwmSaY
I just put this on another thread. Howard is not the interesting bit, it’s the people milling around – the haircuts, the clothes.
Excellent. In a similar vein, Macca’s Press:
This video still gives me goosebumps. It was 4 years before I started working at the G-MEX Centre and it sums up how magical large concerts could be when the audience gets behind the band.
28 years later and the venue is now called Manchester Central. More famous for its Party Political Conferences and Ninja Warrior UK.
Man, the audience are something in that clip. It’s nice to see past venues in these clips. Here’s Bowie in the old Point Depot in Dublin, which was demolished (except for the facades) and rebuilt as the 3Arena. I’m on the balcony somewhere.
The “on stage” bits were filmed at The Music Machine, Camden. I was on top of a scaffold tower operating the 16mm projector. A miserable day.
https://youtu.be/kia8_rnuKrs
This is certainly old, and Paris is never less than interesting. It’s the first music video I remember seeing – a coffee bar at the bottom of Southend High Street installed a Scopitone jukebox and exposed a mob of 14-year-olds to the wonder of Françoise Hardy, then a mere four years older, but a pretty important four years. We used to go there just to see this, waiting with bated breath for what we interpreted as the come-hither look at the end. Sigh…
https://youtu.be/_V-b8QIYOpM
That’s a perfect example of this kind of thing. Still a great clip, but now with time it also captures something totally lost. There’s a lot to take in: those skirts in the breeze, her final look direct into the camera…
I quite like this video for “Ullo John,Got A New Motor” by Alexei Sayle.
The Bass red triangles outside the pub at the start,the fashions in the bus queue,the old style London bus.
Filmed 1984 ish.
That has reminded me of this Madness video which ends up on Upper Street, Islington (the Angel tube station end).
Portmeirion
Paul Weller wanders round Woking streets for Uh Huh Oh Yeh promo
That’s a bit spine-tingly. He’s in the woods outside Woking where there is an old mosque. Good place to hang about in when you’re about 11 on your bike – or when you’re 15 and pretending to be at school but you aren’t really.
That is my favourite Paul Weller song.
Not a video, but the cover for Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath was shot at Mapledurham Watermill – just up the road from me.
That’s cool. Nice to know it’s still around.
My own thread has reminded me that when they were filming the demolition and outside shots for this video, I drove past with my mum.
Not a music video as such – but there’s a groovy disco song about half way in. Turns out TV’s Telly Savalas out of Kojak really likes Birmingham.
I seem to recall that Telly Savalas did a few of those cheesy promo films, near-identical in format, for various English towns and cities. English Tourist Board or some such organisation?
Must obviously have been made worth his while.
Bob wandering around Crouch End.
Slight tangent. Here is the CND concert/riot scene from Lewis Collins S.A.S. film, Who Dares Wins (1982). Discerning London gig-goers will recognise the venue as the Union Chapel at Highbury & Islington.
Speaking of church’s . Goldblade recorded this video in a run down old church in the Manchester area. The Friar/monk who appears in the video was a real life man of the cloth and could often be seen at Goldblade shows bopping along with aplomb.