The Videotheque

Our colleagues at Mad Wasp Radio decided it would be nice to do something to keep our listeners’ spirits up in these bizarre and confusing times. So we did a Band Aid. Hope it lifts your spirits in some small way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8jCc0YA_xQ

As played on the 24 March 1984 show. Rolling Stone called it “perhaps the most unconvincing anti-drugs song of all time.” Perhaps.

Julian Lennon, the famous ventriloquist, wows the crowd with his David Bowie impression. Better than his John Lennon impression at any rate.

I mean… that’s it.

The Undertones’ last single, from 1983, it got all the way to number 82 and the band split up shortly afterwards. The video is, er… of its time?