Plastic Bertrand – Tout Petit la Planète
Possibly the worst music video ever made, this clip is a playback with Plastic Bertrand walking – it would be a stretch to call it dancing – through Cannes while…
Possibly the worst music video ever made, this clip is a playback with Plastic Bertrand walking – it would be a stretch to call it dancing – through Cannes while…
Hard Corps had a French singer but were part of the English alternative electronic scene of the 1980s. With Martin Rushent doctoring their sound, they could have been the Human…
A documentary about Frank Tovey’s Grand Union album with The Pyros, in which he is interviewed by Savage Pencil and frolics with goats, comments on Canary Wharf and gives us…
Reaching back to 1987, Sista Mannen på Jorden (SMPJ) made their first live appearance at Stadt Hamburg, an all-ages venue in Malmö, Sweden. The band started as a side project…
We are immense fans of Fad Gadget/Frank Tovey here at Cold War Night Life, so finding this treasure from 1982 is a source of great happiness. The clip is from…
Thirty years ago this week, Psyche released their debut album, Insomnia Theatre. The record was significant on several grounds: it was one of the first North American dark electro recordings;…
In 2003, Echoboy played the Montreux Jazz Festival. Their set opened with this classic track, from Volume 2 (Mute), with a dedication to Joe Meek. The proceedings were captured by…
Mirrors took some stick for wearing their OMD influences on their sleeves, but few acts in recent times have managed to sound as magisterial as the Brighton-based outfit did on…
With Tina Schnekenburger running their Conny Plank-produced backing tracks, the duo of Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft dominate the stage in this video from 1981. Robert Görl remains one of pop’s greatest…
Lustans Lakejer [EN: Lackeys of Lust] was one of Sweden’s first – and remains one of its greatest – new wave bands. Formed in 1978, the band achieved success with…