In the 80s we had The Chart Show, The Tube, Whistle Test and Top of the Pops so although we didn’t have YouTube and seven thousand channels we were pretty well catered for hearing new bands and music. Channel 4 put out a late night show called Max Headroom which was a computer generated host who presented music videos (it was actually an actor Matt Frewer in prosthetic make up and a rubber suit). I personally found him quite annoying, but I used to watch it as it played video

Killing Joke had a loyal live following but the record buying public had started to lose interest from Night Time peaking at number eleven in 1985. Outside the Gate scrapped in at number ninety-two just three years later, members left and the band, although not officially breaking up, went into hiatus. Original bassist Youth had left the band in 1982 and had become a well-known producer and met up and worked with guitarist Geordie on a compilation album and then suggested t

It’s 1980 and Top of the Pops is on we had a lot of John Lennon videos after his terrible murder, ABBA still dominating and luckily for us all St Winifred’s School Choir had given us the joy of There’s No One Quite Like Grandma so a man dressed as a pirate with a white band of make-up painted across his nose made me sit up. My dad had died that year, and we spent a lot of time at my grandparents, and my grandad was not impressed by a man in make-up I seem to remember. I just