Thompson Twins - Into The Gap

[pfunkster83]

wow, check out that old school magic carpet...so slow, small with no amenities, and you didn't need a special permit to fly it back then, i had a friend Aubdul who flew around the neighborhood, he was only 12 years old! 

[Ui2019]

Betcha didn't know people could fly in the 80s! Flying carpets were outlawed in 1990.

[JoseTwitterFan]

And we all know that this "hideous, over 'yooful' bearded chap", is Alistair Pirrie, who co-presented this programme with Lisa Stansfield.

[ChrisVaughn85]

GREAT QUALITY!

[TheNouveauxdecadence]

WOW, good quality video

! LOVE!!!!!!!

[DaisiKellermann52]

Grab the audio from this track at thetunify doht cohm.

[shmuli9]

The Thompson Twins performed "The Gap" live on a late night American TV show called "SNL". I still remember seeing it.

[cerebralpalsy123]

I like that the woman is doing the most moving of all 3 of them but contributing next to nothing in terms of sound!

[javsc]

Come back Twins!!

[itsfun2youtoob]

They were such a cute couple, love the hair do.

[MannaMachine69]

Haha loving the magic carpet sfx... I remember watching this after school in 84.. I wouldn't miss Razzamatazz for love or money, not that I was offered any! Wicked footage, your TT stuff is truly epic binker1

[debbiechickie5]

I was theh town punker..I saw this concert and felt like I was no longer going to shunned! This was a great tour.

[brismike65]

Isn't it odd that they were so criticised by English critics, and later American ones, but this video, miming or not, they still had stage presence and great synth tracks. Oh well, time always changes views.

[TR0LL2R0CKS]

If you were in this audiance, hold thy fucking head in shame. really good band I may also add.

[johnofett]

one of my fave bands and my fave song on into the gap...WOW!!!!!

wish u guys were back...aarghhh!!!!!

[tarasvoice]

Their sound was unique for this day.

[240ups]

Perfect example of what they lost in their later work. So exotic was their sound as that of an introduction of a world culture sounds. Although, several songs use, not authentic "motifs", from those cultures but instead western musical "notions" of that culture, as a basis for these songs. It worked well and came off as very exotic. But does the "East" actually have a song with that "Eastern" hook that they use in this song? It conveys to us Westerners that it is the "East", but is it really?

[jaketyja777]

all these little kids in the audience it's like Kiddie a-go-go

[WaddeDarinDarin]

!! its the curry effect..Tom has a favorite spice he likes called curry...

[susancapstick]

blast from the blast .............i was there,cant see me but spotted my husband .

[heychupacabras]

Thanks for posting! Awesome song and band!

[MrHomBat]

Outstanding! Sexy! Great Music! What more could I want?

[splowery]

Thanks for posting this...I'm in the audience on the stage. I'm the dodgy looking kid who's out of time and wearing a grey cardy with a Y on it.

[binker1]

at least you're not the guy in the white jumpsuit and bow tie in the totp into the gap film!!! :)

[mayfairgirl]

you are so lucky! ! TT were my all time fave band as a teenager. saw them once, my first concert.

my all-time thrill was getting a letter from alannah currie, still have it!

[binker1]

thank the lord for spotify...just listened to judy do, which i only have on vinyl (signed of course!)...what a great track from a great album...i still loved when this came out, but they were already slipping in my humble opinion...

[chrisnoaro1]

@binker1 great track best track on the gap. i agree, quick step was wonderful, but the follow up album not so good, too mellow in places but still had some good songs. unfortunately fo me it was seriously downhill after this.

[bluejeckett]

@splowery So first question regarding the top, Y? lol second question did u actually come to see The Thompson Twins or some other band and thirdly did they force kids in those shows to clap along to songs they hated?

[splowery]

@bluejeckett Y indeed!!..... It was a T V show called Razzamatazz that was shot at the Tyne Tees Television studio's. in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. They used to get the kids from schools around the North of England to use as the audience. As for the clapping, I remember there were that many takes my arms ached..

[TheNouveauxdecadence]

@splowery

You are SO lucky to have been there!!!! WOW!