The Armoury Show - The Glory of Love

[longy12679]

This is from Studio one at Border Tv in 1985. Great gig

[Rikitocker]

I loved everything John did BUT this ,... AS were tripe ... better that he ended up with PIL.

[stavachino]

jobbo oot of tune as usual john McGeogh was the best Magazine, The Banshees, an this...great man!!!!

[shanejacobus]

These guys are so underrated.

[prettygreen66]

..thought this might have been the Venue or Lyceum, either way it was a long time ago now...gr8 gig , gr8 outfit!...cant get hold of the cd, this really should be rereleased again, there seems to be a great demand for it!

[NeilThompson30]

@prettygreen66 - they did the Boston Arms, Tufnell Park in 1984 (their only big London headliner as far as I know) and this looks like it could well be the Boston Arms.

[faddy24]

You can't put a good poseur down ha ha. Still old floppy locks, Jobson's voice, though rarely in tune, was well suited to this epic rock style. And was'nt McGeogh a brilliant guitarist.

[shanejacobus]

John McGeogh was awesome!

[1bode]

WoW this is great! It is so rare to C these guys!

This guy has some voice !!!

[ROCKETRONNIE]

Saw them many times incl lyceum,camden and

crystal palace bowl.

[dommywaddle]

I saw them at the Crystal Palace Bowl at a one-day festival. Think Spear of Destiny played,too. Was that the one you were at? They were the best band there that day.

[montes12]

i think,that the edge took alot of things from john mcgeoch

[domprague]

@montes12

I also think Simple Minds took a fair bit from The Armoury Show, too.

[brightonmod]

amazing is this available on dvd!!!! love to all skids and jobbo fans !!! xxx

[prettygreen66]

...was anybody outhere at the 'Armoury Show' gigs when they played the Venue and the Lyceum in London in the mid eighties?

[KuyuateGirl]

Went to one in Cambden Town - excellent

[HugelySuspicious]

No, I saw them at the Town and Country Club. probably 1985. This looks like it *might* have been shot there, but it was a helluva long time ago. If there is a huge long bar to the left of the stage (as Jobson's looking out) , then it's probably the Town & Country Club....

[prettygreen66]

...does anybody know where i can get hold of a copy of 'Waiting for the Floods' on CD, have searched the internet, but no joy.

[Pachulka]

Waiting For The Floods ... one of the best LPs i´ve ever heard in the 80s. I liked the sound, the vocals ... very sad that they didn´t make it - but ... memories.. :))

[strummerino]

Forgot how good they were! Big Jobbie at his melodramatic best, Hooky bass, a sharper than the Edge guitar sound - if it wasn't for Big Jobbie's mad hairstyle they would have been huge.(but then a mad hairstyle never did the long-mulleted Bono any harm)

[dommywaddle]

I keep coming back to this video. I remember seeing them doing this live at a festival in '84 and expected them to be huge. Still don't know why that never happened.

[prettygreen66]

...i'm sure i was at this gig too, think it was either The Venue or The Lyceum in London....they were a great band!....'Waiting for the Floods' was a cracking album!

[RamonesKaraoke]

Their album is one of the lost classics of the 80s - this is footage I hadn't seen before, it's brilliant.

[RNregina]

U2 is dead

[potace]

For as much an arrogant git Jobson is, it frightens me how talented he and Stu were at 18-19 yrs old when you look at the stuff they wrote for the Skids. I think I'd just about mastered tying my shoelaces at 18.

[domprague]

Completely agree. Stuart Adamson's death was such a tragedy, a waste of a good man and a real talent.

[GallowayHills]

Just posted The Skids "Iona" up. I see U2 have just covered a Skids song. Kaiserwull was right.

[jgml]

Fantastic! Doesn't make U2 look like a pub band, though, come on!

[PrincePurple]

Makes U2 look like a pub band? Yeah, that's a bit cruel. Does make U2 look like The Alarm, though.

[kaiserwull]

TAS should've been massive. What a performance - tight as a duck's arse. Makes U2 look like a pub band.

[RNregina]

Kaiserwull, I feel the same.