Annabella Lwin(Bow Wow Wow) Interview on Videowave-July 1983

[imnotthatbloodyguy]

i love annabelles cockney

[alan8653]

@imnotthatbloodyguy Me too!

[geoffdoor]

go anna kick off on her tell her , her show is pretty shit - just another angry mixed race always angry at the world - she needs to just fuck off

[brettterence]

Annabella Lwin what an amazing women!!!

[jbearden]

What a wonderful archive this is! Many thanks for sharing this one, yeah!

[hardyharlol701]

I was born in july 1983

[IxHazardIx]

thubs up if you came for wow

[benderman5000]

what this 83, her maturity  level is wear 30+ year old today and she's frecken hot

[SKOTP69]

I Loved...and LOVE...Annabella!

[khanflesh]

Annabella Lwin is unreasonably beautiful.

[Jangocat]

The 80's were the best!

[flippyflyer]

nice chairs...what was the budget, 8 cents?

[alan8653]

@flippyflyer Yes it was!!! But I got new chairs the next shoot that I shlepped along for the 25 years. Those f&^%$king squeaking chairs were from Youngfilmakers studio chairs.

[flippyflyer]

@alan8653 that was great...and thanks for the amazing clip I saw them open for the Pretenders at UCLA in Feb of 1982...wow what a show!.

[CattitudeInterlude]

@flippyflyer :D I myself noticed the chairs as well...I see I am not the only one

bwahahahaha!!!

[Kylef7735]

Its makes me sad that Matthew Ashman died, I would give anything to have his Gretsch White Falcon.

Even though the guitar is totally thrashed and covered in Magic Marker.

Its a great sounding guitar, and the history is great too.

Billy Duffy of the cult has it now, when im rich ill buy it off him.

[Raymond09871]

Great vidoe Alan- Thank you for your dexfription also

[sallice]

That lady keeps asking if she's kidding.... Guess its not an English thing to do to doubt every single thing a person says.

[ChrissieBana]

totally agree with her. THE MUSIC IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN HOW THE MUSICIAN LOOK. Never forget that.

[Kylef7735]

HOLY CRAP THIS IS SO 80S

[alan8653]

@Kylef7735 Yes it is

[alan8653]

@Kylef7735 And was

[Raymond09871]

@Kylef7735 And your point is?

[Kylef7735]

@Raymond09871 ITS SO GREAT!!!

[soadfan33]

How sad no air conditioner. Poor annabella

[admortemfestinamus]

@soadfan33 Oh That's HAIR, thought it was some kind of furry animal... Like Bow Wow Wow despite that :)

[Kylef7735]

@admortemfestinamus LOL, remember this is from the earlier 80s

[alan8653]

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[hislove4ever7]

Anabella is so classy and mature for her age. I'm 16, and she seems like someone I'd genuinely want to talk with here.. not usually the case with most people my age. XD <3

[alan8653]

I liked the songs before I liked her. Her personality was tremendous in 1983

[bj616]

Beautiful Burmese gal. Annabella is 44 now and hotter than ever.

[msegov]

Wow, I forgot about the crush I had on her back in high school...

[henley65]

Hmmmmm. Expensive set they have there!

[alan8653]

How much do you think studio rental was in 1983?

[henley65]

That studio in particular? About one pound! lol :-)

[alan8653]

1983 A TV production studio for $35 an hour? You can't beat that. Then or now.

[uberrokk]

lovefoxxx kind of look and acts like her in a way...

[mrsgoatlady77]

i can only hear out of one side of my headphones.....

[omarieswifey]

so is that where rihanna got her hairstyle? annabella is fllyyy

[Legendofzoom]

Man she was so beautiful back then.........Her style went back like 3 or 5 years back..........such a trend setter back then

[powrxplor69]

She was born in oct of '65 which would

make her 17 at july of '83

I remember she was only a few yrs older

than me. They were a great band,very

underrated

[alan8653]

Yes very underrated,

[leftylion]

no she was like 19 then

[hjavgvm]

She was 15 during this interview

[DickVain41]

nope 17

[gregmmck]

She was 16 when she made these songs in 1982-83

[alan8653]

She started earlier than that.

[Cruentus1]

Thanks for the upload. Annabelle seems quite mature for her age(17-18?), I'm impressed. On the other hand, this vid brings back some bad 80's memories. That interview chick looks, acts and is dressed just like the Jersey JAPs that infested my alma mater back in the day. BTW, check out my videos for some interesting Pixies/Breeders vids.

[alan8653]

Not all were Jersey JAPS. Some were sophisticated poseurs.

[Zakumisama]

:C Well that is really sad. Love her hair. It is too cool.=D Love the video <3

[alan8653]

Whats sad????

[Zakumisama]

That I never see her in a concert =S, and I miss that music =D, but I still hear it in my head :D <3 haha.

[Salvianow]

Annabelle was so friggin hot.....amazing!

[MaskedMan66]

Yeah, well, they said the air conditioner had broken down.

[Blackhawk12388]

dam this video is before i was even born lol

[alan8653]

That's quite terrifying to me as well.

[andpyramids]

haha, me too. i was born the year after. she looks so hot, though, damn!

[jimcarreyonline]

you know she was only about 15 or 16years old there right?

[alan8653]

14 when she began.

[gretscher]

I was a big fan since I was a sophomore in HS in 1982. I always wanted to meet her and I finally did about 21 years later. She was very cool and I was starstruck. Things like that never happen to me but this time it did.

[goingdownhard]

Annabella is 1 of the most stunning looking women ever.

She is in my virtual hareem and I treat her very respectfully.

[desamator11]

@goingdownhard yes she is!

[pescecan8]

@goingdownhard I actually cant stand her. I think that she was so cocky and sassy and defenetely too young for that shit. Someone that wrote about the band describes her as someone always complaining about everything like a spoiled little brat. But maybe that's the reason people liked her. Anyway a certain english scene manipulated punk and tried to turn it just into another fashonable thing.

[romeodigital]

and I cry... alnight, do you wanna hold me?

[alan8653]

Great unpublicized song.

[aitraining]

Nice chairs! This must have been a big time show.

[alan8653]

Its freaking public access. What part of no-budget do you not get? Anyway I replaced those crappy chairs at the next studio shoot.

Blame Young Filmakers.

[PAULLONDEN]

T/-\|\|X for the info Alan,

yet you failed to mention were

this was filmed,I gather...|\|ew ¥ørk ?

[alan8653]

The program was shot in Young Filmakers (Lower East Side, NYC) for 2 years. Then New York Video Workshop (Chinatown), as well as F-Stop Cafe in the West Village,Blue Willow Cafe (on Broadway in the Village) as at other locations in Chelsea, Tribeca, Boerum Hill (Brooklyn), Gramercy Park, Peppermint Lounge.

After 1990 I shot single camera at the World Trade Center, my studio on West Side Piers, etc.

[martinihoudini]

1983 was the year that good music peaked.

[alan8653]

That could very well be true.

[peter97624]

AMEN !!!!!!!!!!!

[mjd775]

...gorgeous!!!!!

[ibeyoutu]

Look at this: everything has dated except Anna.

[PAULLONDEN]

Whell....Ibe....I'm lookin',but

time has been kinder too Merle,

all respect to An,but she looks a mess here./

[prayforsilence]

You you just love the deck chairs!! the 80's was such a hilarious time! they're sitting on deck chairs they obviously bought from Kmart or somewhere! I love it!!

[gretscher]

I met her and spoke to her a bit. She was cool.

[seerauberjohnny]

bye bye credibility

[alan8653]

Meaning what????

[seerauberjohnny]

@alan8653 Meaning the music video's shameless use of American iconography-a blatant attempt to crack the U.S market which in those days was the kiss of death to any English band with any pretension to punk/street cred

[GlanceofGlory]

This was when she was sane, you see her latest stuff? It's like she was more mature when she was a teenager.

[alan8653]

Yes she was intensely mature at the time.

[SteveResin]

Annabella is a Goddess.

[mignonhenne]

they were too clever for the simpleton charts.

[alan8653]

Merle Ginsberg???????

[undeadthing99]

lol no she cant kickbox :P

[hugocreated1989]

I like the suttle ways anabella got around without mentioning malcom mclaren and co.

[Tazz77]

Thanks for posting. I've never seen this before. I was a huge fan back in the day...had a crush on Annabella. But I don't think the band ever got the respect they deserve for being good musicians.

[alan8653]

They were great musicians. The albums speak for themselves. Yeah, who didn't have a crush on Annabella.

[DroverChicago]

What do you mean who "didn't" as in past tense? I still do.... and she's still looking awfully good these days.

[soniq71]

I'll second that!

[alan8653]

We dont see as much Anabella these days like we want!

[realitycheck333]

always interesting how styles and fashions change so much. can't get much more "80s" than this. but as she says, what's more important is the music. amen.

[alan8653]

Not exactly cut off but ended slightly prematurely

[alan8653]

I could imagine it. Can't confirm

[maggieszczur]

she looks like jessica alba. are they related?

[alan8653]

Jessica Alba and Anabella are hot, but not related. Anababella is from Myanmar (Burma).

[PeteyTee08]

I believe Annabella is Jessica's Alba's mother. DNA cannot lie.

[ShieldedOne]

Was'nt AnnaBella Ewin like 13 or 14 years old during this band ?? She started out at a very young age

[alan8653]

She started with the band at 14 or so.

[ShieldedOne]

I thought she had started off her career at an early age and what a great talent she was then and remains to be to this very day.Good Luck to you both and keep at it there are not many bands from this scene that are still viable and I have to say Anna looks incredibly beautiful still. Thank you for the reply, it is very unusual to receive and at the same time very cool. Is there a web site that one can go to and see about tour dates and news??

[alan8653]

There is a web site for Anabella. I dont know it offhand.

[Ningirsutyr]

Annabella Lwin seems as she's considerably discontent of being there for the show and the hostess sounds much like a fangirl then the person who should be presenting the show..

[alan8653]

Annabella was uncomfortable as we all were. A TV studio without air conditioning is a hot place. Merle was a little giddy in her admiration but she wasn't the fangirl type.

[sabu63]

Wow! I forgot all about bow wow...But she is what interested me about the band at that time.

[alan8653]

Most would agree

[theogore]

Thanks for this!

Annabella and BWW are still amazing.

[alan8653]

It wasn't Merle's bit it was the directors intutition to keep the audio of the previous video going over a shot of the studio, to build anticipation.

Yes both Bow Wow Wow and Annie Lenox weren't big hits in then MOR/Hair Band obsessesed America.

[sectmaniac]

Fantastic footage! Thanks for posting it!

[GimmeBWW]

Thanks!

[alan8653]

This is just an excerpt.