Tom Robinson - Atmospherics: Listen To The Radio (live) 1983

[Zappstitute]

I just love this!!!

[TheNick279]

Check out that voice!!! Amazing song.

[seville7]

Tom..a fabulous track..total disgrace it didnt get the airplay or recogniction it deserved.

[exmagicbastard]

great song i loved that album north by north west, it was you at your best, stripped down stuff and great production to my ears, sadly I lost that i think i loaned it out, have you got any clips of sector 27 doing 'not ready' that was a great track too. all the best Martyn .

[bothways]

@exmagicbastard Thanks for your kind words! The North By Northwest album is available - like all my records - as a free high quality download via my website. See the info attached to this video for the URL. Tom Robinson

[exmagicbastard]

@exmagicbastard Thanks Tom take care, Martyn

[BJCAshton]

Hi Tom have seen you live many times, . taken loads of photos and even bootlegged a gig or two (anyone remember Manchester International Club??) Always found you to be not only an excellent musician , but an all round nice bloke -hell, you even bought all the Castaway Club a drink at one gig in Chester! Please please please consider playing some gigs-would love to see you at this year's Manchester Pride . How about it??? Love Babs

[papalazerus22]

Tom this is so close to your studio version .... just superb x thank you

[olliespike2]

Fucking wonderful...my God Tom is soooooo good.

great singer..!!

[strangeparty]

Sean Mayes was great on Bowie's Low/Heroes tour. RIP

[Sledge101]

I've always been fascinated by some of the lyrics, they sound like they could be about Eastern Europe behind the Iron Curtain... Does anyone know what 'Uncle Po', and the 'KLO' are?

[bothways]

Onkel Po was a nightclub in Hamburg; Taxi Zum Klo was a gay cult movie in Germany at the time. Bitter Tears was the movie The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant... hence the 'double feature' (Though both were actually in color, not black & white)

[Hafeliel]

I've always loved this song. The lyric about "Atmospherics in the dark, noise and voices from the past, across the dial from Moscow to Colonge - Interference in the night, thousand miles on either side, stations fading into the unknown..." still sends chills up my spine - like the universe unravelling and fading away. :)

I remember having an email chat with you about the origins of this song and your story behind it was awesome. :)

[zeldalicious]

Those words have exactly the same effect on me. Ths song is just so good,

[zeldalicious]

When I was a small girl, My parents had one of those old fashioned radios with foreign stations on the facia, Hilversum, Luxembourg, Cologne and Moscow,seemed so far away and distant and I wondered what life would be like there in those places and this song always reminds me of those days. The faint voices and the silences on the airwaves....

[tranmerechris]

Abolutely, the world seems so much smaller now.

[moontjuhh999]

mooie man

[zeldalicious]

brilliant

[zeldalicious]

You can feel the atmospherics in this song even after all these years. 'Across the dial from Moscow to Cologne'. How the world has changed in the past 20 years.

[oscaandchloe]

Me too!!!!!! luv this bloody song!!!

[dannyfrench]

such a shame goldiggers has now been levelled and turned into an old peoples complex. it was a brilliant place and Tom, as always is bloody brilliant here. its a shame i wasnt old enough to go and see this in 1983 but i was only four!

[phill90212]

Bloody fantastic...lyrical mastermind.

[colargolfriend]

Sorry. I was probably mis-informed.

Even if I'm no catholic I will say 3 Hail Marys to save my soul from damnation !

[bothways]

Bless you, my child

[colargolfriend]

Thanks Peter Gabriel who wrote the song.

[bothways]

Co-wrote. Peter supplied the drum machine pattern that it was written around and the chords of the verse. Then I took it away with me and finished it in Hamburg 6 months later...

[Exdreamist]

great song! thanks 4 sharing!

[300359alann]

he was gorgeously handsome! And I see that he's gone back to his angry young man songs from the beginning..good for you Tom!!!!

[300359alann]

I never realized when I adored his music in my punk and New wave years that we were the same age. And now he brings out thsi song...don't grow old.

[canada647]

Tom and his band got plenty of airplay over here in Canada.

Especially on 'then' Toronto's "CFNY 102.1 Spirit Of Radio".

Great musician/singer/songwriter.

AWESOME VIDEO! Thanks for sharing.

[p6ulo]

God i love this song so much...It defines my teenage years. Brilliant

[twoshedsmcginty]

Brilliant - I would never have thought a live rendition could do the song justice, but this is superb. I love this song, a fantastic evocation of Autumn for me...

[popadop5]

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