Early UK Poppers & Breakers 1982

Taken From Channel 4 series Back in the day called Bacchanal - Street Art (1984),original audio contained WMG content so excuse the dips in sound
Directed By Horace Ove an underated filmaker who also made Skateboard Kings for the BBC (1978).
Extra T's ET Boogie Sunnyside Records 1982.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Bodypop
• UK
• Breakdance
• Poppers
• Old School

[Belopolskiy]

I pinged an email to Bacchanal production company (Insight productions) who game me some details..

Originally Shown in 12th May 1984 22:00 on Ch 4 and was the pilot launch program. The programs ran from May 1984 until late 1984 and included Exiles, The record, Out of Africa

Street art.

Director : Horace Ove

Director /Producer : Brian Skilton

Pre production started in May/ June 1983 one year before the first show, for the concept and initial filming "at locations in central london"

[TerryvisionTank]

@Belopolskiy

Thanks for that update i was thinking 83 just because of the elements that brought Breaking and Hip Hop to the UK. 82 seemed a bit early I had relatives living in New York at that time and i knew some of what was going on stateside but saw little evidence of it over here.

[MannyFresh6]

any chance of a title edit to say it was 82? :)

[TerryvisionTank]

The substitue music (ET Boogie ) is definitely 82 ,But the earliest this was produced was 1984 . The three things that inspired Hip Hop in the UK was Wildstyle Malcolm McClaren's Buffalo Girls Video and Flashdance all came out over here around 83. Only UK Rap/Electro music predates Breaking And Graffiti as we know it.I'm going try to upload the Graffiti part of this doc soon.

[MannyFresh6]

@TerryvisionTank it was 82 dude, even Dolby said so when he saw it ;)

[TerryvisionTank]

Screenonline lists transmission as 12th May 1984 but if Dolby says its 82 they must've filmed it then and waited 2 years to show it .

Anyway you got some really good videos on your channel. Thanks for the feedback

[MannyFresh6]

@funkateer17 He didn't see B-boys the FIRST time he was in NY no, he saw the Buffalo gals vid when he got back, then got down with the b-boys when he moved back to NY the second time in 84 :) and ya, I was with him when he got the award, we got the coach up :)

[funkateer17]

@MannyFresh6 If you watch the clip of Dolby getting his Mighty 4 Award, he says he didn't see any B-boys when he was in New York. He says he first saw them on TV in the Buffalo Gals vid, when he was back in Blighty. I got a video of this clip off a guy, back in '95, along with all sorts of other good shit, including Wildstyle and Style Wars, which I watched back to back. I'll never forget that experience. That video tape changed my life, I'm not exaggerrating.

[zarrow50]

I Had most of this show on vhs. Good stuff.

[dibbs06]

This was definitely screened later than 82 maybe 83 when I first got into the dance scene.

Remember the original music starting with a voice intro... from the makers etc....

[Belopolskiy]

I pinged an email to Bacchanal production company (Insight productions) who game me some details..

Originally Shown in 12th May 1984 22:00 on Ch 4 and was the pilot launch program.

Director : Horace Ove

Director /Producer : Brian Skilton

Pre production started in May 1983 one year before the first show, for the concept and initial filming "at locations in central london" . Nutraments London bridge @ the beginning wasn't released until late 1983. Kinda puts this in 1983 not 82.

[MannyFresh6]

@TerryvisionTank Yeh it's coz this is in Sidewalk days which 82 onwards when Dolby had not long been breakin, by 84 it was London Allstars when Dolby had come back from living in NY :)

Thanks, have you watched the 3 part Style Wars thing of Dolby in my favourites?