Unexpected Guest - UK Decay

A rare clip of vintage UK Decay perfoming their classic 'Unexpected Guest' in early 1981 at the 'Music Halle', Berlin.
Just before the bands winter European tour, bass player Martin 'segovia' Smith had quit the band and was temporary replaced by

Lorraine 'Lol' Turvey as seen in this video.
Seen in retrospect, this clip shows just how 'Goth' decay were! Abbo introduces the 'Hyde' mask for the first time and the band shine inbetween the darkness and strobings. UK Decay footage is exteemley rare and is usually taken from 25 year old VHS tapes, as in the case of this clip which we think was shot by Georgio and Riff Raff from the Berlin band; The Trashers. The quallity is not brilliant but if we can do a better conversion from the VHS we will update it

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Unexpected
• guest
• uk
• decay
• ukdecay
• rare
• berlin
• goth
• early

[ec101dm]

in a righteous world, they should have been as big as Bauhaus !

[shreivox]

"the velvet underground of post-punk/gothic"

[felixcock]

@entraildivider poof

[felixcock]

''I'' am .......Your unexpected guest.

I'M Here

Bastards wouldnt let me in to Glasgows John Street

[entraildivider]

What a load of old rubbish!

[buckstoneboy]

magic..takes me back

[ShahOfBlahII]

I used to have the t shirt! i was watching a re-run of Only Fools and Horses and Rodney Trotter was wearing the same design!

[Schwejk]

And me too, thanx a lot.

[punkpirate33]

can someone please put on UK DECAY UK DECAY

[marcorocca]

very very good! a rare video.

many thanks for this up!!