Metal Urbain - Paris Maquis - French Punk 1978

Rare vidéo clip from the original line up of Metal Urbain starring Clode Panik, Hermann Schwartz, Pat Luger and Eric Debris, filmed in early 1978.
Paris Maquis was the a-side of Metal Urbain first single on Rough Trade records issued in december 1977. It also happened to be the first record ever issued by Rough Trade label.
The shooting of this video clip went bad, with TV technicians of the time trying to sabotage the band by not allowing them full hearing of the song for good lip-sync, and editing the video on the spot. You can see it as the camera lingers on the unplugged microphones jack, and the singer struggling to hear the music to appear in sync.
All this conflict started because lead singer Clode Panik asked for a microphone and a stand to use to perform, which was denied to him by the techs who thought that a singer using a microphone and a stand on TV was absurd.
You can buy Metal Urbain CDs and Vinyl reissues from http://www.seventeenrecords.com/ including the excellent recent box set anthology 1977-1979, voted box set of the year by Rough Trade.
Video and music are (c) Seventeen Records all rights reserved - uploaded with permission by HDvision on behalf of Seventeen.

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[633ROMANO]

Royan 1980 en charente-maritime / île de olèron années 1980 , Bayonne ... gallaic , Toulouse ... veut retrouver Dominique de la région parisiennes ....

[633ROMANO]

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[633ROMANO]

chch amis dans les années punk a paris 1980 C.k Amical a vous !

[MyRastapopouloss]

je crois que le caméraman c'est endormi sur le zoom a 1 minute 40

[TheXmiserable]

@ajawofcopan”nervis” is kinda hitman

”gardien de l’appris” is a pun on ”gardien de la paix” (cop)

”maquis” refers to the fact that France’s résistants under WW2 were hiding in the bush

[TheXmiserable]

@ajawofcopan Inventer la liberté Fichés, traqués, matraqués Face aux nervis camouflés Solides gardiens de l’appris Payés armés pour nous tuer. Paris maquis quotidien Un jeu truqué où tu perds Terreur meurtre à chaque instant Drôle d’état assassin Fragilité liberté. Révolution résistance Paris maquis quotidien La ville zombie régulée Musés blindés de l’appris La ville résiste terroriste. Assassine l’état dans la poche Je te juge l’état contre moi Fasciste!

[ajawofcopan]

not sure what they're saying but it's groovey

[efflam666]

Metal urbain, mon enfance du vrai bon punk

[ThorOdinFreya]

Made punk music before the sex pistols !

[artblack01]

@frankieropansy13 Is that a joke? you do know they didn't have that technology at the time.