Live at Metro TV July 1982

ENTIRE ALBUM:
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This is part of a live set we did at Metro TV, a community video center, in mid 1982. We did this to demonstrate a new video synthesiser developed by Stephen Jones, who at that stage was not involved with the band. Our analogue synthesisers were supposed to interact with his analogue video device using control voltages, and to a certain extent it worked but we all decided to do a reworking at the beginning of 1983.

To give you an idea of the vintage, note the titles done on a Commodore Vic20. Also the use of TV sets to make smaller copies of the image (yes you just pointed a camera at the TVs sitting on top of each other :-)

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Music

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• severed
• heads
• petrol
• 1982
• video
• synthesiser

[ivor1689]

I this musuic but being from the uk i can't get my hands on any of the cd's.

[TomEllard]

Come to web site. All are there.

[shatminer]

Truly amazing stuff. Wish I could see a high quality version.

These kinds of effects can be done digitally nowadays but usually look naff - colour saturation always shows up ugly compression atrifacts. I'll bet this looks amazing off the original tape.

[TomEllard]

We have this on DVD.

Cheers.

[thedeadstatues]

What a great version of Petrol !!! Fab

[howardAmb]

this is genius

[theinnernerd]

This song and video are so good I find it hard to believe that they actually exist. Anyone know what the video synthesizer was?

[klausen12]

Petrol???? Great !!!!!

[Ditch2012]

Godammit! I click one YouTube link and I end up back in the 80s.

[ivanviz]

amazing track

[aracri]

Miles away ahead of their time... Brilliant!

[jazzrule]

The stuff of my dreams these days.

Iiiii stop for petrol.

[crispset]

Don't get me wrong : ) this is an seriously awesome tune, the vid is just icing on the cake

[crispset]

I drive an Lamborghini I stop for petrol. No you dont have to remind me of the title, its well in my mind.