Atmospherics: Listen To The Radio

Promo clip directed by Nicolas Roeg and produced by Tim Bevan for Atmospherics: Listen To The Radio (1983) written by Tom Robinson and Peter Gabriel. There's a live version of this at http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lmy3DLIRyUs&feature=related and the Tom Robinson website has more videos at http://www.tomrobinson.com

Category:

Music

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• Atmospherics
• TomRobinson
• NicolasRoeg
• Roeg
• Tom
• Robinson
• BBC
• 6Music
• PeterGabriel

[MomoTheBellyDancer]

How so very Peter Gabriel this song is.

[bothways]

@MomoTheBellyDancer that's lucky, given the songwriting credits above :-)

[bmuscotty88]

Is there any meaning to the symbol they draw at the beginning of the video? I recently saw this same drawing on someones desk at work. Does it have a name?

[bothways]

@bmuscotty88 not that I know of - it was a maze design that Nicolas Roeg though would be good to feature, but maybe google image search could find its name for you?

[canis65536]

I always felt this song was written just for me, scanning the dial late at night. Still own my 7" piece of plastic, BUT I never saw the video until today. What is the significance of all the faces changing from young to old and back again? What has that to do with the song? I don't get that.

[bothways]

@canis65536 Well to be comletely honest I don't really know, but hey - it was Nicolas Roeg directing the video and he ws afamous movie director while I was just some schmuck who'd written a song. So I let him get on with it. It was nice that Steve Laurie and his partner Freddie Stopler, plus Ebo Ross and Paul Harvey from the band were able to play parts in it though...

[RifledBarrel]

@ 'bothways'......thanks for your reply/info...that's a great track you've written.......my fave lyric from it is ' atmospherics after dark, noise and voices from the past, across the dial from Moscow to Cologne....interference in the night, a thousand miles on either side, stations fading into the unknown'....very thought provoking.....I don't know if you are THE Tom Robinson but I wish you all the best :)

[mcampeau11]

@bothways I think it is a reference to Keith Haring.

Happy New Year!

[back2frinky]

@canis65536 Look at the video this way: you loved the song when you were young, and you'll still love it when you're old.

[Fersomling]

I first heard this song on my first trip to Europe in January/February of 1984. Lasting memories through this song of Amsterdam and the Rhine River Valley.

[morphemass]

I hadn't heard this song in about....25 years or so and the lyrics suddenly popped into my head tonight; so memorable, superb!

[MarkManning]

I remember like yesterday 2 4 6 8,it playing in my brothers little red Datsun..1978 ?. He died two years ago of cancer .I broadcast on radio in Ireland and often play it.I've no reason to have the serious blues ...but do...during a recent bout I heard- Listen to the Radio-.Tom couldn't care less if you are 'Bothways'.Your talent captured something truely -Atmospheric- here.At 48 I feel jaded with life..this helps me go on :).Thank you...sincerely..-Mark ...'put another coffee on'..and I did !