The Kinks - Icelandic Newsreel, 1965

The Kinks take Iceland by storm, think it's 1965 but please let me know if I'm wrong. I have two other questions:
1) who are the support bands, especially the kids in the stripes?
2) just what is Dave waving as he steps down from the plane?

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Kinks
• Dave
• Davies
• Ray
• Peter
• Quaife
• Mick
• Avory
• Iceland

[pallivall]

Hello WhiteRose63.

Thank you very much for this video. It so happens that I am the drummer with the groupTempo. It was just fantastic to spend those days with our idols. I think I was 17 years old...so this consert was little more than 40 yrs ago. Tx again.... great fun to see this and to look at this great happening again.

Regards, Palli.

[WhiteRose63]

wow, nice to hear from you - Tempo look likea bunch of very cool teens. glad to share the Kinks love!

[lucky1to]

Great that this video is still in place. I´ve seen a part from the same concert with the policemen shaking their heads to the music. This is a longer version and it´s great. Hope you have the entire video available soon.

thanx.

[WhiteRose63]

I only have this version of this clip, but love the idea of those ravin' policemen! thanks for all the comments!

[possi156]

Yes great video, it takes me back in time because I was there at one of the concert. The Kinks played in a cinematheatre,and they played at least 10 concerts in 3 days. Earlyer we had only one or two visit by british beat groups. Yeh, Tempo played first, theyr signer whent on to be a member in a folk group,one other member of Tempo is well known radio commentar - Thorgeir Astvaldsson.

Tempo played cover music. Hljómar/Thorshammer did not play, but they pleyed orginal music but cover music too.

[WhiteRose63]

Fantastic, would have loved to have been there - thanks for all the info!

[BostonRocker51]

wow - you can almost feel the heat rising off those cute Icelandic girls...

[doctorfuse007]

At 0:17" you can see Bjork, third little girl from the left.

[roundmann1]

First group looks like ? and The Mysterians

[RDBeatnik]

Damn, the girl from 1:33 to 1:35 is fine as hell.

[AsswittChaos]

eu racho! muito bom

[Golafsson]

Great video, many thanks to WhiteRose63, I was at one of those concerts, 13yo at the time, still remember my seat was in row 7, and the opening act of Kinks was the coolest thing I had ever seen and was to see for several years. At this time The Kinks were next to the Beatles in fame and popularity. And still have a special place with me. ... PS the first band is Tempo, then Bravo from Akureyri, really young kids, I never heard of them later.

[rnrscrapbook]

I thought I heard the word "tempo" in this video, so I thought maybe the group was called the Tempos. I see they were actually called Tempo. It sounds to me like the second group (who all look like they were 12 years old) is called "the Heretics." Was there a band called the Heretics in Iceland at that time?

[theachtungtree]

@WhiteRose63 imagine making love to one of those "kinks" girls, magic....soooo cool :)

[PAULLONDEN]

So cool to see those 60's newsreels from other bands than The Beatles & Stones.

Don't understand why they left the original sound of the two support bands, and dubbed studio tracks behind The Kinks'performance. Probably a managerial decision.

[slimshine953]

@jenzeppelin If I happen to find one, you're welcome to come along on a trip back to the fabulous, golden 60s era with me. I must advise you though... I may not want to return, of course you could if you like, but I'm sure you feel the same. ;~}

[jenzeppelin]

@slimshine953 If you ever come across one, let me know. I want in, lol! We'll go back to '65 in a flash!!! :) :)