I gathered som great old interviews in this post. All of them are from swedish TV, which has a long history of being smug, annoying and notoriously lousy on researching before interviews..

One of this blogs followers, Steven Eisler, sent me this clip. It's just fantastic, an hillarious interview with John Foxx in swedish TV back in the 70's.  He seems extremely frustrated and annoyed right from the start of the interview. When you watch it you understad that he must have been through hell in the preparations and set up before they kicked things off...

Short interview with John discussing Eno, punk and being a "Human Being". The ending is hillarious, with the hosts of the show picking up instruments and serenading John with "For He's A Jolly Good Fellow"

The blond guy cutting John off is saying: "I think we will need to cut this off and actually listen to some music instead"... LoooooooL :-)

Lets check out swedish television in the 80's as well. This is an interview with Warren Cann from the popular show "Måndagsbörsen". The fact that cities are called different names in different languages can be confusing. Especially if you don't know what a city is called in your mother tounge.

Vienna, Venice, Wien, Wurzburg, Slough. Whats the difference...

This clip is also from "Måndagsbörsen" in 82. David Gahan interview and Depeche Mode performs See You. Hmm, the interviewer talks about synthesizers vs. "real" instruments. Annoying but common at the time I guess...

First you'll see a great interview with David "Dave" Gahan. Then Depeche Mode will perform See You, all @ Måndagsbörsen 1982. This television musicshow was broadcast in Sweden from 1979-1984.

Note: You can clearly see how the cameraman keeps zooming in on Andrew Fletchers hands to REALLY show that he is fake-playing his Moog Source. Not fair! They should have zoomed in on Martin Gore or Alan Wilder instead, and the nice PPG Wave 2.

Thank you Steven Eisler. Check out his band Jetstream Soldier on Myspace

Harlem Nights Music is back with his cool retro creations. Previously I have posted about his Hip Hop Beats made with a Roland Juno 106 and Korg Electribe. This time its also an 80's tribute based on the Roland CR78 drum machine. Great work, keep it up!

"Tributing the early 80s classics again, this time a softer side, based on the Roland CR78 drummachine, which was used in many of my all time favourite New Wave tracks. Drum sounds were sampled and patterns rebuilt in the Korg Electribe ESX, with additional Linndrum sounds where in the original tracks acoustic drumkits were added. All synth and bass sounds are from my Roland Juno 106 (1984) and Juno 60 (1982) synths, trying to emulate the Prophets and other synths used in the original tracks. Additional fx by Boss SE50.All recreated by ear. None of the original tracks were sampled.- Daryl Hall & John Oates - I can't go for that- Gary Numan - Remind me to Smile- Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) - Enola Gay- Soft Cell - Tainted Love- Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight- Roxy Music - Jealous Guy- Blondie - Atomic"

Harlem Nights on Myspace

This is a video of a Tangerine Dream concert in Poland back in 1983. It seems like it was a great concert, I wish I could go and see something like this now, well I can't, damn!

Oh, the 80's . Are they miming to a Fairlight?

This is a video of the song Somebody by VIDEO from 1984. George Aarons vocals brings us great italo disco! A really cool way to use a Roland SH-101 and some Simmons Synth Drums. The 80's were the days...

The clothes they wear hurts my eyes, but in a good way. 80´s pain in such a happy way!

The 80´s was a fantastic era that has provided some great moments in music. This is definately not one of them.

The synthesizer can be a powerful piece of gear and should not be misused. All this is like a competition in bad judgement