Blog category: Tv

Knock out interviews with John Foxx, Warren Cann and David Gahan

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

 

The Shape Of Things That Hum - great synthesizer documentary

The shape of things that hum is a series of short documentaries about electronic instruments with every episode focusing on a specific instrument. These videos have been around for a while and a lot of you have definitely seen them already. If you haven't, its a must see. A lot of classic vintage gear and some cool people talking about them (some, definitely not all of them). This was broadcasted in England back in 2001. I found these nuggets on Google Video and I thinks its the perfect time killer for the Christmas Holidays. Though the narrator is a bit boring...

OK, here goes. 6 clips, all of them 11 minutes long. It was seven clips, but the Yamaha DX7 episode is not available unfortunately.

Minimoog

Roland TB-808

Roland TB-303

Simmons

Vocoder

Fairlight

The Akai Sampler

 

Moby interviewed in his Manhattan studio

Motherboard* meets up with Moby in his Manhattan apartment-studio. He sure has some fine gear in his huge collection of analog instruments. He has the Noahs Ark for drum machines!

 

Over time I have just bought more, and more, and more equipment.

Moby

*Motherboard.TV is an online video network and community focused on the exploration of the nature and culture of technology, as viewed through the lenses of curated editorial content, community, and dialogue.

A great initiative by Dell. Of all companies, Dell.. ?

 

Synth Britannia SOS

Tonight its on, tune in at BBC 4 at 9 pm. Seems like we and others that are not in the UK will have to wait though. Or can anyone tell us about a stream, vod, pod, download or something? Read more about Synth Brittania in our previous posts here and here

Expectations for Synth Brittania building up

Great read in todays Guardian "One nation under a Moog" - I really need to see that Synth Brittania BBC 4 documentary. It airs on Friday, October 16th, 2009:

"In the late Seventies small pockets of electronic artists such as The Human League, Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle were inspired by Kraftwerk and J G Ballard to dream of the sound of the future against the backdrop of bleak, high-rise Britain. Gary Numan's 1979 appearance on Top Of The Pops heralded the invention of synthpop, which would provide the soundtrack as Britain entered a new, ruthless era in the Eighties. Depeche Mode, four lads from Basildon, came to embody the new sound, while post-punk bands such as Ultravox, Soft Cell, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark and Yazoo took the synth from the pages of the NME and onto the front cover of Smash Hits. By 1983 the Pet Shop Boys and New Order were pointing to where the future of electronic music lay -- in dance."

Featured artists include Phil Oakey, Vince Clarke, Martin Gore, Bernard Sumner, Gary Numan and Neil Tennant.

[via the Yahoo! Fairlight Group]

 

You can see the trailer HERE

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Been into synthesizers for 15 years, but never a technical geek. I'm a member of the band Velours Perfect, and have had electronic music as a hobby since I stopped playing with G.I Joe Figures. I buy and sell synths all the time, sometimes manically, and my favourite synth varies, right now it is the Alesis Ion. On this blog you can read about whatever comes out of my mind, mostly synthesizer-related stuff though. Bzzt!

 

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