Always on the look out to share footage I’ve rarely seen or been directed to  I wanted to point you to Muzu.TV

It’s still in it’s beta format but the seeds of a great ‘channel’ are there. A very heavy emphasis on interviews means a lot of footage of things that either aren’t on you tube or are quite hard to find. It’s one of the first places that seems to have a good archive (and excellent quality) of clips from some long gone and deeply missed English music magazine format shows.

Tony Wilson the founder of Factory Records hosted one such show ‘So It Goes’ on Granada TV out of Manchester, I’m not sure of the actual timeline but I believe this originated from the late afternoon Granada Reports program. It’s an amazing time warp sensation to see him interview a number of musicians and see the mixture of passion and brutal humour to the Screen. An appearance by Joe and Topper from June 1978 is featured on the video archive that is a treasure to watch. (or just search The Clash in the top tool bar). Tony Wilson deserves a good few hours of discussion himself such was his importance on the punk and independent music scene.  That’s for another day – what a chap.

The Tube was another often brilliant program out of Newcastle from ’82-’87. A progressive approach and clued in  hosts meant that any number of indie bands would pop up weekly and always with an interview. This was back pre-internet so seeing your favourite band even for a 3 minute chat was a good thing! There’s lot of great archive from The Tube so I suggest you have a look.

Alright Now preceded The Tube out of Newcastle but only lasted a year or so. It’s on the archives from this show that the second hard to find Clash clip appears. Looks like the winter of 1979 based on the clip and conversation and the fact that the ‘audience’ are seated literally on top of the band is really funny. Also odd is Mick Jones heading into a little music induced shuffle towards the end of the clip. (same search option as above)

Muzu also has a wealth of contemporary videos but the diamonds here are the interviews from 1976-1984. Bono with a full mullet and original Dublin accent before he got global is a noted highlight. Ian Dury is another interview worth digging up, as is Terry Hall. I’ll be bookmarking this site for certain as I’ve just scratched the surface here. Finally – this is good but a bit obvious.

Personally it’s just a huge bonus to see these old clips, being so familar with the songs, the myth around The Clash and the reels of superb photographs it’s that last layer of seeing interviews that is so great to have access to these days.

Enjoy the time tunnel….