Category: Vintage Video

Vintage Video: Watch The Cult's 'Live at the Lyceum' out-of-print 1984 concert film

Vintage Video: Watch The Cult’s ‘Live at the Lyceum’ out-of-print 1984 concert film

After a few weeks off, we’re back with a new installment of what’s supposed to be the weekly Vintage Video feature, this time presenting the The Cult’s long-out-of-print, VHS-only concert film “Dreamtime: Live at the Lyceum,” filmed May 20, 1984, at the London venue and released later that year.

Vintage Video: Talking Heads live in 1978 — watch 80-minute 'More Songs'-era set

Vintage Video: Talking Heads live in 1978 — watch 80-minute ‘More Songs’-era set

For this week’s this installment of Vintage Video, we travel all the way back to 1978, when things apparently still were filmed in black and white, and the Talking Heads were still a herky-jerky four-piece yet to discover world music and on-stage guest musicians.

Vintage Video: Ministry at First Avenue, 1983 — watch full 'With Sympathy'-era set

Vintage Video: Ministry at First Avenue, 1983 — watch full ‘With Sympathy’-era set

For this week’s this installment of Vintage Video, we travel back 30 years to a kinder, gentler time, an era before Al Jourgensen discovered speed metal and riddled his face with tattoos and piercings, and was, instead, simply content to rock a sharp hat, sing in a faux British accent and craft some high-grade early-’80s synthpop.

Vintage Video: Siouxsie, Robert Smith and Banshees get weird in 'Play at Home' special

Vintage Video: Siouxsie, Robert Smith and Banshees get weird in ‘Play at Home’ special

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we present one of the weirder things you’ll see today: Siouxsie and the Banshees’ “Alice In Wonderland”-inspired “Play at Home” special that aired on the U.K.’s Channel 4 in 1983, during the period Robert Smith was in the band.

Vintage Video: Love Tractor plays UCLA on Feb. 12, 1987 — watch full 90-minute set

Vintage Video: Love Tractor plays UCLA on Feb. 12, 1987 — watch full 90-minute set

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we turn to Slicing Up Eyeballs reader Walt, who shared with us this full 90-minute recording of classic Athens, Ga., alt-rockers Love Tractor performing a free show on the University of California at Los Angeles campus on Feb. 12, 1987.

Vintage Video: Depeche Mode ended European leg of Devotional Tour 20 years ago today

Vintage Video: Depeche Mode ended European leg of Devotional Tour 20 years ago today

To mark the occasion, Depeche Mode has debuted a new Archives Special on its website, a 5 1/2-minute reel compiled by webmaster Daniel Barassi that features rare performance footage of “Policy of Truth” from that July 31, 1993, concert, plus clips of “120 Minutes” host Lewis Largent interviewing each member of the band.

Vintage Video: Public Image Ltd. live at 'Rockpalast' 1983 — watch full hour-long set

Vintage Video: Public Image Ltd. live at ‘Rockpalast’ 1983 — watch full hour-long set

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we bring you the full hour-long performance by Public Image Ltd. on the West German TV show “Rockpalast” in 1983, a 13-song set that recently was released on both CD and DVD — but the folks at the RockpalastOfficial YouTube channel put it online.