The Cure played just two locations on the first US Tour in 1980 before returning to England. In NYC at Hurrah’s and the next night in Boston at The Underground Club. Filmed on Robert Smiths 21st birthday, check out the live video “Play for Today” from the Boston show.
First time view here:
http://www.kinodv.net/movies/moviepages/KinoMonthlyFeature.html
Whacking the bees nest in the Archive Portal are the Dead Kennedys with “Holiday in Cambodia”…Jello pulls a Where’s Waldo in this live video and is pulled from the crowd to finish the tune. Hey WTF …Don’t forget to pack your wife!!
Visite Pol Pot ici:
http://www.kinodv.net/movies/archive/Dead_Ken-Holiday_Cam.html
Additional live performance videos of bands from around the globe in the 80’s … can be found in the Archive Portal as well:
Visit the Archive Portal @ http://www.kinodv.net/ArchivePortal.html
Filmed in Boston:
The Neighborhoods
Nervous Eaters
The Cure
Unnatural Axe
La Peste
Lyres
Thrills
Fabulous Billygoons
Buzzcocks
Mission of Burma
Pastiche
Human Sexual Response
Lou Miami and the Kozmetiks
The King Bees
Robin Lane and the Chartbusters
Ground Zero
Iron Liver Project
Peter Dayton Band
“Some Like It Punk” Fashion Show, SPIT Club, Boston, 1982
Also there to viddy well:
The Jam
Dead Kennedys
Gang of Four
The Clash
Stiff Little Fingers
The Specials
The Stranglers
Siouxsie & the Banshees
XTC
Ian Drury and the Block Heads
The Dead Boys
Sham 69
The Ramones
Wire
The Damned
The Beat
Art of Noise
The Cramps
New Order