In the late 70’s La Peste ruled Boston as one of the most dynamic and creative punk bands. The power trio packed them in to local punk venues like the Rat, Cantones, and the Paradise. Here is a video of “Spy Master” filmed in Boston 1979:
http://www.kinodv.net/movies/moviepages/KinoMonthlyFeature.html
John Peel the famous English DJ who kept a battered wooden box with his precious selection of 7-inch singles that meant more to him then any others did. In that box was La Peste’s “Better Off Dead” You can see “Better Off Dead” at KINODV here:
http://www.kinodv.net/movies/archive/lapeste_bod.html
Another Peel favorite was X-Ray Spex fronted by main muse Poly Styrene. X-Ray Spex was one of the most unique and inventive groups of the British punk era. Check out the clip of “Warrior in Woolworths” filmed at the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1978:
http://www.kinodv.net/movies/archive/Xray_Spex-Warrior_Wool.html
Visit the Archive Portal at KINODV and see more live music video performances:
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
Additional live performance videos of bands from around the globe in the late 70’s and 80’s can be found in the Archive Portal as well:
The Jam
Dead Kennedys
Gang of Four
The Clash
Sex Pistols
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
Violent Femmes
Richard Hell and the Voidoids
Madness
Pere Ubu
B-52’s
James Chance and The Contortions
X-Ray Spex