Showing posts with label The Clash. Show all posts
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Tuesday, June 07, 2011

EURO ROCK: The TV Program that "Showed" Us New Wave

EURO ROCK. Do you guys remember this? In the early eighties (1984?), my cousins and I would be stuck on the television every Saturday afternoon for thirty minutes to get our weekly fix of new wave. The thing was, new wave was not popular enough for the TV stations to pickup so no new wave videos for pinoy teens.

The show didn't confine itself to new wave...it is probaby more accurate to show that it was showing alternative brit music (or anything "not" pop). But I associate it more with new wave because this is were I first saw new wave acts.
I have no recollection of their names, but the hosts were two brits. The lead guy was easy to remember because of his wavy brown hair and a moustache that can give John Oates a run for his money. The other bloke was a tall blond guy who resembles the actor Paul Bettany. I wonder what those two guys were doing back in Manila then? Were they married to Pinays? Did they own clubs? Or were they just two bored British Expats who wanted to do something different on weekends (they could be engineers for all in know!).

Anyway, thank god for those two brits: I would otherwise have never seen music videos from the Cure, Tears for Fears, Depeche Mode, Echo and the Bunnymen, the Clash, the Sex Pistols (the last two are not new wave but I really liked them), etc… And to think that they showed only two videos a week! But those two videos meant a lot to me.

Wherever you two pommies are: cheers!

(*Can anyone post their shows on Youtube! That would really be cool)