Yeah, I don't mind walking on the moon and maybe message in a bottle but otherwise I often find these albinos annoying. More bad 80s junk.
The Police I'm listening To This Great Band
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Here's a gem from my extensive digital video collection, The Police in Season 2, Episode 8 of the BBC live music series Rock Goes to College.
Rock Goes to College, the successor show to Sight and Sound in Concert, aired 43 episodes between September, 1978 and March, 1981. The television performances were simulcast on BBC radio, so savvy viewers would watch TV with the sound off, while listening to the stereo radio broadcast. This episode was recorded on February 21, 1979 at Hatfield Polytechnic, (now the University of Hertfordshire), and aired three days later.
At that time, The Police were about a week away from starting their first North American tour. They played two gigs in Toronto a month after this show aired, at a club I've never heard of, (The Edge), which was at 70 Gerrard Street East, and hosted live music from 1978-81, (I lived in Montreal at the time).
In February, 1979, The Police had issued three singles, (only Can't Stand Losing You had cracked the UK Singles chart, peaking at #42), and their debut album, Outlandos d'Amour, released three months previously, was not yet selling many copies.
The setlist includes selections from Outlandos d'Amour, (Can't Stand Losing You, So Lonely, Truth Hits Everybody, Roxanne, Next to You) and the live performance debut of what would later be their first of five UK #1 singles, Message in a Bottle, which wouldn't be released until six months later.
This is a rare opportunity to see a band of essentially unknowns on the cusp of superstardom.
I uploaded this earlier this morning. It's currently available for download, (29 minutes, 11 seconds, 700 MB, Xvid .avi [CINEPACK] file type). The online-viewing option should be available later today, (archive[dot]org's online viewer only plays MPEG4/ H.264 video, [.mp4 file type], so the site will automatically generate a re-encoding of my file in that codec, which takes a variable amount of time. Since there's only one file which isn't of long duration nor particularly large, the processing time won't be long, but I have no way of knowing where this file standings in the processing queue.
Update: Online viewing is now available!
Click here to watch.
I checked setlist(dot)fm, and The Police played two shows in Toronto about four months before this TV broadcast, (Horseshoe Tavern).
Rock Goes to College, the successor show to Sight and Sound in Concert, aired 43 episodes between September, 1978 and March, 1981. The television performances were simulcast on BBC radio, so savvy viewers would watch TV with the sound off, while listening to the stereo radio broadcast. This episode was recorded on February 21, 1979 at Hatfield Polytechnic, (now the University of Hertfordshire), and aired three days later.
At that time, The Police were about a week away from starting their first North American tour. They played two gigs in Toronto a month after this show aired, at a club I've never heard of, (The Edge), which was at 70 Gerrard Street East, and hosted live music from 1978-81, (I lived in Montreal at the time).
In February, 1979, The Police had issued three singles, (only Can't Stand Losing You had cracked the UK Singles chart, peaking at #42), and their debut album, Outlandos d'Amour, released three months previously, was not yet selling many copies.
The setlist includes selections from Outlandos d'Amour, (Can't Stand Losing You, So Lonely, Truth Hits Everybody, Roxanne, Next to You) and the live performance debut of what would later be their first of five UK #1 singles, Message in a Bottle, which wouldn't be released until six months later.
This is a rare opportunity to see a band of essentially unknowns on the cusp of superstardom.
Rock Goes to College S02E08 The Police 24 February, 1979 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Rock Goes to College S02E08 The Police 24 February, 1979
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I uploaded this earlier this morning. It's currently available for download, (29 minutes, 11 seconds, 700 MB, Xvid .avi [CINEPACK] file type). The online-viewing option should be available later today, (archive[dot]org's online viewer only plays MPEG4/ H.264 video, [.mp4 file type], so the site will automatically generate a re-encoding of my file in that codec, which takes a variable amount of time. Since there's only one file which isn't of long duration nor particularly large, the processing time won't be long, but I have no way of knowing where this file standings in the processing queue.
Update: Online viewing is now available!
Click here to watch.
I checked setlist(dot)fm, and The Police played two shows in Toronto about four months before this TV broadcast, (Horseshoe Tavern).
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