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Date
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Description
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VH-1's Pop-up! Video
NYC, NY & London, UK |
late 1990s |
Head Over Heals, Shout,
and EWTRTW |
*
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Saturday Night Tv Show
London, UK |
1996 |
Roland plays "God's
Mistake" with the Live Kings Tour band.
(Photo courtesy of Linda Dalziel) |
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MTV Brazil
Sao Paulo, Brazil |
1996 |
Includes an extensive
interview with Roland about
the Live Kings Tour as well as the band playing a rare cover version,
Peter
Gabriel's "Digging in the Dirt", during the Sao Paulo concert sound
check. |
* |
Jammin'
Italy |
1996 |
Brilliant acoustic
performances of STSOL and RATKOS. Roland, David Sutton, and Louise
Goffin on acoustic guitars and Jebin Bruni in the
background doing his best Carole
Steele impersonation on percussion. Very similar to the Raoul single
b-side acoustic performances.
*See video clip of this
performance - Click Here!
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MCM Magazine Interview
France |
1996 |
Roland talks about the
past Live Kings Tour, the crazy American
fans on the internet, his current musical influences (like Garbage),
and
why he changed the second half of the RATKOS album before it was
released
on the then new Sony label. All in English with French subtitles. You
can
get a very good sense of RO's
humor
here with comments like "Curt now has 0% body fat- who cares about pop
music when you have 0% body fat." |
** |
MCM Rock Legends
France |
1996 |
A documentary-style piece
with videos mixed with Roland talking a bit about the history of TFF,
including Graduate and each separate 'TFF era', as well as his lineage
(talks about his father and how he ended up in England). |
** |
Canal Plus
Madrid, Spain |
1996 |
A Tv report of the Live
Kings Tour. Includes interviews with fans inside the venue, clips of
the warm-up band, clips of RATKOS & Falling Down,
and the full length performance of
God's Mistake. |
** |
PBS "On Tour" (version 2)
First
Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota |
1995
(broadcast summer 1997) |
Live concert footage of Break it Down
Again, STSOL, and RATKOS,
intermixed with comments about the Live Kings Tour from Roland |
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PBS "On Tour" (version 1)
First Avenue in Minneapolis,
Minnesota |
1995
(broadcast summer 1996) |
Live concert footage of
Break it Down Again, Reyes Catolicos (reprise), and RATKOS, mingled
with an interview of Roland by a cyber-alien. |
** |
Tartara
France Tv Variety show |
Oct. 8th 1995 |
Brilliant one hour show
to promote the release of
the Raoul album, includes live performances of STSOL with Julian Lennon
on back-up vocals, Stand By Me (duet with Julian Lennon), Woman in
Chains
(duet with Oleta Adams), and RATKOS. All backed by a full band,
including Alan Griffiths. Also,
there are some intermittent interviews between songs with Roland,
Julian, and Oleta in English with
a bilingual French host.
*See video clip of this
performance - Click
Here!
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Manzanares Castle Tv
promotion
Spain |
1995 |
Tv interview with Roland
(with Spanish overdubs) to promote the release of Raoul the album.
Includes brief clips of the kickoff party at the Manzanares Castle and
the Raoul and the Kings of Spain single video. |
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The Tonight Show with Jay
Leno
Hollywood, California |
1995 |
Roland revisits the show
to play "God's Mistake" to promote the release of "Raoul." |
** |
JAM
Germany |
1995 |
A documentary-style show
on the history of TFF. Includes interviews with Roland in 1995, Roland
and Curt in 1985, clips of Roland
playing some Raoul songs live, and clips of
virtually all TFF videos (including the rare first version of Mother's
Talk). Roland talks about
everything from the Graduate (pre-TFF band), to 'boy Curt', to his
likes
and dislikes, etc.
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** |
VH-1's 'the making of the
God's Mistake' video
Las Vegas, Nevada |
Late 1995 |
Complete with clips from
the video and interviews
with the video director, Cameron Casey, and Roland. |
** |
The Stephanie Miller Show
USA |
Late 1995 |
Complete with clips from
the video and interviews
with the video director, Cameron Casey, and Roland. |
** |
VH-1's Premiere Video
with AJ Hammer
NYC, NY |
1995 |
Roland discusses the
RATKOS album, the new single
'God's Mistake', followed by the GM video. |
** |
Nulle Part Ailleurs
(Canal +)
Paris, France |
Sept. 1995 |
Live performance of
RATKOS. Check out Roland dancing his way back-stage after the
performance. |
** |
Countdown
Holland Music Tv Variety Show |
1993 |
Interview. Roland talks
about some of the past videos and singles of TFF along with the new
album, Elemental. Includes a clip
of the Elemental
press kit documentary. |
** |
The Arsenio Hall Show
Fox Studios, Hollywood California |
1993 |
Includes Roland
performing 'Break it Down Again' with the Elemental touring band and a
brief interview.
*See video clip of this
performance - Click
Here!
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Top of the Pops
UK Tv |
1993 |
Performance of "Break It
Down Again" with the Elemental touring band and
backed with a small string section. |
** |
MTV Europe with Ray Cokes
London, UK |
1993 |
Interview to promote the
release of Elemental. Roland gives away an Elemental tour jacket for a
trivia question, picks his Most Wanted Video, and complains that MTV
plays too many old TFF videos (i.e.
Change). |
** |
| Much Music Canada |
1993 |
Review of "Elemental"
concert and interview with Roland.
*See video clip of this
interview - Click
Here!
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| Much Music Canada |
1993 |
Short past interviews clips, retrospective of TFF videos. |
** |
The Tonight Show with Jay
Leno
Hollywood, California |
1993 |
Roland slicks his hair
back and has a cool goatee
while performing "Elemental" with the touring band (Gail Ann Dorsey,
Jeffrey
Trott, etc.). |
** |
MTV's Alternative Nation
with Kennedy
(MTV VJ from 1991-97)
NYC, NY |
1993 |
A hilarious interview
with Roland looking confused after playing U.S.Tv trivia, having
bananna pancakes thrown at him, and talking about the 'BIDA' video. |
** |
World Entertainment Report
USA |
1993 |
A small news/interview
with Roland to promote the
Elemental release. |
** |
MTV's Most Wanted
Afternoon Countdown (U.S.)
NYC, NY |
1992 - Feb 27 |
An interview with Roland
by VJ John Norris, to promote the Greatest Hits release. |
** |
Going Live
London, UK |
1992 |
An interview with Roland
to promote the Greatest Hits. Includes a competition for Roland's
guitar and some original chalk still
drawings from the 'Laid So Low' video. |
** |
Nicky Holland Video
Profile
USA |
March 27, 1992 |
A documentary-style video
for her debut self-titled album with brief interview & comments
from Roland and Curt as well as Lloyd Cole, Cindi Lauper, David Bryne... |
** |
MTV Europe News
London, UK |
1991 |
A series of brief
interviews with Roland. He talks about the Mad World, STSOL, WIC, HOH,
Shout, and Laid So Low videos to promote the release of the Greatest
Hits album. |
** |
Knebworth Festival
Knebworth, UK |
1990 |
The last time Roland and
Curt publicly performed together live. Includes, Change, EWTRTW, and
Badman's Song with the Seeds of Love touring band.
*See video clip of this
performance - Click Here
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** |
| Argentina Derby Rock
Festival |
Buenos Aires, Argentina
1990
(SOL Tour) |
Live performances
of Woman in Chains, The
Working Hour, and Famous
Last Words/When the Saints. Includes Roland trying to speak some
Spanish
t the Argentinian crowd. He dedicates WIC "las mujeres de
Buenos Aires." |
** |
Arsenio Hall Show
Fox Studios, Hollywood California |
1989 |
Live performance of
"Sowing The Seeds of Love" & "Advice
For The Young At Heart". |
** |
Big World
London, UK |
1989 |
Interview with Roland,
Curt, & Oleta about the new SOL LP, done by their old SFTBC press
officer. |
** |
Behind the Beat
London, UK (BBC) |
April 12, 1989 |
"Sowing the Seeds of
Change", an interview with Roland and Oleta along with the acoustic performance of WIC and I've Got to
Sing My Song. |
** |
| Dick Clark's New Years
Rockin' Eve |
1985 |
Live performance of "Shout" & "Head Over Heels" |
** |
Wogan
UK |
1985 |
Performance of "The
Working Hour". |
** |
The Tube
UK TV |
1985 |
Great live performances
of "I Believe" and "The Working Hour." Includes all the old SFTBC gang:
Nicky Holland on piano, William
Gregory on sax, Ian Stanley on keyboards, Manny
Elias on drums,
and Andy Davis on guitar. |
** |
Superstore
UK Tv |
1985 |
Interview, call-in show,
TFF giveaways |
* |
American Bandstand
ABC
(and
rebroadcast on VH-1) |
1985 |
Performance
of "EWTRTW" |
** |
The Tube
UK Tv |
1985 |
Live performance of "The
Working Hour" |
** |
| Solid Gold |
1985 |
Live performance of
"Shout" |
* |
| American Music
Awards |
1985 |
Live performance of
"Everybody Wants To Rule The World" |
* |
| MTV Music Awards |
1985 |
Live performance of
"Shout" |
* |
| Brit Music Awards |
1985 |
Accepting award for
"Everybody Wants To Rule The World". |
* |
| Montreux Gold Rose Rock
Festival - Vol. II |
1985 |
Live performance of
"Shout". |
* |
| Dick Clark's American
Bandstand 33-1/3 Celebration |
1985 |
Live performance of
"Head Over
Heels". |
* |
Saturday Superstore
London, UK |
1985 |
A early morning
children's show. Includes RO & CS talking about the new Big Chair
album, answering phone-in questions from the kids and a SFTBC giveaway. |
* |
Switch
UK Tv |
1983 |
An excellent early live
'Hurting' era performance
of Pale Shelter, Ideas as Opiates, and Memories Fade (live). |
* |
Top of the Pops
London, UK |
1983 |
Performance of Change
(also have done Pale Shelter, the Way You Are, Mothers Talk, Shout,
EWTRTW) |
* |
The Tube
UK Tv |
1983 |
An interview with Roland
and Curt. Check out all the English punks in the background. |
* |
Pop Carnival introduced
by Steve Blacknell
UK |
1983 |
Live performance of
Memories Fade, The Prisoner, Ideas as Opiates, Start of the Breakdown,
The Way You Are, Suffer the Children, and Mad World. |
* |
Top of the Pops
UK TV |
May 27, 1993 |
Performance of "Mad
World" (as most early TotP, a
lip sync). First TV appearance on UK TV. |
* |
| "Rockpalast" |
1983 |
German TV concert of
"The Hurting" |
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