BUZZCOCKS ARE EVERYTHING FUN FACTORY TV SHOW 1980

Check out this fantastic clip of the Buzzcocks on the short lived Saturday morning kids TV show Fun Factory, how wired does Steve Diggle look?

[@egambrill83]

This is definitely my favorite thing on youtube. I'm including all of the incredibly puppy and kitten videos I've seen. This blows them out of the water.

[@diskochimp]

Is Pete Shelley sporting a... MOUSTACHE?? Love the way the "live" drums leak in at the very end! :)

[@emmafoster1500]

I was there. I'm sure they did Ever fallen in Love for the kids too. I didn't think their behaviour odd at the time because Freddie Starr was also on the show and he was charging round the set smashing stuff up. Cast and crew seemed off their heads to my 14 year old eye. It was a morning show all TV folk I met at the time were at least drunks I figured bad hangovers was the problem

[@pigknickers2975]

I've thought for years that this was H17's track! But then I got my best of the Buzzcocks album and this was on it! Fell in love with now and can't believe this performance! Diggle clearly in a different dimension and the vitriol on Shelley's mooey! Those were the days - corrupting us youth! They certainly were!

[@CarlDraper]

apparently they were all tripping up for this performance

[@kellieandbillyjack]

Pete’s face is priceless during the bass solo

[@ottog.garcia7765]

I remember back at the year 1980 me a my friends when to see the Buzzcocks at a place at sunset Blvd corner with Western Ave. At los angeles California it was one of the best concerts I saw

[@cozener845]

Saw them way back in 1978. Great group.

[@newellgirl]

i love how John Maher looks so cool 0:48 whilst the kids tap his drumkit..god help them if they were in the presence of Ringo Starr aka Hard Days Night retort "RINGO: Leave them drums alone.FLOOR MANAGER: Oh, surely one can have a tiny touch.I can just have a little touch.RINGO: If you so much as breathe heavy on them, I'm out on strike.FLOOR MANAGER: Aren't you being rather arbitrary? hehe got to love The Buzzcocks!

[@piggygeoff]

Only the Buzzcocks could repeat the same words over and over again and still sound great

[@bent2]

It's Pete Shelleys Kraut-Rock influence. Buzzcocks incorporated a lot from Can. Can had a thing for repetitive rhythms and melody.

[@piggygeoff]

@@bent2 it still sounds great even today

[@Caribou1983]

yeah their last singles are my fave! strange thing is the best song ever!!!

[@Fractalite]

of the singles mine too ....so dark and foreboding..

[@rstvmo]

On August 30th 1980, The Buzzcocks played "Fun Factory", a childrens show while kids onset banged away on drums played by John Maher. “When I did ‘Are Everything’ with Martin Hannett producing, one of the last sessions as Buzzcocks, every time we recorded a track I was taking acid. So doing the vocals, for example, weird things were going on. There was this kind of golden trail coming off me… everything on that record we did on acid, the vocals, the mixing - and of course, the way Martin was, he was well into that stuff as well. On those last tracks, we were doing Frisco speedballs…There was acid in it - which would have been the Frisco bit, I suppose. So that would have contributed to the…” (his voice trails off here)."

[@tuskedbeast]

Where did you get that quote?

[@tuskedbeast]

Never mind, found it- a Quietus interview with Pete.

[@gentillygirl545]

How beautiful.

[@kgarrett1404]

Apparently they were in recovery mode after a heavy night’s drinking!

[@davemathews7890]

Their best song.

[@werrituk]

God,they look stoned.Fantastic!

[@Smokeyjoedamanedamythdalegend]

Lsd, they were playing for a kids tv show and were told not to come back for some reason, lol.

[@dougsmith7083]

@@Smokeyjoedamanedamythdalegend from A Different Kind of Tension til the end...played those crazy tight live performances on LSD...INCREDIBLE DISCIPLINE

[@RawPower867]

They were all tripping acid.

[@scott12xu]

Is it just me or does the guitar riff sound like it was “borrowed” from The Association’s “Windy”?

[@manxpuss]

Steve Diggle looks pretty wired in this clip!

[@Dannoga]

Out frickin standing!!! My 1st punk tune I heard in or about 77-78 always been my favorite Buzzcocks tune! Thanks! Prince ripped off the riff for rasberry beret lol!

[@mikeMCSG]

It dint come out until 1980

[@Dannoga]

@@mikeMCSG true, i had heard them first 77-78 life was a blur back then :)

[@gentillygirl545]

Honestly, if I had to do that in front of children, I would be high too. After all, kids are naturally high.

[@kellieandbillyjack]

Pete is thinking 3 mins and we get some $$$. Let’s get the F out of here

[@Fractalite]

Yea I read somewhere that Pete recorded or wrote this song on Acid.You can see Diggle bump hard into Shelley at the very end of the track..Shelley doesn't look impressed. Very unusual track for buzzcocks in that there is no traditional verse/chorus structure , just the relentless driving rythm and lyrics. I remeber feeling disappointed when I picked up the single in 1980 , but the Part 1,2,3 singles have grown on me over the years.

[@dougsmith7083]

Krautrock influence Like Hollow Inside, Late For the Train, Moving Away From The Pulsebeat, etc... Peter Shelley was a huge fan of Can, Neu, early Kraftwerk etc...

[@davidw9736]

@@dougsmith7083 sounds quite a bit like the fall too, especially the guitar

[@BenStone_]

Strummers masonic salute on the cover of Combat Rock says it all

[@i.p.knightley6970]

Grand Central hangover

[@heggy_69]

Pete Shelly lookin like ned Flanders lmao

[@localresidentofgortonmarke8415]

I know right lmao

[@drstevie]

Great !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@goldenhinde]

seeing them in manchester 16th jan should be s""t hot

[@tonyajm8289]

A lost Buzzers classic. Their late period (before the split) needs to be reevaluated. Not nostalgia b.s - for the music. That look Shelley gives Diggle at the end wow!

[@clangersspace2679]

God Bless yer eyesight man, I've just watched all 3 uploads of this - never knew it existed, love the song to bits - finally, saw Diggle bump into Pete, but can not see the look you can........

[@kirkcavenaugh758]

Strange.. But cool

[@jerryhattrick91]

hey i just uploaded the studio verion of this for all the lovely people out there.

[@KeithCharlesDovoric]

To think, I was rocking out to "Hulk Hogan's Rock and Wrestling Connection." Have always loved the Buzzcocks, but this song somehow, mysteriously, rises above the ranks.

[@Du_veg]

🤘🏽❤️😁🎧

[@davidellis5141]

💊

[@tonymack66]

Pretty neat, indeed.

[@bent2]

Buzzcocks playing a song on a kids show which was recorded when the singer was tripping LSD. lol

[@Moe23pd]

Pete shelley looks like pablo escobar with that tache

[@Wrestoktwella]

Pete shelley.. Aka... Midge ure

[@djh29971]

This is the sound that the Buzzcocks should of had 12/18 months before. The whole pop punk structure of their tracks was pretty passe by 1979 and having Joy Division support them in that year was a brave move to say the least as it showed to some extent the past and the future. This is one of their best tracks and it certainly helped moving from Rushent to Hannett, though this didn't sell that well, though I'm sure they were past caring by that stage.

[@lakeviewviking]

"whole pop punk structure of their tracks was pretty passe by 1979"; easy to say in hindsight.

[@Fractalite]

That being said the 1979 `Different kind of Tension ' album certainly touched on some of this looping intense darker edged `pop' free style. Pretty much the whole second side of the album ( marked on the sleeve as `The thorn beneath the rose ' ). it was due to the lack of sales on these three double A sides that EMI dropped them bringing about the original demise of the band. Shelley certainly looks `over it' in this clip :)

[@tomstieve]

A punk band on a kiddie TV show

[@buzzawuzza3743]

Why not? Pop music is supposed to be for kids anyway, right?