Fantastic Day, Haircut 100, Lorraine, ITV1 25/01/2011

[@hazelwalsh3269]

Nick Heywood was a still is SuperCute!! Great memories!! Fantastic!

[@atdotcom64]

I discovered pelican west as a teenage ski bum in lake Louise in the Canadian Rockies in 1983. I played it a million times while skiing countless feet of vertical and so on for many many years after. I still play it and love it. So great to see them ageing and sounding so well!

[@eightiesmusic1984]

Great memory!

[@hubertvale9314]

That was AWESOME! They've still got the magic after all this time! :)

[@paulmckenzie4291]

Underrated musicality in a sea of pop/bop/slop. These guys and ABC were the standard that many headliners failed to meet. And the bass always was, and still is, world standard. Joy!

[@michaelmitchell8218]

Sound great still. Good band shame it ended to soon in the 80s. Glad they made up and playing again. Life to short to hate. Good on you boys and great sounding music.

[@blairandrews5823]

Hi to the band, ironically my name is Blair and I conducted family funerals for Nick and Pete. Nicest guys you could ever meet all the best for the future!!!!!!

[@scottiedog4236]

Wow !!! Watching I thought it now 2021 ! It’s 10yrs ago

[@cyrilrogan4069]

Loved Pelican West

[@nancy18901]

Les Nemes fantastic bass

[@goku8586]

they sound excellent

[@juliethompson5301]

I loved these guys.my childhood.i played pelican west endlessly 🙂

[@theoriginalbluey]

SO good. Lovely to see this. I did really love the later stuff like Prime Time, So Tired etc. too. Would love them to do another album!

[@instruct2008]

Sounds so positive and happy, makes you feel happy :)

[@EdVanMeyer]

There was a lot of great music around at that time it was like the 60's happening again in the way that we left the (mostly) awful 70's behind and there was this great new optimism about. A great time to be 16!

[@Zooney1]

Watch the band at 3:35. Nick is going into one of his lovely creative rambles as he is wont to do and the bass player and the drummer are basically dissing him. Nick then says "they're the new and we're the old and it mixes well" whilst looking across to the others for some moral support at which point he just gets blanked. I think we see right there the dynamic that sent Nick off the rails in the 80's. He was so creative and talented and didn't get the support of the rest of the band. They were not at all sympathetic when he was having a breakdown due to all the pressure. Nick is sensitive, open, highly creative and isn't scared of being vulnerable. The rest of the band on the other hand seem defensive and closed emotionally. Nick had all the charisma too and was the heartthrob. I guess the others were jealous.

[@56squadron]

That's an AWFUL lot of assuming from one video clip about people you don't even personally know. You have no idea how big a knob Heyward behaved like back then, and it's generally not the policy of 20 year old men to nurse maid each other. When people behave bad there is usually enough guilt to go around for all... so stop blaming the rest of the band.

[@ArmpitStudios]

Wow, you sure made up a lot of bullshit. They're obviously friends and happy to be together.

[@Useaname]

You're right. Nick sees things from a different perspective to others. He's a creative genius. The others are equally creative, hence the band's success. But they lack his vision.

[@si_w8201]

"They were not at all sympathetic when he was having a breakdown due to all the pressure." That's because they didn't know, as is clear from the interviews on the new Pelican West re-issue...

[@machtanger]

Fantastic!!!!

[@alanoneill3065]

I was at Maestros that night! It was an Art Scholl party...the place was bouncin! The band were a great live act

[@robeast9009]

Good Band, Remember this Vid when I was in 1st grade

[@nickpalmer3076]

Great to see this. Still sounding good.

[@upfrontbear74]

Fantastic

[@DRAINPIPE57]

Then seen Nick Heyward 3 times live with his solo projects at 80s festivals Rewind and Lets Rock

[@bbodinefan11]

Bands reunited.

[@mackymaca]

Love this band!

[@fendersunburst4832]

I wish I could get my Acoustic Bass to sound like that!

[@BRCSPIRITLORRAINEUK]

Loved seeing them this morning! Thanks for posting, so good to see it again & great memories of my teen years! :)

[@scottcyoung]

Brings back memories "thumbs up" guys. 2 members missing though.

[@atomicinjun]

That bass is awesome!

[@gewglesux]

Think he played an Aria2

[@mandyjudkins1913]

Only lasted 2 years but lovely

[@DRAINPIPE57]

I saw these at. the Echo-wee Queenway Hall Dunstable way back.in 1982

[@richardbowman8202]

VH 1 show bands reunited is responsible for getting them back together

[@edinburghtumuran916]

Great band... indeed!

[@alanoneill3065]

Maestos is now incorporated into the CCA...CCA Glasgow - Centre for Contemporary Arts

[@dougmedina4619]

They sound so good! Where's Mark and Phil??

[@Redmenace96]

Phil Smith is still an in demand session musician. He has projects and essentially a job. He is a great, and can't really contribute the energy and schedule to these one-off things. Dude pays the bills. As it is, modern Haircut 100 is just blokes having a laff. (Not a friend or acquaintance of Phil. Just an interested observer.)

[@stevestone07]

A great band.

[@robeast9009]

Remember the love plus 1 vid when I was in 1st grade

[@colinjackson7177]

Lorraine kelly such a beautiful woman great legs and haircut 100 such a blast from the past.

[@DavidAndrewsPEC]

Pretty damn good!

[@DavidAndrewsPEC]

Actually - this was my favourite song of theirs!

[@Twirlyhead]

Good performance from the old boys. I had to categorise Pelican West on eBay a while back and I ummed and rrred a bit over whether it was New Wave or 80s Pop eventually settling on 80s Pop but if there had been a category for New Wave-Pop I would have used it.

[@DeanoTheSaxman]

Wonder where Phil Smith the original sax player has gone .. ? Rumor has it that he is now a music instructor @ Chichester Uni ... ?

[@TEGamer]

Voice hasn’t aged as much as other singers

[@tonyhodgetts8360]

OMG.......

[@Springamatul]

30 yerrrrrrrrrrrs sacarry lol.

[@mattpemberton4746]

probably one of the best looking guys in pop in the 80's, but as we can see looks fade to be honest, I always thought he was gay or maybe the truth is I wished he was thanks for the wet dreams Nick

[@summerteeeth]

I had a massive (pre teen) crush on the him, back in the H100 days. He's about 50 here, still looks good. I like this version of Fantastic Day.

[@louisavevers9709]

wow , didnt recognise nick

[@duffbaker9554]

@ BetNoire: Normal is the new weird these days, didn't you know that?

[@ajones747]

good luck to them, I guess.

[@hubertvale5132]

Great stuff, a shame Nick couldn’t handle the star trip.

[@dirkbogarde44]

Where did they get those backing singers from ? Could have least got some attractive chicks.

[@jontyarnold8522]

They don’t half talk shit on tv. This band had one album,they were not the soundtrack of the 80s...

[@barrygaynor1025]

They sound great.