THE METEORS. On Channel 4. 1980

P. Paul Fenech 80's Interview

[@adrianbryan5941]

My life changed from '83 discovering The Meteors. It was all rockabilly stuff The Jets, The Stray Cats, 1950s american rockabilly...and then The Meteors smacked me between the eyes!!! I was only 14 at the time, but wow...i loved it!!!! It beat all all the shit '80s music my mates were listening to!

[@nodge1000]

this is from a weekly programme called 'Whatever You Want'...filmed on CH4 in 82/3 and all live gigs were filmed from Briixton Ace. I remember cos I recorded them all on vhs! (Damned, Meteors, Spear of Destiny, Atilla the Stockbroker...)

[@srr3377]

Also did a show called whatever you didn’t get which was unshown tracks from whatever you want 22:00 C4. Bands that were on ANWL The Damned The Meteors SDC Redskins Dead Kennedys ✌🏻👍🏻

[@MrRags59]

I dont know you personally but would like to thank you for 32 years of your music friends and women come and go but The M3T3ORS have always been there and I have loved every single tune you have done with the band as well as your solo stuff long may you continue !!!! cheers

[@charliegutierrez8728]

You want to piss off Paul? Remind him that he said he dont call his music psychobilly. Haha good stuff.

[@stephensnelling3664]

This would have been late 82 at the London Brixton Fridge i was at this gig which i thought was awesome.

[@KeironP1]

I'm not even going to answer that. I've loved you guys for 28 years all the way down here in AUS....don't destroy it for me.

[@Pacquaio]

love the line about 'basically I'm a horrible person' great clip

[@MRROCKET23]

It couldn't be from 1980, Channel 4 didn't start until 1982.

[@moparlarsson]

The M3t3ors from 1980 is all about Teenagers from outer space and Radioactive kids.. this is 86 or later crap! No Nigel No M3t3ors!

[@MikeAndrewasRobbie]

Was 83 i think, i was in hospital and they put it on in the ward for me, about 11 at night i think 😂

[@donatoienzi9775]

That's how its done ✔️

[@andysandel9325]

BRILLIANT 100% PURE GENIUS LIVE CLASSIC PSYCHOBILLY UNSPOILT 😎🔗🔒❤🐀

[@scootjohn777]

Reminds me of the scooter rallies in the 80's and slam dancing,

[@koont666]

Fuck me that's my old tattooist in Fulham Terry McLaren 🍀🇬🇧👍

[@tonylynch9878]

Thanks mate yer dain aw ae us a service up loading this only seen it before thanks to ma legend of a big bro taping it after night of the long knives

[@KeironP1]

Awesome!! Thanks for sharing!! Top quality, I wish there was other stuff of the meteors from back in the early days of the same quality!! I've been following them since '85 when I came across "Teenagers From Outet Space" on vinyl in a record shop down here in Oz. Voodoo Rythm will always be my favorite. Oh...& @pervykitten by the way.... "I'm a horrible person".....doesn't mean he was unhappy....duh!

[@RaymondCumiskey]

Been into this since1980 now 57 man and boy. Still the greatest band ever o t m a p p

[@mariomanzano8283]

Fucking meteors true fuckin psycobilly cheers from Texas

[@zerk666]

Hats off to The Meteors for making sure every fucking turd hates them. I've never came across another band that can do that... pretty fucking amazing. OTMAPP

[@mmk749]

Danke!

[@venostar]

thanx for sharing!

[@ZeldaFitz]

It was originally called Punk a Billy then Psycho Billy

[@jeffmurray6219]

Nigel always said it was psychabilly 🎉

[@johnmusk7007]

Only the meteors are pure psychobilly Hold on get my coat Joking apart love the band 15 year old picked up in heaven early 80’s never looked back

[@HepCatmobile]

Great clip but this was aired in 1982 not 1980,I know that because that's when I saw it & when Chanel 4 began.

[@MidnightManiax]

fuck it, the meteors are still the best fuckin' band in the world....thy are all about rock'n'roll...they dont give fuck about anybody, they just play pure psychobilly and thats all

[@andysmith8890]

Great 👍

[@paulfenechthemeteors1547]

whats it gotta do wiv you ?

[@andysmith8890]

Paul thanks for everything mate 👍

[@mokumskinfranky5233]

1980? Must have been a few years later...

[@rockmanunited]

u r right

[@ThePsychoFish]

think it was 1983

[@malcolmscally1533]

please reunite and redo the old stuff :)

[@gilesbrett9586]

whatever happened to rj pathetic ?

[@PooleyX]

Channel 4 didn't exist in 1980.

[@ZeldaFitz]

Channel 4 wasn’t around in 1980

[@cliffordbarlow9618]

Bloooody wickd

[@kevcaratacus9428]

Polecats lol not even on the same planet as the meteors. Remember someone giving timmy polecat acid b4 he went on stage at clarendon arms lolol so funny

[@herbert9241]

I was mad about both bands but from the perspective of an old git the Meteors' songs stand up better. I prefer the Meteors playing their own songs and I prefer the Polecats' '50s rockabilly covers. Don't leave us dangling, Kev - how about a few anecdotes about Polecat on acid?

[@kevcaratacus9428]

@@herbert9241 I'm old too mate , I'm still a big kid at heart but my body is old lol We all knew each other from 70s rockabilly clubs , poor timmy polecat, he was a good lad , they had a gig in Hammersmith * dingwalls above the clarendon arms Someone put acid in his drink After a song or two he stopped singing and playing looking at his guitar like he'd never seen one before , Boz and the others didn't know about it , he had to stop he was really out of it . It's hard to explain fully its one of those things you had to see .. I wouldve chopped their hands off if anyone did that to me . I travelled with the meteors around Britain and most of Europe for 2 years. Great years & then another couple of years with the guana batz, I was really good mates with them all . Time goes so fast. :)

[@herbert9241]

@@kevcaratacus9428 - To be fair, you did a good job of putting over the funny side of that drink-spiking incident - although of course it was out of order, I agree. Attending Meteors gigs full time would have been my wet dream as a 14-year-old kid but I could barely muster the fare out of Devon, let alone navigate the country at large and find venues. Although I suppose I wasn't averse to asking anyone for directions, as I did some kindly old fella in full muslim garb when I landed in Hitchin for my first Meteors gig, 1983, aged 16. The music had gone a bit oi by then but they still played a great live set and it was definitely a spiritual experience for me. Further bolstered a couple of years later when I was chatting to one of the Meteors' crew outside the Clarendon Hotel, Hammersmith, and learned that Hitchin Regal was where they recorded 'Graveyard Stomp' and 'Radioactive Kid'. Hitchin Regal and Hammersmith Broadway both churned into the ground since then. Being, as I perceived it, the first band to play the same type of music as the Meteors, the Batz fell bang in the middle of my radar. I'll still take the first EP over anything else they've done. First time I saw them was when they headlined the gig which was recorded for the first Klub Foot LP. Credit where due, Restless blew them away. No disgrace in that; Restless pretty much left everyone standing for live performance. My opinion, of course. King Kurt ... disappointed musically but made up for it with their relentless humour. Faculty for hilarity should never be underestimated. Great times, Kev. We're still thinking about it in the twilight of our dotage. I still recall my dear, departed mother knocking me up my favourite spaghetti bolognese on toast before I ventured out for a rather more local Meteors gig on the back end of that tour. Spaghetti bolognese on toast - WTF was I thinking??

[@kevcaratacus9428]

@@herbert9241 83 , that's close to when left the meteors for the batz job ( i was guitar roadie) or 'technician" as roadies are called nowadays . Lol . Was Steve ( Ginge) still drummer at the hitching gig ? If he was I wouldve been there too. If he wasn't I wouldn't have been either . I loved my time with the meteors, but the last year or so their manager was really rinsing it We averaged 10 months ( Maybe more) out of a year on tour. From one end of Britain & back , getting back to hotel late & back on the road next morning. We did have some mad times especially abroad, In paris getting an armed police escort from venue to the hotel , Long story .. We even got thrown out of France once ,Le harvre , . Because the van was full of weapons.. The batz were up n coming & something different from meteors. They needed a proper drummer & I encountered ginge to join batz ( he was getting fed up playing non stop & batz payed him more money too) & the schedule was less manic. Lol king Kurt, yes your right they were all about the live show rather than albums made in a studio. We ( meteors) had a rivalry with kk, It was a laught but they didn't like it, I remember the lyceum We were both playing, I can't rem who was headline band , We'd just come back from Switzerland and kk dressing room was next door ,we blitzed their room with really powerful bangers ( we have nothing like that in England) They went crying to the promoter wanting him to call the old bill ... It ended up ok . ... I could go on forever but I've probably already sent you to sleep after reading tbis .

[@kevcaratacus9428]

@@herbert9241 btw I love spag boll on toast :)

[@henrivinkeles8288]

1980 😂

[@noestahechalamielparatuboca]

7:44 I don't give a fuck? XD