SPECIMEN 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang' (old video-clip) Batcave club pioneers

Specimen 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang'. Specimen were the glam horror post-punk band, most known for launching the 'Batcave' club in London around 1982. The club became a fertile dark arts club where interesting artists of the time would perform to the nightlife in-crowd. It was the new hip post-punk scene - only in retrospect tagged 'goth'.
They signed to London Records, first releasing a now rare Batcave compilation (Test Dept, Patti Palladin, Brilliant, etc) and some singles which became a mini-album on Sire in USA. But the success of the club maybe was a distraction. Later they had releases on Flicknife.
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[@RustyEgan]

I signed them and put them in Trident Studios, we brought Seymore Stein to see them at St Albans City Hall and we put the EP together. The Club was there Idea to help finance rehearsals.... It was a great time and I loved there songs , style and along with Killing Joke and some Dark rock bands it was a great time...

[@crashvelvet]

+Rusty Egan Killing Joke! Help me Now - Awesome! What great great memories for you! Love!

[@clintbrannan9510]

Saw them twice in 84 or 5 in mi a miami and Gainesville.What a show.

[@clintbrannan9510]

Rusty Egan Thanks so much they are aces top shelf and a very good bunch of lads.

[@cxcmb]

thank you! i bought the Batastrophe ep when i was 15 (around the time it came out. i still listen to it when the mood strikes.

[@Escape_From_UK]

I’d forgotten just how Goth they were, and Ollie really was a great frontman. One of the few bands I never saw, I have this on glorious vinyl. A great trip back to the Gossips memory lane

[@julietamautone8110]

Kiss kiss bang bang, still a better love story than Twilight

[@eldritch1985]

I like this song and video. I love guys in makeup. Guys wearing massacre are so gorgeous. The video kind of reminds me of the concert scene on 1982's "Alone in the Dark" (really good horror/psychological thriller movie) when Dr. Potter, his way cool sister Toni, and his wife are listening to the song "Chop up Your Mother"!

[@thisismyhappening]

I am so happy to have stumbled on tis classic. I have owned the record forever, but never saw a video prior to this. Ahh technology.

[@HydromelRaptor]

This is what is wonderful about KZbin :) you can discover great old songs

[@Muzerotic]

My all-time fav song!

[@maryt82003]

Que recuerdos......época de colegio......vivan los 80's!!!

[@delicatedecayexploration7338]

I’ll never forget these guys. There I was a girl living in a hick town in Georgia and no one got me.

[@doctorgonzo]

damn, havent heard this song in like 6 years! thanks for uploading!

[@bolmsp]

nice !!!!! ty

[@Lilaeth]

@aragorn1780 I have to admit I don't know many current Goths but I get the feeling/impression they're closer to what I would call Emo than we were. But, as ever, the point of Goth was/is to do/wear what makes you happy. Even while you pose and look miserable! ;-))

[@BeeDeeMusik]

Nice work!

[@Socialantithesis]

Well said...

[@aragorn1780]

@Lilaeth hmm, so many questions.... for one thing, how does the old '82 batcave scene compare to the modern day explosion that it came to?

[@gothcbba3292]

Cool!

[@tsanityassasin]

they just made history in darle music, It is just that...

[@ccm800]

Gosh I used to look like that

[@SeanMcNerney]

Dude quit trying to get my shoe seriously ! 🤪👍

[@gabrielalgusto4682]

2019 baby

[@PestileNCe85]

Specimen is like a batcave kind of band, sorta like deathrock, but more like, wel this, haha. and deathrock isn't only from L.A. most is from UK

[@HorrorPunksUnite]

B.e.a. Utiful

[@Shadowsadist]

Specimen has STYLE! -Had- style...

[@always_weltschmerz]

OMG SO OUTRAGEOUS XD

[@ScarlettRoberts]

HAVE 1.000 OF NAMES! I JUST CALLED GOOD MUSIC!

[@divadestructionx]

@SKOTP69 I know! They are fucking AMAZING and one who says Marylyn Mason isn't a poser is in denial.

[@jaquelinefusinello7692]

q loucuraaaa

[@kimberly161]

Well I don't think that children rebel against their parents, just that parents don't always agree with what the children do. If the parents listened to gothic rock as the children were growing up, they would have an apriciation for it. An apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

[@xvideoxkidx]

Mmm. Singer looks like Frankie. Acts like him too! ;)

[@LincolnSixEch0]

glam horror post punk? WTF, death rock, gothic rock, horror punk, post punk, glam horror post punk hahaha very funny xD!!!

[@SaraaRocks]

OLD PEOPLE USE THE INTERNET??

[@cv8048]

SaraaRocks yeah so do dumb fucks

[@bossbaby7068]

@@cv8048 damn!

[@stingme88x]

this hott..

[@alexmarques7380]

É nois aqui é Corinthians 👻 Brasil

[@dfsdfsdfsdffsd]

can someone elaborate on if this vid counts as porn, and what is this song about...? Not that it isn't epic, because it is epic.

[@tertommy]

I don't get it.

[@johnchristian1545]

fern Haloo Then it can't be explained to you

[@tertommy]

John Christian Well I never.

[@johnchristian1545]

perhaps that is why you don't get it.

[@tertommy]

John Christian been faced I guess

[@mc17strat]

I know you are a big Bon Jovi fan, but rest assured, there is life outside of Jersey and your job at the car wash. Might want to stop kissing your sister and explore the world outside.

[@vampyresgraveyard3307]

R.I.P olli wisdom leader singer of specimen.

[@jazzincurtis_9995]

🦇🦇🖤

[@lynettepaulsen7119]

I remember meeting them at Vinyl Solution in San Mateo. Batastrophe was one of my favorite albums.

[@EndingSummerwithRalph]

Uploaded in 2006, one of the pioneer KZbin posts, LOL.

[@clintbrannan9510]

Sailordude2012 They played this video in every goth club through the 80s

[@junglerecords]

The first video we uploaded was NFD kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXnTiWuve62prtE on March 29 2006, 13 months after KZbin launched. Four others came before this Specimen clip (Fields of the Nephilim, Cuddly Toys, Wasted Youth & Sigue Sigue Sputnik), and this went up in October, 10 days after KZbin was acquired by Google. There was a life before KZbin!

[@problemchild799]

R.I.P. Olli Wisdom

[@josephwood5500]

Went to see Christian Death at a hotel on skid row in DTLA - - - and then... Specimen came on, and it became one of those nights that takes you into another dimension. Top five club gigs of all time.

[@HeyzDexy]

I wish i was alive back then in the 80's to see them live ):

[@Squeaky1423]

Where's Dr. Frank-n-Furter?! I used to listen to this LP in high school, it rocked. I had no idea they looked quite this theatrical. Love this song. "Hear THIS! Bang bang!"

[@Lilaeth]

Wow - this takes me back - used to hang out with Ollie at the Embassy in ye olden days!

[@mc17strat]

God I loved this band. They had an EP in the states that I bought and played the hell out of it. I wouldn't say I was into what become known as goth, but I did listen to 45 Grave and Bauhaus. These guys had a lot better pop sound. Loved the aoustic in Returning from a Journey.

[@carmilla2667]

Olli looks like Frank N Furter here

[@artsyandria7992]

That’s how you know it’s real music lmao

[@cosmicrust9715]

GOTH-GLAM At ITS BEST😍 LOVE LOVE😈

[@damianmann]

You think they were on drugs? Very druggy...even without the drugs

[@SeanMcNerney]

The Rocky horror picture show all over me thank you 🤪

[@Tsukijinartist]

My dad was into a lot of the music, never really the aesthetics, but he got me into it. Even when I was really little I used to love Nick Cave. I still do, though that is only a start. I agree with kimberly161 for the most part.

[@6660blackmetal]

esto es lo que el batcave en realidad es genial esta cancion

[@robotsmakesushi]

First mention of 'post-punk' I saw in print was a Rolling Stone review of PiL's 'Paris au Printemps' plus JD's 'Closer'... And some Wire review around the same time... I played the sh!t out of the Specimen on the radio back in the day...

[@ThomasSmith-uy7ms]

Wow , what great memories this brings back.

[@zepfree]

i had the record, it was bat shaped, i must have been about 5yrs old, i loved it

[@HassanKhanxxxx]

that is England currency note written on its fron with king before but ow with queen note released in 2016 SPECIMEN

[@robinthompson5026]

Never forget this from going to the "after hours" club......

[@melibita]

Danced to this at Disko Nekro last night. Good times.

[@Aventurero123]

R.I.P Olli Wisdom 🕸💀🦇

[@brutish123]

I'm wearing a grin about 3 miles wide right now. I used to dance my little punk chick ass off to this song, way back when. Always loved it, always will. Riding high on crashing waves of orgasmic nostalgia right now :-D (Yes, I'm that old. Shut up.)

[@acevamp]

You just gotta love that bass line, good shit man!

[@aragorn1780]

what I'd do to meet someone that was at the Batcave back in '82 and knew these people!

[@telltalemse]

hey can ihave the rest of the band members' names? if anyone knows them, if you dont know everyone, then the bassist? thanks... :)

[@IMERODBLOG]

someone thought they looks like Dr. Fran-k-futer

[@junglerecords]

He sure does!

[@junkstory8221]

R.I.P

[@Morbidia]

Amazing batcave :) great video and song really got some go :) modern day bands like h.i.m are so shite iam so glad the new Death rockers are bringing back the real music and what its all about with soul and meaning.

[@StephanieDK13]

Daniel Ashe

[@Psycochic08]

they sorta look like they could be a vampire cult. haha awesome

[@Johnniehaha]

KLEIN IS A FUCKING MASTER ON THAT GEETAR

J'adore....

[@damienomen669]

These guys, Alien Sex Fiend, Christian Death, 45 Grave and a host of others at the time were monumental in my high school years. For those that missed it, start with; Alien Sex Fiend; RIP (Blue Crumb Truck), Christian Death: Romeo’s Distress or Dogs or Deathwish, and Partytime by 45 Grave,

[@JustinOsbo]

@Hybrid933 Oh shit why even bring Manson up? He has nothing at all to do with the goth subculture and he has never claim to be goth. The fans of his are poser's though...

[@JustinOsbo]

@K1ll4Satan666 I'm sorry I didn't word that correctly I like some of Manon's music myself. I may have sounded like a asshole but im not Im really pretty nice.

[@slutinawhorinskaya]

ollie Wisdom is now doing Psytrance as SpaceTribe.

[@JustinOsbo]

Well I don't have any goth clubs where I live else I would love to go to a goth club sadly I am the only one where I live who is a fan of the music and understand's the goth subculture and lifestyle... I consider myself this genre because it's my number one Choice of music.

[@twitch6000]

@Hybrid933 Don't forget our queen siouxsie

[@Scotty-P]

Wow, I never thought I'd see any Specimen footage again!

[@alexbrusuelas5156]

WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO BATMAN'S CAVE!!!!!! ARE THOSE ROBIN'S FRIENDS????

[@disko.kommando]

Bat Cave, goth club in London :P

[@impalortimes3]

No.

[@uuxdidxy_8000]

We are the Jokers

[@theunknowngamer5477]

I have NEVER seen this.....

[@patriarc88]

Гей порно, не такое гейское как это видео.

[@DeSanKwuh]

awwww this is what i wanted to call my band- oh well 30 odd years late :P

[@edwardozzy]

Specimen eh TUDO

[@Frostypeanut]

For free? Hell yes.

[@dadatarantula]

oh no god, I never say : Manson is Goth, in fact Manson is not a goth-rock or post-punk music, but I don't understeand people who says what Manson is shit, because is not, the fact that it is not a goth music or something like this it does not turn it in a bad artist or muscician, people always boast of "goth old-school music" but I not have any problem with say: I like Siouxsie and I like the cure , manson and alien six fiend. This is a taboo or Stereotypes yuk

[@maryt82003]

Que recuerdos.......como si fuera ayer......vivan los 80's.

[@yldee]

I got the bat shaped vinyl single of this... haven't listened to it for 20 years... actually not that good really, sorry to say... been checking out all the old goth stuff on here, and this is not as good as the sex gangs , and alien sex fiend etc

[@ccm800]

@sethbaylock ROCK ON!

[@twitch6000]

@birinbirinbirin Well just to add on here. It would be south Florida where the good clubs are. The northern part of Florida is filled with poseurs and mallgoths.. I bet it is cause of all the hot topics... ugh...

[@jucadecoo]

Carai! E eu achava que eu era trash! Agora eu vi! E esse cara não na dúvida se tomava essa latinha de coca ou não? É que naquela época não existia coca zero!

[@darkChristian]

killer band.

[@kimberly161]

I agree, goth will never die. I'm sorry but the people that grew up with goth did have kids, so now the kids will carry it on.

[@ProrotypeProduction]

SPECIMEN new album 'WAKE THE DEAD' coming soon! Visit PLEDGEMUSIC for details, see NEW VIDEO, and get all the news!

[@Valcali2024]

Wow, I remember seeing these guys years ago what a great show!

[@ggforeigner]

ah ha, excellent, can't believe I just came across this !! Thanks ;}

[@Viewer4474]

I have this on vinyl...

[@chuckdrum]

Great beat and bass-line, but those tacky fishnet stockings is that where En Esch of KMFDM got ideas?

[@FaeFrau]

Anyone else had this track on bat-shaped vinyl? =o)

[@morella1983]

Uuuu video malisimo para las feminas.....me encanta Specimen...demasiado...em si.

[@Kieraganion]

@satanomarxist98 Well... L.A DID give us Death Rock. (: At about the same time period.

[@eromtihw]

I had the same record in 1985. Probably not worth much, but I sure would like to have it now.

[@SkeithLangley]

@klakette i totally thougght that too when i first saw the video lol