The Primitives Crash Friday Night Live 18/03/88

The Primitives Crash Friday Night Live Broadcast On Channel 4 18/03/88

[@gimu.gilmarmonte]

This is what perfect pop sounds like. Perfection.

[@mariodejesusespinosaramire6429]

New wave

[@twincrystals]

truly such a gorgeous song

[@michpackfan]

Wow!!! Sounds just like the record! Sign of a good band

[@rockerchefdave]

Great live version of this. Every band back then did the lip sync thing for these shows with the exception of a few. Good to see they were one of the few. Love this song.

[@mattyo71]

She’s singing live, but the band is miming though. Look at Paul’s hands at 1:17 and other parts while listening to the music. It likely wasn’t their choice, nor other bands. I don’t know any musician would rather mime thank play live. It’s just something shows forced bands to do back then. Often with unexpected results. See Nirvana on Top of the Pops or Muse on an Italian TV show.

[@TouringFunkBand1]

@@mattyo71 I was wondering how the clean guitar part was playing over the distorted palm muted part lol

[@cathybannister1311]

@@TouringFunkBand1 read this comment right as it happened lol.

[@VanielDeeform]

Love this song and the group are ace too, still agree with the others of it not being completely live. This female fronted band who had a debut in 1988 as well, playing this same TV show. And are all clearly playing live. Even the brief piano parts in the song were likely played by their manager Dave Balfe behind the stage, because before he managed Strawberry Switchblade he played keyboards on A Tear Drop Explodes and Echo & The Bunnymen debuts kzbin.info/www/bejne/l2HUoXScjb6SaKM

[@LULUBELLEIII]

Clearly they had the full unedited backing track to play along with. There are some subtle differences in the music - a little fuzz bass here and there. Classic song.

[@marcelblum7226]

Que buena canción atemporal la escuché en los 80 y ahora 2022 la sigo tocando en mi bajo y Tracy sigue bella y cantando desde chile Marcelo blum

[@ant9226]

She looks pretty asf

[@LuisMiguelGarciaTorres]

80s were good

[@mrpooroldme]

I never new this band, but I like it, it reminds me a bit of The Tourists and Blondie.

[@GAMES.IDEAS.FUN123]

Graduated high school in 1986, this is my youth! I miss the 80’s

[@172Break]

I saw them the next night at Glasgow School of Art - great gig!

[@ladislaodiezmenchaca8622]

Primitivosssssss we all gonnaaaaa crashhhhhhh .... The 80s rule

[@maestroh2986]

Bloody brilliant song, and Tracy is gorge with her Marilyn look

[@geozeo710]

A song that stands the test of time.

[@BaseballPlayer0]

Companion to Jane weidlin

[@matheussonicorlandi]

Gosh so these were the 80's? Tracy Tracy is probably the most beautiful women ever, surely the most beautiful female Rockstar I've ever saw

[@foskco87]

She would have been 20 years old here!

[@laxeystu8096]

Great video

[@vicentepalau2695]

Vi un concierto en sala Zeleste de Barcelona cuando yo tenia 21 años Espectacular Ahora yo tengo 55 y aun me suena mejor

[@andrewkang7157]

RIP Steve Dullaghan (2009) He will always be better than the bassist they currently have.

[@JordanBritt]

Who's the guitarist in the video?

[@robertquant1122]

Paul court the song writer for the band and guitar 🎸 player

[@MotorsportMadnessYT]

Love this, omg 😍

[@zephyrsky__]

She's got that Marilyn Monroe eye make-up on point

[@marks2731]

I was listening to this, 17, just passed my driving test, driving. I rear-ended a lorry. I should have slowed down... I crashed.

[@nadafro3116]

Tragic! 🤣

[@TheAlps36]

Here you go, you're gonna pass Please slow down you're gonna crash

[@curly_wyn]

Both a red and yellow one! 😉

[@asdrubaliramsanchez393]

Que hermosa era tracye

[@raygarcia7629]

She sounds good live.

[@wanneske1969]

Ever been to a real concert, like PJ Harvey or Heather Nova ??? I'm seeing them live later on and I fear it will be crap live, as it wasn"t even good 30 years ago

[@wanneske1969]

It was actually not that bad but I didn't know most songs.

[@vasileporojan8606]

Faboulous!

[@emmasayers7576]

There's a cool new display dedicated to The Primitives at the Coventry Music Museum.

[@bouviamusic3566]

Dumb and dumber brought me here she’s giving me Marilyn Monroe vibes

[@padraigsisk4057]

Tracy, Tracy

[@atlasking6110]

Women in the 80s were so HOT!

[@thomas79marshall]

Yes feminism ruined everything.

[@zephyrsky__]

@@thomas79marshall dumb ass

[@sallycater8555]

Lovex the 80s

[@patcollins1779]

Only bad thing about this song is ends too soon

[@Jason-Scott]

❤️❤️❤️❤️🤪

[@PrinceDecember]

en esos tiempos todos querian tener el LOOK de marilim monroe

[@andreyt22]

El loock .....Ella se vestia como Doris Day ya que ella lo admiraba mucho

[@josueaguirre9714]

Tiene su rostro parecido a Britney Spearce

[@asdrubaliramsanchez393]

The primitives

[@jairsantos9467]

Eu amo essa banda de paixão mas, meu Deus, Tracy, minha musa, como você canta mal!!! ❤❤❤❤❤

[@startervisions]

punk rock

[@PaulBriden]

Rubbish

[@startervisions]

@@PaulBriden noise pop punk

[@lettoreentusiasta9374]

not punk, but 3-chord riff has some punk flavour....sort of Smiths with some melodic punk

[@mariodejesusespinosaramire6429]

New wave o Post punk

[@VyperVenom]

Holy crap! A band that actually performs live without a backing track or lip synching? Imagine that!

[@Weldoefred]

This is great music in memeory of the ninety's.

[@pobstrel]

Eighties. This single came out in 1988.

[@winstrola.d3282]

She was 35.

[@VendPrekmurec]

WOW . I am 35 and I feel old as fuck

[@TheGrandmasterMan]

No she wasnt. She was born in 1967 I think. So she would be about 21 here.

[@Horizon344]

I remember seeing this live in 1988, & how stroppily miserable Cattell looked the second the performance was over & she thought the cameras were gone. It created a bad impression about the act which adversely affected my view of them at the time as a teenager, & I preferred the Darling Buds - whose singer Andrea Lewis seemed a happier girl. However with Cattell I realise now it can't have been much fun for a young woman singing the same songs in repetition for months thru lots of rough small club venues. Funny how these small inconsequential things stay with you all these years. It was a shame that both the Prims & DB's, which seemed to have such good prospects at this time, were gone only a couple of years after this.

[@Shezzer47]

Were you at this particular show?

[@Horizon344]

@@Shezzer47 yes

[@Shezzer47]

@@Horizon344 did she look miserable the whole time

[@Horizon344]

@@Shezzer47 When this performance was over, & before it started yes. She had a bit of a reputation for it on the gig circuit also, it didn't do the band any favours in its commercial development as an act.

[@Shezzer47]

@@Horizon344 that's a shame but I can see how singing the same song repeatedly would get dull

[@SeptemberDude]

Is it me or I'm getting a Blondie vibe

[@ok2760]

The drummer's a bit of a dish!

[@robsol123]

Bet he pulled a few birds back in the day 😎💪☀️

[@TheMartinkaleb]

Playback but no the voices

[@humiut2041]

It is live, the dynamics of the instruments are heard, but the rhythmic guitar is played by some guitarist off stage.

[@powerpopaholic876]

@@humiut2041 that explains it. Def 2 gtrs

[@ChubbyChecker182]

And soon after this performance Nicola Sturgeon left pop music behind, stopped dying her hair, and joined the SNP

[@verydirtyflow]

Cracking wee guy, never shat it out a 50 50

[@BaseballPlayer0]

Move over blondie, they’re better

[@cdchantler]

Great tune. Singer can’t sing too good live though ...

[@simonboyes2550]

I thought it was better than I expected tbh

[@narcopsy]

Her singing is great, not bad at all!

[@laxeystu8096]

Why does the actual record vocal sound so good?

[@powerpopaholic876]

@@laxeystu8096 PRODUCTION. Layers. Etc

[@spearson1793]

Yea I've noticed she's sometimes a bit off key too. It takes nothing away from their songwriting talent tho. Outstanding band.

[@verydirtyflow]

More people like Osama bin Laden than Ben Elton, as Osama bin Laden at least lived his life to a consistent set of ethical principles

[@benjamingoldmanmoshiachben5388]

She seems bored...as if she would rather be anywhere else than singing a one-hit wonder of a song that was at the Top of the Charts. I'm pretty sure that this performance just might clear up any confusion as to why the Primitives had disappeared from the Pop radar by the end of the early 1990s. "Crash"-how fitting a title!

[@bobcatdriver6930]

benjamin goldmanmoshiachbenyosef i would take this over the crap of today any day of the week, it’s a good song and she can look as bored as she wants

[@atlasking6110]

you seem nice

[@andrewkang7157]

All members apart from the drummer don’t seem to show much emotion

[@suveran11]

That's their persona.Find Inbetweener by Sleeper.

[@greyfox4577]

Wasn't that the case with a lot of British bands in the 80's displaying a distaste at something while performing awesome songs?