The Style Council - "Hotel Suburbia" - April 1983

The Style Council interview and performance of "Speak Like A Child" on Dutch VPRO TV "Hotel Suburbia", broadcast on 20th April 1983.

[@hofnerbassman737]

Wow !! Never seen this before - brilliant ! "Speak Like A Child" was a great debut single too.

[@charlesbull6188]

Tracie just fantastic she had a great voice ❤

[@mukkaspec3333]

Always fun and serious The Style Council.

[@PalestraItalia362]

TSC was an act of courage, as well as being beautiful.

[@iammicsholla1482]

Good lord, I’ve never seen this before. Thank you so much for uploading. I really enjoyed that!

[@bazilkush388]

So bizarre then just watching them making them do karaoke in front of them

[@arricammarques1955]

Make room for the tea break! Live vocals, Fab..

[@obugger]

Paul's Mum Ann serving!

[@simonchaddock3694]

And pauls dad john

[@Albert_Br]

This is brilliant ! So similar to how Flying Nun did videos kzbin.info/www/bejne/hmqZlHmBmZmcqLs

[@mauricerevelle8451]

Brilliant..I loved that...Put a smile on my face..

[@arejay00]

Even here. That voice.

[@m.printes6123]

I love this song, from Brasil.

[@matkozuric7337]

The most brilliant interview and performance combo of anyone, ever.

[@ajs41]

Love the live vocals. I thought it was going to be miming.

[@DaveLL500]

I just graduated university at the time. Took me 40 years to see this but better late than never. Thank you for posting!

[@leslieleaming9388]

This was awesome! Brilliant silliness!

[@StonefieldJim4]

Cool. Never seen this before. Thanks.

[@ilikemusic76]

This is so great to see! I love Weller in this time of period cause he dares to do something really new which he isn‘t really sure about at that time.

[@danielpalmersofficial]

I’ve never seen this, but wow!! ✌️😗

[@mikecheaure9646]

I LOVED THE STYLE COUNCIL IN THE 80'S!

[@anne-marieedwards2909]

TSC always make me smile

[@renshawbarker7093]

Brillant! Weller at his playful best!

[@funksoulbrother3620]

lovely stuff, thanks for uploading

[@Andy-Robus]

only when you look at these programmes later on in life do you feel they were such amateurish interviews back in the day. But we would have loved it at the time . loved a load of the Style Council songs. They were a great group.

[@hans6266]

brilliant. never seen before

[@YanikOlsen]

Awesome! Thanks for uploading. Subbed :)

[@dt1965]

Gold! Nice one.

[@RichRoome]

That turquoise crew neck was a star in its own right

[@katebutcher4444]

Hahaha that's Ann Weller bringing the tea in!

[@ellarson1]

Well, that made me smile. Well worth skipping the interview.

[@leftynotliberal]

+1 for the FEBO shot.

[@HaraldoEll-lk7ul]

Still so pretty good.❤

[@kevinfitzsimons41]

Anyone got the Paul Weller diet from 1983? Man that dude is slim and trim!!! 😅

[@hughhull2646]

1 57 , that thing he used to do with his head at that time Like a nervous twitch

[@jameshodgkins559]

No bosses Billy Hunt around, well do but not for long 👌

[@user-pp1on4fk7d]

That chewing gum must of been really good

[@aroache8897]

Bonkers! 😂😂😂

[@pablobrad100]

Who was Claudia?

[@Granto-ni9qw]

Think that was Tracy the house that jack built ??

[@Tcoldsteel]

He says so in the interview 👍🏻

[@Granto-ni9qw]

@@Tcoldsteel I never watched it all

[@shaunw9270]

Tracie Young

[@nsw2037]

@@Granto-ni9qw who's the bassist ?

[@Granto-ni9qw]

@@nsw2037 no idea was not in to them

[@Tcoldsteel]

That was silly

[@Edward1312]

Bizarre its like bad karaoke!

[@mgtowsoldier8673]

Fffffff , Ffffff, chris waddle........Going Underground....

[@johnlewis19a]

England. Only England were affected by the Falklands War. Does my head in "back in Ingerlund" ffs

[@normandavidtidiman9918]

I think English,or British young people are far from politically unaware,certainly then,just they didn’t follow Mr PW and his leftist manifesto at the time. I think Weller was very naive politically (as well as a poor communicator despite being a great songwriter).

[@nickterrett6613]

yip..and he admitted it himself..he regretted getting into the politics of it all..he's at his best when he lets the music do the talking.

[@jonteunon2977]

@@nickterrett6613Really? Eton Rifles and Going Underground are two of the best ever “political songs”. The fact The Daily Mail really hated the former was just a bonus. Without their non-party political edge The Jam wouldn’t have been half the band they were!

[@SmartCookie2022]

@@jonteunon2977 Eton Rifles was a nice ditty for the time but long forgotten now. I much prefered the Style Council's breezy summer tunes to his brash wannabe Kinks sound.

[@jonteunon2977]

@@SmartCookie2022 you’re entitled to your own tastes of course but Eton Rifles is better remembered today than anything by the Style Council! Moreover, while Weller was indeed influenced by the Kinks when in The Jam you picked a song that wasn’t and he was also influenced by among other The Beatles, The Who, The Small Faces, The Clash and as heard on Sound Affects the post punk of Joy Division and Gang of Four. To describe Eton Rifles as either “wannabe Kinks” or for that matter a “ditty” is so wide of the mark as to not even qualify as a caricature! Also it has to be pointed out that The Kinks are one of the best ever bands and more famous than Weller’s second band!

[@bawsack69]

Same font as Neighbours