thompson twins ― love on your side (the tube 1983) live

[@ProfessorGTravel]

I had one goal in high school - to have Tom Bailey’s hair.

[@frontsidegrind]

Haha! I can relate!

[@christiantam9789]

ditto! I tried. My headmaster made me cut my hair"

[@petercarrington948]

One cool haircut!

[@bobtis]

And looks. Great looking guy

[@carlosserrano3985]

Borris Williams on drums, he was using a Simmons SDSV and a Movement Percussion Computer with the TT, great drummer!

[@ERICF66]

Yes! Boris is/was an awesome drummer! Didn’t see him with TT but definitely saw him during his time with The Cure! He was the best drummer they ever had!!🥁🥁🥁🔥🔥👊🏽😁👍🏽🎶

[@discodave6153]

Ah I thought it was him from the Cure! Hard to play an SDSV live. Pads very hard and sometime triggering was a bit chaotic.

[@carlosserrano3985]

@@discodave6153 True, the early SDSV pads were really hard but I saw another TT concert where he upgraded the pads with the mark III pads, those have the rubber playing surface and I think he added the SDS-7 brain along with the Movement Computer. I got those early SDSV pads in red color.

[@bobtis]

Advanced for 1983

[@carlosserrano3985]

@@bobtis Yes, very advanced for the time the Movement Percussion Computer is a hybrid drum machine, it has analog and digital sounds plus trigger inputs for pads and that he was using live, TT use the Movement in their first albums so I guess they want the same sounds live. Kajagoogoo use basically the same thing live in 1983 too.

[@mrmeerkat1096]

It's 4.30 am and I can't sleep, and I have this song in my head. So I have put it on but I wanted to hear it live, and here it is. Brilliant.

[@bobtis]

I think this is the best You Tube version. It is taped really well for 1983. I love these guys. I love Currie she is so cool.

[@JohnArchbell]

What a fantastic time this was. This was when (really) great music peaked. 1983/4 ❤

[@bobtis]

What a great video. These guys were great. Bailey was an artist. Probably still is. Alana love her

[@cesararmandogameros184]

The greath Boris Williams from The Cure on the drums!

[@cnfuzz]

Lots of tape tracks running

[@soarornor]

Boris on drums!

[@stevecharno512]

Brilliant clip! Who'd've thought Joe Leeway would go on to a long and successful career on TV as one of the main characters in Red Dwarf. If only...

[@atheistleopard618]

TT and tff great bands

[@DIETRICHCICCONE]

I need those sunglasses!!

[@arricammarques1955]

Glacier glasses & analog synths = Very 1980s.

[@MrCijuciju]

what a BAAADAAAAASSSSS SOOOOONGGGGGG❤❤❤❤❤

[@halenbud]

I've bought you sentimental roses But you gave them all away I've played you all my favorite records Then we spent the night in talking, talking all the time... You sent me home I was so surprised to find that after all It doesn't hurt to be alone

[@VictorAtomic]

LOVE the girl up front going wild for them!

[@annameenaz52]

freakin live unbeliveable

[@Latexhandske]

Some did live performance back in the days ❤

[@petercarrington948]

Unfortunately sounds like a backing track or someone behind the scenes.

[@bobtis]

Who is the Bass player here he is fucking great. Boy they sound great. I love watching Currie play she is just awesome. Song is a machine. One of the best songs of the 1980's

[@776jamie]

Andrew Bodnar I think. Watching him in this made me run out and buy a bass guitar lol.

[@user-fp5vl6ex2d]

This is a good but very curious performance - it IS live but they seem to be trying to hide that fact. The vocal is live but Joe Leeway is only playing music in his imagination and Alana is doing next to nothing. The drummer is visible and clearly playing but they have hidden 2 keyboard players (also providing backing vocals) and the bass payer behind a screen for no apparent reason and these guys are actually playing.

[@JohnArchbell]

Don’t look to deep into it. Alannah has always done what she always does. She’s a percussionist and backing vocalist. Isn’t that enough? This song has one of the greatest intros ever. I absolutely love it. What you should be questioning is the dire audience. I wish they could hear me shout at them, asking them if they only knew what a great year 1983 was for music! Rap boy rap!

[@sergioenriquesantibanezchi9005]

Chile 🇨🇱 excelente 👏👍

[@richardrichard5409]

Wow, a decent quality version, thanks for the upload. I wouldn't want to be the guy on the Stingray bass playing that repetitive line😉

[@arees6653]

Andrew Bodnar is the one behind the screen .

[@ERICF66]

I would be too happy to be playing bass for The Thompson Twins!! He’s an excellent bassist and their songs are fun to play!!🔊🔊🎶🎶🔥😁👊🏽👍🏽

[@MRPERCYJOEL]

Boris Williams in the Drums???

[@Pleasure_Victim]

Yes, it is. 😊

[@ERICF66]

Later to join The Cure in time for The Head On The Door record. IMO he was the best drummer The Cure ever had! He’s awesome!!🥁🥁🥁🔥🔥🎶😁👍🏽👊🏽

[@sandclann]

Tom Bailey is the best!

[@Exmirror]

I heard that Joe took synth lessons from Fletch.

[@petercarrington948]

Ha ha, so true my friend 😂😂😂and hope the camera is not on your hands! I saw one live concert video where he actually played some keys on the Sequencial T8 to make sure make sure it was muted first before the song began.😊 Can somebody tell Joe that the keyboard is not a percussion instrument.

[@FrancoJerol]

👍👍

[@petercarrington948]

NI love Thompson Twins, but what exactly is Joe Leeway doing with that synth?🤔🤔🤔 Miming very badly!

[@14rnr]

I'm not sure what Joe was doing with that Prophet 5 but he sure as hell wasn't making any sounds with it.

[@petercarrington948]

Checking it was muted beforehand 😂😂

[@FrankNFurter1000]

You can actually hear that he is marking sounds with it, but very faintly. There is a pulsing sound but the LFO is slightly off tempo from the rest of the track.

[@bobtis]

What were the people in the booth doing?

[@BreconWalsh]

A take 4 TV.

[@burns47]

At 1.18 Joe has the microphone in its stand, then he is holding it in is hand, then it is back in the stand. Was this recorded in one take?

[@MISTYEYED.]

Not only that. The music doesn’t go with the synthesizer playing🤷🏾‍♂️.

[@paulschilling2996]

Live? Not so much. Leeway isn’t even trying to mime the keyboard parts

[@Engelbird]

Go Boris

[@iamyourfuture808]

WTF is the keyboard player supposed to be playing? somebody better explain it ain't connected

[@NOWtheband]

He's miming / it's not connected. :-)

[@anthonybaird1451]

Makes Andy Fletcher of Depeche look like Mozart. :-)

[@donherson]

Behind the stage are the.real keyboard and synth musicians...and bass player guy...

[@VictorAtomic]

I didnt notice the extra band in the back!

[@MISTYEYED.]

I was saying what the fuck too. Somethings off here.

[@flexx7543]

So 80s that...who needs a time machine anyway?!?

[@RussellFineArt]

Funny, Joe's keyboard is turned off and Tom and Alana are shaking pointless widgets. LOVE the Twins, but this "live" performance is a lip-sync performance.

[@petercarrington948]

Agree, it does sound like a backing track. And I too am long term fan. I wish Joe had not tried to bluff keyboard playing (badly) it's so obvious.

[@mancuniancandidatem]

I think the drums, timbales and lead vocal is live and everything else is on tape.

[@bobtis]

Bass is live 4 sure.

[@blackstter6317]

Tom Bailey surrounded by 4 wally's dicking about.

[@edk4449]

Wow, what a dead audience!