This week: music from New Order, and Bow Wow Wow, videos with a difference and more.
This week: music from Fad Gadget, dance from Dance Theatre Britannica, Police star Stewart Copeland as film-maker, Icehouse on video - and more.
Music and fun are provided by Mari Wilson and The Imaginations.
This week: music from Rip, Rig and Panic. mime from The Moving Picture Mime Company, dance from Illustration, and Pauline Black from The Selecter talks about her first acting role.
This week: reggae from King Sounds and the Israelites, video from Kraftwerk and Thomas Dolby, hat fashion from Stephen Jones and a glimpse into the private life of Eddie Tenpole.
This week: music from Bauhaus, Pete Shelley on video, dance from Sponooch, and more.
This week: music from The Diagram Brothers; video from Bruce Wooley ; Julian Temple talks about his latest film Comic Strip, and Lynn Seymour chats about her new role as teacher of dance.
This week: studio band Fire Engine, The Event Group dance from A Black Box, and a studio interview with Alice Cooper,
This week, music from Epsilon and the new video from Steve Strange and Visage.
This week: music from Killing Joke; a psychedelic night at the new London club, The Fridge; Billy Connolly speaks his mind; Sham 69 star, Jimmy Pursey , dances to a Stranglers track; Tony Blackburn is ' at home' to Eddie Tudorpole.
This week: studio band Birthday Party, Nin Dance Company, studio interview with Steve Strange ; and Ian Birch of Smash Hits magazine meets Paul Weller of The Jam and Martin Fry of ABC during a behind, the-scenes look at Top of the Pops.
This week: we eavesdrop on a studio session with Clare Grogan of Altered Images and her producer, Martin Rushent ; look at video with a difference, and listen to music from studio band The Fixx.
This week, the TV premiere of two bands voted for by the viewing audience, the result of our photo-booth competition, opinion from Malcolm McLaren , and much more.
The Synthesizer, People and Performance - a Riverside special 1982 has seen an unprecedented number of synthesizer bands -reaching high in the pop charts. Presenter Mike Andrews talks to Phil Oakey of Human League and his producer Martin Rushent , Billy Currie of Ultravox, George Martin , legendary Beatles producer currently working with Ultravox, and Brian Eno , original synthesizer player with Roxy Music , and acknowledged influence behind many of today's bands. With video performance from Kraftwerk, Ultravox, Roxy Music, Human League and Depeche Mode.
Style has become increasingly important. What you wear, how you look, gives signals to other people. Established style groups such as Teds and Skinheads have been with us for years. Punks took us by surprise in the mid 70s and still survive. This film sets out to rid people of preconceptions they may have, faced by people whose appearance is out of the ordinary.
Series 1 Revisited - another chance to see the controversial fashion designer Colin Swift. Also featuring music from Bauhaus, New Order, Fire Engines and the television debut of Mari Wilson , with performance and dance from The Event Group and A Black Box. Plus video from Ippu Do and Bill Nelson. Next week more of today's music, art, fashion and style from Riverside Studios, Hammersmith.
This week studio band Shreikback, the television premiere of punk ranter AttUa the Stockbroker, studio interview with Psychic TV and behind the scenes with The Nin Dance Company during rehearsal for their performance in The Dance Umbrella Festival
This week-on location with Heaven 17, music from David Sylvian and Orchestre Jazira , plus more behind-the-scenes news from Ian Birch.
This week Perry Haines talks to Boy George of Culture Club, Cabaret Voltaire discuss their videos and The Higsons provide the studio music. Not forgetting a film review of E.T. by science fiction buff Ken Livingstone (yes, the Ken Livingstone ), and performance from the Circus of Poets.
This week Steve Blacknell examines the heavy metal scene in a chat with Lemmy of Motorhead and an interview with Brian Harri gan of Melody Maker. Plus archive footage of Black Sabbath, filmed performance of Motorhead in concert earlier this year and studio band Rock Goddess. Also studio performance from brilliant rising star of the dance world Michael Clarke and an inside look at the preparations for the publication of independent magazine Id.
With Christmas in mind Marc Almond of Soft Cell chats to Victoria Studd while cooking his mince pies. Danny and the Nogoodniks provide the studio music and Neil Arthur from Blancmange tries out some new portable video equipment.
Model Making: A Riverside Special. How do you get your face on to the cover of a magazine? Some girls are 'discovered' in the street, while others at model schools will never make it. 'The ego is nothing, it's the money that really counts', according to New York model boss John Casablancas. So how do today's rising stars see their prospects? And how does Celia Hammond 's brilliant modelling career in the 60s look with the benefit of hindsight?
This week by popular request David Sylvian returns in solo performance. Studio band Big Country are joined by the Phoenix Dance Company from Leeds who combine martial arts with contemporary ballet. We also visit the Hacienda Club in Manchester and talk to designer Ben Kelly while the northern flavour of today's programme is continued by a visit from new wave Yorkshire poet Little Brother.
This week, interview and performance from actor: playwright, director Steven Berkoff, Dance from Mantis and music from Barnsley band The Danse Society
This week we see the result of Mick Karn 's collaboration with Ballet Rambert choreographer Michael Ho. Victoria Studd has a night out with Bobby Gee of Bucks Fizz and Animal Nightlife provide the studio music.
This week music from The Decorators. The Cure join Nicholas Dixon of the Royal Ballet in a dance experiment. Ian Birch checks out the Australian scene and Perry Haines meets film director Don Letts , first recognised for his early work with The Sex Pistols and The Clash. Also on view will be examples of his more recent collaboration with Fun Boy Three and Musical Youth.
Riverside's St Valentine's Day special is TV Fetish ' The fastest video your set will ever see. Don't blink or you'll miss something,' promise the programme's makers Patrick Martin and Doobie Eylath of Questionmark Productions. Makers of Vidzine, the first video fanzine, Patrick and Doobie suggest that their next project is touring their multi-screen videos around the solar system.
All the charisma of a used Kleenex says the British music press. but Liverpool band A Flock of Seagulls don't mind too much: they've still sold over a million copies of their first album and they're doing rather well in the USA. Steve Blacknell went to New York with them and took the chance to find out about cable television. Riverside presents a complete guide to New York's 27 channels, and takes a closer look at one of them, Music Television (MTV), the world's first 24-hour pop television channel. We catch some of the New Year celebrations on MTV when A Flock of Seagulls shared the top billing with Duran Duran.
This week, David Grant clarifies some misconceptions about record company deals when he talks to Simon Draper , Managing Director of Virgin Records, Peter Walm sley, Licensing Manager of Rough Trade Records and Lynval Golding of Fun Boy Three. Perry Haines discusses the state of British fashion and more dance collaboration with the choreography of Beyhan Fawkes and the amazing voice of Alison Limerick in piece from Wayne Sleep’s Dash.
Video from Post War .Nudes; the result of the photo-copy art competition; and Boys from the Black-stuff author Alan Bleasdale is interviewed as part of a wider look at the Liverpool scene. The Liverpool emphasis of this week is continued with studio band It's Immaterial.
A Riverside dance special Mantis Dance Company with guests 23 Skidoo. After ten years with the London Contemporary Dance Theatre a.s a leading soloist and associ ate choreographer, German-born Micha Bergese formed MANTIS in 1980. The company has evolved from its early all-male beginnings into a form that now includes the joint female elements of Carolyn Choa from Hong Kong and Wendy McPhee from Australia. In addition, Gary Hurst talks to Bergese about his work and the thoughts that inspired several of today's programme pieces.
In the first programme of this series new presenter Debbi Voller talks to Paul Weller about his current activities as record producer, and chats to his new label signings, Tracie and the Questions. Followed up by mod fashion; Mike reviews Francis Ford Coppola's critically acclaimed film Koyaanisqatsi; Steve gives an insider's view of the latest gossip; and there's poetry from Seething Wells. All this, with studio band The Armoury Show, a new competition and more...
Jn the second of the new series (Riverside has performance and interviews With the mysterious San Francisco group The Residents. filmed during their recent Mole Show tour. Studio music is provided by APB from Aberdeen and ex-BAUHAUS ,leader Pete Murphy reveals his plans for the future.
This week, music from the outrageous Mystery Girls; a chat with Tom Robinson , and a closer look at the cult of King Kurt. Also an abrasive performance from Erie Bogosian , fresh from his success on the Edinburgh fringe; a selection of this year's College Fashion Diploma Shows, and a review of Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence.
Riverside's special guests this week are Eddie and Sunshine fresh from the successful West End run of their cabaret show. They will be joined in the studio by Mick Karn , Midge Ure and John Foxx. With additional help from Riverside's regular team of presenters Debbi Voller, Mike Andrews and Steve Blacknell and last, but by no means least, performance from Fatima the Fantastic.
Mike Andrews talks to ex-member of Japan Steve Jansen who also shows video footage from his visit to 'the Land of the Rising Sun' where he played with THE YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA and ippu DO and met Merry Christmas Mr Law rence star Ryulchl Sakamoto. Nick Heyward joins Steve Black nell's Back chat. Also featuring avantgarde German artist Joseph Beuys and Gerry Anderson , creator of the pioneering TV series Thunderbirds, Fireball XL5 and Stingray, while studio music is provided by HIROS ACADEMY .
On Riverside this week studio music is provided by Paul Haig backed by an interesting new band that includes ex-members of Orange Juice, Gang of Four and The Associates. Mike Andrews visits the Hacienda Club, Manchester for a chat with New Order. There's a film profile of multi-talented musician, composer, producer, video-maker Bill Nelson and comedy from yet another Edinburgh festival success John Sessions of whom the press said 'Mr Sessions is a satirical mimic of the first order and a very fine actor to boot ... he populates a bare stage at dizzying speed and with breathtaking finesse '.
This week an exclusive film interview when Mike Andrews meets innovative electronic music wizard Brian Eno , who originally played with Roxy Music and has collaborated with such names as David Bowie and David Byrne of Talking Heads. Debbi Voller talks to Marilyn, the model whose face and style made his name on the fashion and nightclub circuit as a Monroe lookalike; and Steve Blacknell meets head-on with Stevo, notorious for striking strange record deals and a power behind the Some Bizarre record label.
On Riverside this week, studio performance from The Glove, recently formed by STEVE SEVERIN of The Banshees and ROBERT SMITH of The Cure. A quick look at the latest Vivienne Westwood fashions - plus video and interview from Phillip Glass , recently described as ' the thinking man's pop musician'.
Tonight's Hallowe'en special is based around the infamous Bat Cave Club. And there's performance from the mysterious Danielle Dax. Mike Andrews meets a real witch, and facts about the biggest seller of spells in Europe. On video some good clean fun from America, mud wrestling.
In the final programme, a look back at the series with extracts from the first television performances of such bands as Big Country New Order, Bauhaus and Killing Joke. A glimpse at the other side of Haysi Fantayzee 's Kate Garner , that of the professional photographer. Studio music from Virginia Astley and The Smiths. An interview with Trevor Horn , ex-producer of ABC, now creating a very different sound for new record label ZTT; and the latest fashions from a group of young designers including Richard Ostell who designs for ' Flip' and Sue Clowes who provided the original clothes for Boy George. All this, the winner of the poetry competition, and more!