Got the Julian Cope book Head On/Repossessed in our charity shop. Has insight into the Liverpool punk scene.
On this day, the 23rd of January 1981, The Teardrop Explodes released their single Reward. Here is a new remaster of the Don Letts-directed promo video that accompanied the release.
The promo video was directed by filmmaker and musician Don Letts. It was shot at a then-disused part of Liverpool’s Victoria Docks. The video featured a who’s who of the burgeoning Liverpool alternative music scene at the time. In addition to members of Teardrop Explodes, the video features members of Echo & the Bunnymen and the Wild Swans and other luminaries from Zoo Records and the Erics scene. The cast are clad [according to IMDB] in 1940’s WWII chic, careering around the dock in an old Austin Champ, a military and civilian jeep-like vehicle produced in the 1950s, and hiding in candlelit abandoned industrial buildings.
