why is there no dvd of THE WORD (channel 4, uk)

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more memorable stuff on there than the poxy TUBE best of dvds - i'll say!

. huggy bear causing a near-riot doing HER JAZZ the week of release
. k cobain esq announcing that courtney love is '...the best fuck in the world'
. blur kicking off the first (only good) year of britpop on the weekend GIRLS AND BOYS went top 5
. L7 dropping their trousers
. mark lamarr having a furious go at shabba ranks for making no-apologies homophobic comments

and all live!

who do i/we have to petition?

― pisces, Monday, 26 March 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

Because it would mean more money for T Christian.

― Dom Passantino, Monday, 26 March 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

I would love to see that clip of New Kingdom on the Word again. I'd pay for a DVD with that on.

― nate woolls, Monday, 26 March 2007 17:04 (eighteen years ago)

it's on youtube, but with the group unidentified.

― energy flash gordon, Monday, 26 March 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

No DVD of The Word = possible evidence of compassionate God

― Noodle Vague, Monday, 26 March 2007 22:33 (eighteen years ago)

I want the MC Hammer interview and Shaun Ryder with Zippy.

― Keith, Monday, 26 March 2007 23:26 (eighteen years ago)

Redd Kross were great on it.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 26 March 2007 23:51 (eighteen years ago)

Snoop Dogg being attacked by Emu, and his "razzle" falling out of his pocket. Snoop's that is, not Emu's.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 09:23 (eighteen years ago)

S: Appearances by Dinosaur jr & Afghan Whigs

D: Amanda Der Cabinet & Dani Behr

― NickB, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 09:42 (eighteen years ago)

Wasn't there quite a gross 'I'd do anything to get on TV' slot, or am I thinking of TFI Friday?

― NickB, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 09:45 (eighteen years ago)

No, that went where Chris Evans feared to tread.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 09:47 (eighteen years ago)

Is it possible yet to send some sort of giant fiery turd bomb back to the year 1990?

― NickB, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 09:53 (eighteen years ago)

[ crush thread]

Katie Pucrick: I would have sexual intercourse with that

[ /crush thread]

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 09:58 (eighteen years ago)

Rank the following:

James Whale
The Hitman & Her
The Word
The test card

― NickB, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 09:59 (eighteen years ago)

There is a clip of Stereolab on that Stereolab DVD that came with the 3CD singles compilation thing.

I sold it, what kind of fool am I?

The kind who is sporadically very poor, that's what kind.

― PJ Miller, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 10:00 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, you can all say what you like about The Word, just don't be mean to Ms Puckrik.

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 10:01 (eighteen years ago)

I can remember lots of good bands - stereolab, air, sepultura, the posies, redd kross, dino jr & others. Apart from that though, the program was awful crass bollocks. K Puckrick is hott, but she was annoying on "the word". It was better than "the girlie show", but that isn't saying much.

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 10:03 (eighteen years ago)

To answer the original question, I would guess it's down to the usual copyright/licensing issues.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 10:07 (eighteen years ago)

Oliver Reed, motherfuckers.

― blueski, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 10:26 (eighteen years ago)

I watched The Word every week as they had great bands on a lot of the time. I have some of that footage on VHS, well scattered over hundreds of video tapes anyway.
A pre-chemical bros "aerial" performance is on one of them.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 10:27 (eighteen years ago)

Killdozer + American Pie = Great + Terrible

― NickB, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 10:27 (eighteen years ago)

I liked it when the Marquis of Blandford was on it. He said his fave singer was Neil Young, providing T Christian w/ a rare opportunity for continuity as he nodded his head in the direction of St Etienne (who'd recently performed Yr In A Bad Way, iirc) and said "Maybe you'd like their version of "Only Love - Will Break Yr Heart".

oh and the dash was there for a reason, he paused breathlessly midway thru the song title.

Digible Planets were excellent on The Word.

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 10:29 (eighteen years ago)

The Word: it gave Jo Whiley a career.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 10:32 (eighteen years ago)

Argh. I'd forgotten about that.

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 10:38 (eighteen years ago)

I don't remember her on that.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:03 (eighteen years ago)

No one has mentioned Hufty yet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hufty

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:04 (eighteen years ago)

She was chief booker for all the bands.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:04 (eighteen years ago)

Shoeless, not hairless.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:04 (eighteen years ago)

"Killdozer + American Pie = Great + Terrible"

That was on Club X, which was a sort of Word forerunner in the late 80s. That Killdozer performance was great, though.

The Pixies on the very first Word doing a metal'd up version of Cecilia Ann was particularly excellent!

― M Carty, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:21 (eighteen years ago)

Club X? I'm confused now! Was that the Normski thing?

― NickB, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:32 (eighteen years ago)

Club X was the one where Paul Morley started brukkus with some dude that threw water at him.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:35 (eighteen years ago)

... and where Simon Fisher-Turner once staged an Yves Klein's blue paint/naked women type happening

― Tom D., Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:38 (eighteen years ago)

It got pulled because of rubbish ratings, and yet...

during the final show, the transmitters goofed and broadcast C4 on both the C4 and the ITV channels.

biggest ever audience! (but I don't think it counts for ratings)

― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:39 (eighteen years ago)

I couldn't remember exactly what Hufty looked like. Image search provided me with this man who seems to have a breast for a tricep. That's close enough I suppose...

http://www.student123.com/images/scene/bobybuilders100.jpg

― onimo, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:39 (eighteen years ago)

So Club X - um, was that the one that Tony Wilson always used to be on then? (sorry, my memory is shot!)[SPOILER ALERT: for those who are planning on having the answer revealed to them in the quiet comfort of some horrible old folks' home in Smethwick in the year 2046, look away now]

― NickB, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:46 (eighteen years ago)

Tony Wilson - The Other Side of Midnight, which I thought only went out in the Granada area. Early Stone Roses appearance, Wilson battling with (possibly) Morley and Elms while suffering from laryngitis, Wilson waxing lyrical about some Rothko exhibition, Keith Allen slagging off everyone he'd ever worked with - it was good stuff from what I dimly remember.

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:50 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, yes you're right! (Let's do cocoa and incontinence together sometime)

― NickB, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:52 (eighteen years ago)

Hold on, i'm getting confused now, I thought "The Other Side of Midnight" was the show where Oliver Reed molested Kate Millett - in fact, easily Oliver Reed's greatest performance and the one you never see anywhere (did they scrub the tapes?)

― Tom D., Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:53 (eighteen years ago)

We in thames/Carlton? region got the Other Side of Midnight. I have the Stone Roses performance on an old VHS as proof.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:55 (eighteen years ago)

Which was the one where Oliver Reed undid his belt then proceeded to walk up and down, causing his trouser to fall down?

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:57 (eighteen years ago)

Women In Love?

― NickB, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 12:00 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha ha ha ha.

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 12:03 (eighteen years ago)

Tom - that was After Dark, C4's "open-ended" panel discussion show, where people were encouraged to ramble on and on until the last person awake in the broadcast suite faded them out. Reedy got lairy on that.

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 12:12 (eighteen years ago)

didn't he say "I'll put my plonker on the table if you don't give me my mushy peas"?

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 12:21 (eighteen years ago)

didn't he say "I'll put my plonker on the table if you don't give me my mushy peas"?

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 12:21 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=other+side+of+midnight+

other
side
of
midnight
stuff
here

― pisces, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 12:25 (eighteen years ago)

didn't he say "I'll put my plonker on the table if you don't give me my mushy peas"?

"... unless you have seen... the sad boy dance... dancing... at the Palais de Dance..."

He said a lot! My old flatmate had a video of it, it was amazing!

― Tom D., Tuesday, 27 March 2007 12:28 (eighteen years ago)

The Stone Rose bit is on the Stone Roses DVD.

I would like to see Peter Hook with all the New Order machines again.

― PJ Miller, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 12:38 (eighteen years ago)

That's another one I have somewhere on VHS!

― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 12:43 (eighteen years ago)

he also memorably disapperead to the lavatory and then came back and announced
"i've had a piss". i was watching it live with my mum.

― pisces, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 12:46 (eighteen years ago)

worst musical performances on The Word:

Millionaire Hippies 'I Am The Music, Hear Me'
Shabba Ranks & Marky Mark '....'

― blueski, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 12:46 (eighteen years ago)

easily Oliver Reed's greatest performance and the one you never see anywhere (did they scrub the tapes?)

This is a '100 most embarassing TV moments' perennial isn't it?

― DJ Mencap, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 12:51 (eighteen years ago)

I haven't seen it in a while, you see the Olly Reed on Aspel clip ALL the time

― Tom D., Tuesday, 27 March 2007 12:52 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=oliver+reed+after+dark

oliver reed on 'after dark' in 5 chunks.

― pisces, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha. Brilliant.

"If somebody that knows no ill... really... comes to a Palais de Danse... and dances around the place, or is............ twirls(?) his heels in the air, because he's a Celt... why should he go down? How can you forgive yourself because he's a better dancer?"

(He's talking about the first Gulf War here)

― Tom D., Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

worst musical performances on The Word:

Millionaire Hippies 'I Am The Music, Hear Me'
Shabba Ranks & Marky Mark '....'

blueski on Tuesday, 27 March 2007 12:46 (2 hours ago)

The worst one I can remember was Jon Pleased Wimmin - a tranny ineptly posturing on a grand piano over a taped playback of bad piano house (typing it out, it sounds awesome, in reality it was piss-boring)

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

i remember that too. it was JPW's own single 'P.A.S.S.I.O.N.', sampling The Flirts.

808 State performed the theme tune in the studio one time too. that was nice.

― blueski, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

I forgot all about Hufty until I read this thread, she was quite appalling, though not as bad as Amanda de Cadenet's brother who also presented it iirc And both were better than child model Felix who presented the Tube. WTF they were thinking of, meedja types back in the 80's were obviously even more up their own arses than they are now.

Hufty, and indeed everyone on The Word would be a shoo-in for Big Brother if they'd made it back then.

― Billy Dods, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

at least people took proper risks back then re presenter incompetence and guests behaviour...altho i suppose you could look at CBB and argue back well.

― blueski, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

worst musical performances on The Word:

Shabba Ranks & Marky Mark '....'

Ah, now... was that the Friday night live version, where Marky missed his cue and failed to join Shabba on stage - or the Saturday night repeat, which substituted a retake, during which Marky defended Shabba's earlier "gays should be crucified" comments, prompting Shabba to reply with a snatch of "Boom Bye Bye"?

― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

> Club X? I'm confused now! Was that the Normski thing?

Normski was Def II wasn't it, bbc2's riposte.

http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/factual/defII2.htm

― koogs, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, now... was that the Friday night live version, where Marky missed his cue and failed to join Shabba on stage - or the Saturday night repeat, which substituted a retake, during which Marky defended Shabba's earlier "gays should be crucified" comments, prompting Shabba to reply with a snatch of "Boom Bye Bye"?

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woah. for real??

― pisces, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 01:08 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?p=r&user=theworduk&page=1

― piscesx, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 21:23 (seventeen years ago)

Tories vs. Miners pillow fight:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a50muJaYWI

Oh my...

― NickB, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 21:53 (seventeen years ago)

...that one guy should have slipped a brick inside his case

― NickB, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 21:55 (seventeen years ago)

Great link picesx, really taking me back to my teenage years.

― chap, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 22:31 (seventeen years ago)

I'm still boggling over that pillow fite - Girls on Film it ain't.