A rare opportunity to hear Blue Monday. Is that a new song?

This version of the 'Countdown' appearance is a bit of an oddity.

Back in 1983, an interview with the band and a performance of BM was broadcast on 'Countdown' / 'Veronica's Countdown'. However, the clip you linked to isn't this 'broadcast' version.
Instead, this one appears to be an alternate take of both the performance and the interview. Same interviewer, almost the same questions asked, similar but slightly different witty responses from Steve etc. The BM performance might be the same actual performance but, IIRC, the camera editing is different.

Check YouTube for the other version if you're interested; its on there but not in as good a quality, sadly.

Not sure why there's two versions. Even if they did do multiple takes, I'm not sure why the channel would've now uploaded this alternate take. Surely they'd use the broadcast version. All a little odd.

Still a great (fun) interview. Thanks for posting.

I saw this years ago (with subtitles) on a dodgy 5-disc 'set' of NO TV appearances. They have every right to take the piss out of the presenter as I'm sure their grasp of Dutch far outstrips his English. Steve is a silly little arse.
As you probably know, they didn't play BM too much in the 80s cos they didn't want to be considered the band that did BM and nowt else (actually...). It's strange how some bands get lumped with one track and it's rarely the best. Should I Stay... is the Clash's only number one but possibly their limpest track ever, and Imagine isn't really typical of Lennon (recent evidence suggests Yoko had a lot to do with it, but Lennon didn't want to share credits. Mature fellow.) That Clash number always makes me think of 14-year-olds in their first band at school, 'Right, this is an old Clash song and it's Should I fucking Stay or Should I fucking Go.' Makes Green Day sound like Led Zeppelin.

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Really? Wow!
Would love to see the other footage. Especially Confusion.
Is it out there on the 'net?
If you don't mind me asking, how do you know the details of this? Were you involved somehow?

Really cool information. Thanks.

Thanks.
Just searched their database and it does mention they did Confusion. Never knew that. Hooky's book only lists that they appeared on the show, not the tracks performed. Can only assume that they performed both tracks but they only broadcast Blue Monday.

Looking at the shows that they have footage of, I've matched these to known broadcasts on the dates provided and they appear to be:

Celebration, June 1981 (Ceremony, Chosen Time, Denial, Dreams Never End, ICB, Truth)
Countdown, May 1983 (Blue Monday x3, Confusion x2, 6 mins of interviews)
The Tube, March 1986 (Broken Promise, State Of The Nation)
Countdown (presumably), May 1993 (Regret x2)
???, 13/05/05 (Jetstream)

The date for the last one looks like the Jonathan Ross programme, but knowing the BBC, it seems unlikely that ReelinInTheYears would have access to this footage. Based on the other programmes being commercial TV, it seems likely that this one is the appearance on either CD:UK or Popworld which were both broadcast very close to the Ross appearance.

Interesting, anyway. Would be nice if they released all of this.

Apologies, this was the interview I saw - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gdeAaZevts - followed by BM. As I said, I remember thinking how arse they were to take the mick out of the presenter when their own Dutch must've been far fabber than his English... Ain't we Brits abroad AWESOME? Guy makes an effort to communicate in your language, remains as polite and friendly as possible, not only lets you publicise your '''''work''''' but pays you for it - and you take the piss. Rock 'n' roll, eh? Steve is an embarrassment - 'Yeah, yer can only get one note out of that, 'sall you can get out of it, just one note, that's all yer can get out of it, just one note, yer can only get one note out oif it, just one note.' The Dutch guy is more articulate than him.

It's almost as though they're from the 80's!!

Got a soundcloud/YT link to your stuff?
Maybe there should be a "share your music" thread for people on here who make their own music (and not just Fruity Loops cover versions).

OK - I think I've actually managed to find a copy of the version of 'Confusion' they did.

Sadly it's:

a) audio only;
b) fairly poor quality; and
c) sounds like a less than stellar performance (although this just might be the quality of the file).

It was labelled as 'VOO Radio Session' and has an intro and outro by someone in (presumably) Dutch. By the sound of the introduction, it does seem more like it was on the radio than TV. I think 'VOO' is the company that broadcast 'Countdown' (VOO is apparently a Dutch abbreviation for Veronica Broadcasting Organisation).

So, it seems likely that the 'TV' session was also repeated on the radio. Or, maybe, the 'Confusion' TV footage wasn't shown, but was, instead, broadcast on the radio only.

Anyone know for sure?

If anyone wants to hear it, or if anyone speaks Dutch and wants to translate the opening and closing intros, I've uploaded it here:

https://www.mediafire.co...%28Confusion%29.mp3/file

I got it from another fan who I got talking to on one of the Facebook groups a while back, along with some other items.

I seem to remember that I'd seen it listed on trading lists years ago (when I used to trade tapes back in the 90s) as an 'audio only' item. So it's presumably been in collecting circles for some time now. I've just never had a copy before.

You're probably right re it just being a poor quality tape rather than the performance.

Hopefully the video footage appears on the PC&L boxset. Fingers crossed. I wonder how long it'll be until we get a track listing for this set.