Here’s a rough as… Easter Bunny gift! Very basic footage of the Bunnymen, synched to a great audio. Both from the Heaven Up Here tour, which began at Easter time, late March / early April 1981.
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The Heaven Up Here album and its accompanying tour, was the Bunnymen’s artistic and stylistic peak, in my opinion. They would continue to produce and perform great music for the next several years, but they never again scaled the heights of their 1981 output, by my estimation.
Heaven up Here was released on the 30th of May 1981. It was an immediate critical and commercial success, becoming Echo and the Bunnymen's first Top 10 release when it reached number 10 on the UK Albums Chart. It was also the band's first entry into the United States albums charts reaching number 184 on the Billboard 200.
The tour promoting Heaven Up Here began in the U.S. in late March or early April of that year [exact date uncertain] a good couple of months prior to the album’s release. The tour continued through the UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and a second visit to the U.S. The final leg was a second tour of the UK, culminating at the University of Leicester, on the 12th of December 1981.
Footage from the period is scarce. No official videos were produced, there were only a very few TV appearances [that still survive and are in circulation at least] and there is very little live footage of note. And so, if as I am, you are a big fan of the band during the era, even this glimpse into the Heaven Up Here tour is special, rough as it is.
The footage utilized here originates from a 1981 Bunnymen show at the University of Brussels, Belgium on the 17th May 1981. There is footage of the entire show. However, most of it is too poor to do anything worthwhile with. Plus, the sound is not great. Pictures on My Wall is one of the few moments that I thought was worth trying to salvage. It was optimized using all the digital technologies at my disposal Plus, because the band play along to a drum machine, syncing to an audio from another show was relatively straight forward.
This site has some great shots from the Brussels show :
www.newwavephot...
The audio is from a Bunnymen show at the Concertgebouw de Vereeniging, in Nijmegen, Netherlands on June 2nd, 1981. The quality is basically outstanding as it was recorded by VPRO for a radio broadcast on KRO-FM, Holland.
Thanks for watching, hope you dig it!
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Credits
Video:
Auditorium Q | University of Brussels (VUB) | Brussels, Belgium |17 May 1981
Audio:
Recorded live at the Concertgebouw de Vereeniging, in Nijmegen, Netherlands | 2 June 1981 | Recorded by VPRO for KRO-FM Holland
Musicians:
Vocals, Guitar | Ian McCulloch
Lead Guitar | Will Sergeant
Bass | Les Pattinson
Drums | Pete de Freitas
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