Kitchen Person

For a while now I've been doing an Associates DVD with my wife. Nothing official, you understand - record company apathy has made sure that this stuff is not available in the shops. But by trading footage, and some avisynth-based video restoration work, we've built up a wedge of footage that people do want to see.

I'm touched by how much affection there still is for The Associates and Billy MacKenzie's later solo career, as they were genuinely forward-thinking as well as top 20 pop stars. I was 12 years old in 1982, so my window on music was daytime Radio One and Top Of the Pops, not the NME. But the Associates were at home in both worlds, which could have only ever happened during that time.

(Unfortunately, the comedy shorthand of the 1980s as being Thatcherism, shoulder pads and Phil Collins' snare drum sound still persists, and I wince. The era has so much better to offer).

Here's a snippet:


This and much more can be yours to watch again and again, etc. Just get in touch. If you have footage yourself, we're still on the lookout for:

Any performances from Dutch, Belgian, German or French tv
Either performance of Party Fears Two on Top of the Pops
Those First Impressions on Top of the Pops
Breakfast on Riverside
Breakfast on the Oxford Road Show
Studio One in Concert (a regional programme made by Border)
Fever on Glasgow's Big Day Out