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OK, I've never seen a video for Churchill's Black Dog and it's not on YouTube, so I take it is very rare and no-one has a copy?
I never knew you did that, clearly I'm not regular enough in this forum. Did you photocopy rage's red book while looking through it?
I stand corrected, doing my research properly I found that rage has played 6 different XTC clips since 1998 as follows:
Are You Receiving Me? - played 2 times, most recent 23 Sep 2006
Dear God - played 17 times, most recent 30 Mar 2013
Grass - played 1 time, most recent 21 Jan 2012
Making Plans For Nigel - played 17 times, most recent 12 Oct 2013
Senses Working Overtime - played 12 times, most recent 14 Apr 2012
This Is Pop - played 2 times, most recent 25 Mar 2000
Still but a fraction of their video output. They've given Dear God and Making Plans For Nigel a bit of a flogging. Since you've seen the rage red book, can you tell me whether the other XTC clips haven't been played at any stage over the past 17 years because rage no longer has them, or whether rage has them but has never decided to show them?
I never knew you did that, clearly I'm not regular enough in this forum. Did you photocopy rage's red book while looking through it?
It was the separage competition in 2010. I didn't get to see the red book, unfortunately (the winner didn't appear in person, they just got to choose the videos), but someone at rage called me a couple of days before it aired to select 2 different videos (they didn't have some of the selections on my original playlist), and I asked them 'what videos have you got by [artist]?' and they looked it up on a computer while I was on the phone, so a digital version of the book exists. I wish they'd make it public, though of course it would be being updated constantly.
From the rage website:
"With a focus on the 80's, we will be digging up rarities that have not been played in many years, if ever at all on Rage! So if you are a lover of hard to get clips, you will not want to miss this."
Although they then go on to write:
"The Vault Special will be uncovering lost gems from Robert Palmer, Underground Lovers, Mink DeVille, Wayne Scott, Flotsam and Jetsam and much much more."
I don't know all of those artists, but I know that they're not all 80s acts.
The picture they're showing:
http://www.abc.net.au/rage/archive/s4074940.htm
Is that Benny Mardones? It may be wishful thinking, but I suggested they air 'Into the Night' by him, which is a very rare video.
I can hardly wait to see the playlist for the Vault special. I have to confess, I posted rage an old-fashioned letter 3 weeks ago with a list of nearly 40 videos they could "consider". None of them have been played on rage since 1998, although it's likely that for quite a few of them, they don't actually have the clip at all (e.g. Eurogliders "No Laughing Matter").
I'll count how many of my video requests get played (if any), and calculate my lobbying "success rate". Let's see who here gets the best result out of their video requests 
Darn, a 4:40 am finish on Sunday morning? Whhhhhhhhhhy 
It HAD to happen on the Vault special, ah dear
I hope it's the music video they air for 'Inside Out'. I know you said the Countdown Revolution performance (which I don't remember) was good, but I'd much rather see the video again. I had it on a tape from Video Smash Hits in 1990, but regrettably recorded over it a few months later.
I also suggested a few Gary Clail videos, all of which but one I had on VHS anyway, but they've selected 2 of his earlier videos that I've never seen (and I don't even know the songs), which is good. They aren't on youtube either.
The only bad thing is the 4:30 end, due to some stupid basketball game being aired at that time 
. Of all the weeks this could happen...
I guess we will see tomorrow night if Rococco is the video or Countdown Rev performance. i once had both!
Actually it's Dr Who that is interrupting it first! Someone posted this as a reply to my post on FB:
"As last week simulcasting the latest season premiere of Doctor Who with the UK was a big ratings success, every episode this season will be shown early on Sunday morning as well as Sunday evening meaning for the next few weeks Saturday night's rage will be either interupted or cut-short."
B l o o d y hell
How long does the season of Dr Who go for? It's so disrespectful to rage viewers. Surely it could go on one of the other ABC channels instead?
B l o o d y Dr Who!
30 videos is A LOT!
Fourth time today I've got a $pam m e s s a g e after posting (I don't know what's triggering it off)... here goes again:
Michael, I've got 'My Side of the Bed' from a few different VHS sources. When I eventually get around to making you some discs I can add it (just remind me if need be). It would have been nicer though to get a digital c o p y from rage.
I was surprised at how few requests there were on the F B page actually. Apart from Jason's and mine, I only saw one other person's list there, which was a reply to one of my posts. It just goes to show how few people there are from the old rage forum who've migrated over to F B. Plus it's much harder to scroll back through older posts to the page.
I'm not liking this Dr Who thing at all. How many episodes are there in a season? Hopefully it will be over by January, but I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't
rage could have come back after Dr Who for an hour if need be, instead of airing that stupid basketball match.
According to wikipedia, this season of Dr Who has 12 episodes... which means it will run up until 9th November if this week is the second week. But there is also going to be a Christmas special this year
Well the stupid PG logo was over 5 seconds of the Tracey Ullman video, near the intro I guess it will also be there when this hour of the Vault special is repeated on Thursday night on ABC3 . I have got the video from another decent-ish source, though it has a dotted transparent > over the video throughout:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6XFlm7Xwno
OK, so it's a bit weird that we are getting Dr Who shown simultaneously when it's on in the UK. So, I'm guessing it's shown at 7.30pm Saturday nights there. Has it always been shown in the UK at that time on Sat. night?
Nathan, I was the other person on facebook who made some requests for the vault special, I go by an alias. I grabbed a handful of yours and Jason's requests that appealled to me. I did mention I was going to do this in an earlier post 
So it seems you can't use quotations or even inverted commas or else this thing thinks you're $pam Plus, no mention of things you turn in a book.
Okay rage ...... um ,,,,, where do I start?!?!?!??! Tonight was like NO other on rage!... I died a TRILLION times and the fact the ambulance weren't called is a miracle!!!!!!! You outdid yourself to the point of no return! ... Never seen the Arvo clip for Picture In The paper and I am still spellbound by such an Avant Garde piece of immaculta and OF COURSE, thank you for Oriental Exotique from the stunning Arvo .... As for PERSON TO PERSON, OH MY GOOOOOODNESS!!!!!!!!!! High Time is an AMAZING track that I didn't know, I was almost in tears xxxxx That band Double, WOW .... Didn't know them either and that 3 in a row was SPECTACULAR! .... The video for Heart Of Stone from Edith Bliss I had NEVER seen and it was soooo beautiful ... The promo video to Shout by Deckchairs, stunning to see it on rage! ... Now, onto RIGHEIRA with Vamos A La Playa, that was tooooooooooooooo simply divine, so lovely + My darling Clouds Across the Moon by The RAH Band was wonderful to see on rage ... Let's not forget War with You Got The Power which I had not heard since 1980 something and I loved it! ... DOUG PARKINSON Under The Influence of Love was MAGNIFIQUE! ... Cabaret Voltaire with Here To Go was too simply SUBLIME for words ... Nolan Sisters were ULTRA camp GREG PHILLINGANES with their take on YMO's Behind The Mask was just exquisite, what a great video ... PULSALLAMA The Devil Lives In My Husband's Body was ULTRA camp-tastic! ... FLOTSAM JETSAM'S Distraction soothed my soul with their sophisticated beauty and
FLOTSAM JETSAM with Flotsam Jetsam is one of my favourite videos and the credits at the end seeing Kate Ceberano was beautiful ... Ken Lazlo was so AMAZING to see on rage, how rare .... Loved seeing Hanging On A String from Loose Ends, last time I saw that on TV was in 1985 on SOUNDS! ... TANIA MARIA Don't Go was very interesting ... Mink Deville with Italian SHoes was simply WOW, the dancing girls in it were so fabbbulouuuuuus ... OFRA HAZA with the beautiful Galbi is always soothing + THE PIRANHAS Easy Come Easy Go was GREAT and SOOOO beautifully BRITISH, OH YEAH ... TELEX with We Are All Getting Old was FUN ... MONDINO with Les Danse Des Mots, yes please! ... WAYNE SCOTT Rambo (This Time We're Gonna Win) was very interesting indeed, SHERRICK Just Call was very smooooth and to see the Countdown Revolution performance of ROCOCO Inside Out again was great. I LOVED how much art and Avant Garde material was played. A night of REALL 'QUALITY' realness.... I bow down to you rage, you made my night!!!! xxxx thank you sooo very much 
That was very interesting indeed.
My only gripe - that Rococo's 'Italo House Mix' wasn't aired for some reason (presumably they had to chop a video to meet their precious Doctor Who starting time
). But it wasn't the last video, it was the 3rd last! I hope it gets aired if the last 2 hours of Saturday night's rage are repeated (as they normally are) on Tuesday and Wednesday night.
The Numero Uno video isn't as good as I remembered. Very low budget. It was good they played it though.
As for Hits of 1990 Volume 2, I never liked that all the tracks were linked together forward slash overlapping.
As for the King Crimson promo, rage posted on FB that it open quote was lost but literally found the reel lying around unmarked in a box. close quote 
Yes, I caught that! I really wasn't expecting them to, after last night they re-aired an hour (from 12am Saturday) from the new releases show, and then tonight starting from just after 3am Sunday morning. I recorded it anyway, hoping some small miracle would happen, and it did As soon as they started skipping videos from Sunday morning, I thought there was a chance. It may have helped that I suggested on FB that they air this clip during the week and someone else replied that they also wanted to see it.
If I recall correctly, you have been known once or twice to spray expletive-ridden tirades in the direction of the rage programmers for their general ineptitude, so does this mean that all is forgiven?
Why did rage swap the clips around when they replayed the 10.30-11.30 Saturday morning program tonight? Is this the norm when they do the repeats on ABC3 weeknights? Very confusing as I only wanted the first half hour and set the timer for it, so ended up miising out on some of the clips I wanted and got ones that I didn't.
^ Yes I wish rage would stop artificially enlarging the letterboxed videos to full 16:9. The worst though (or good if you're recording in 4:3) is when they air an old letterboxed video in its original aspect ratio randomly, as occasionally happens (e.g. with LA Style's 'James Brown Is Dead' and Big Fun's 'Can't Shake the Feeling')... so you can sit up waiting to change aspect ratios, and then when it airs, find out you did it for nothing . Luckily I caught both videos in the 'right' ratio anyway, but it (very) occasionally happens. I too don't like those 'in between' 4:3 and 16:9 videos that you can't get in the right ratio no matter what you try.
