Another thing I like about The Factory is that they consistantly played chart-friendly new release videos, and a fair percentage of those were great songs that didn't quite go on to make the Kent top 100. Particularly throughout 1988 there were many like House Of Shock, Eurogliders, Divinyls, Eurythmics, a-ha, Shakespear's Sister, 'Til Tuesday and many others that I like to imagine were charting somewhere in the top 200 that we were not (and still aren't) privy to. So The Factory captures a great era for me.
The Bananarama girls should have replaced Siobhan with her sister Maire and made a cover version of "Come On Eileen"
I knew you would put the Poison cover up but they didn’t look like that in 1989, they put away their make up in 1989, so need l say more ....
When they did Countdown Revolution, they didn’t look like that at all where as when Dee Schneider Of Twisted Sister did Countdown, he at least looked like he did on the record cover.
Acid house was big. Adamski KLF Shamen & S-Express all had huge chart success in the UK. S-Express were big here too. I had the theme from S-Express and Superfly Guy.
10/2/85 was a killer! First episodes of each year blow me away. :grinning: