Video for Trash Glam Baby

Mark L · Loudmouth

Video for Trash Glam Baby

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

Mark L wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1EoKEYtPJI&feature=youtu.be

Quite brilliant.

Geldof's shirt is soooooo cooooooool.

NOT

Mark L · Loudmouth

Strange this is so well hidden. Wont come up in a normal search, had to follow a YouTubers convoluted route given on the official audio page. Hence why only 65 views I suppose?

zippaguppis · I Don't Like Mondays

Its unlisted it seems....think we saw it too early? Or perhaps they made a mistake, lol.

Mike menzies · V Deep

Love Gary's that's boomtown kid absolute genius luv the video hope it gets more hits as it is hard to access at moment incidentally the audio on you tube just smashed 10k so I'm pleased trying to get my son into the rats as he likes a lot of different music

Mark L · Loudmouth

Mike menzies wrote:
Love Gary's that's boomtown kid absolute genius luv the video hope it gets more hits as it is hard to access at moment incidentally the audio on you tube just smashed 10k so I'm pleased trying to get my son into the rats as he likes a lot of different music

A great video, but trying to understand Google pulling a pallett of rocks around and the face masks references. Seems similar to Diamond Smiles, with the band observing the party goer throughout, but a less tragic end to the night, finishing at the Boomtown flat bed alive, rather than dead by a hotel bed. Simon as a doorman and Gary as a taxi driver is hilarious. Great graphics, love the way the brutalist Boomtown flats sit behind the buildings of Vittoria St and the Rotunda is in shot. Brings back memories of when I lived in Brum years ago.

Mike menzies · V Deep

Have they pulled the video off YouTube as it won't let me onto the video a anyone else having this problem

Mark L · Loudmouth

Mike menzies wrote:
Have they pulled the video off YouTube as it won't let me onto the video a anyone else having this problem

Getting the message : This video is private. Something's up.

suss · House on Fire

Rumour has it Birmingham City Council has objected to the portrayal of a sleazy less than salubrious neighbourhood

In a statement they said the city is much improved in the last 75 years or so, stemming largely from the £1 million of improvements brought by WW2 bombing

Mark L · Loudmouth

suss wrote:
Rumour has it Birmingham City Council has objected to the portrayal of a sleazy less than salubrious neighbourhood
In a statement they said the city is much improved in the last 75 years or so, stemming largely from the £1 million of improvements brought by WW2 bombing

The old ones are the best Suss!

When I was there, I lived in the Moseley /Hall Green area and it was not bad at all. But the bus journey into Colmore Row each day was a matter of deteriorating outlook the closer to the city centre you got. Once you were in the city, it was OK but the 60s concrete overload and design in favour of the car over pedestrians could be a bit much.

zippaguppis · I Don't Like Mondays

Video's private, there might have been a mistake when it was originally up as "Unlisted". Must have been scheduled....for when? We don't know.

Mike menzies · V Deep

Yeh asks me to put in my details then tells me it's private so I don't know what's going on whether a glitch at their end I don't know

Mike menzies · V Deep

Acco to bobs facebook video will be on YouTube Friday morning so it looks like we'll get to watch it after all

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

https://boomtown-rats.lnk.to/TrashGlamVidFA?fbclid=IwAR2C4Ll3f2tsVtV5oL7Hw7p57OeMOyRuLH3H6-39-IJ3MwJ2sHLhfj2TeRk

The premiere for those who haven't seen it...

Noel · Dave

ArrGee wrote:
https://boomtown-rats.lnk.to/TrashGlamVidFA?fbclid=IwAR2C4Ll3f2tsVtV5oL7Hw7p57OeMOyRuLH3H6-39-IJ3MwJ2sHLhfj2TeRk

The premiere for those who haven't seen it...

Maybe the video needed further editing. Weird that the character dialogue could be heard over the music. Also atmospheric thunder sounds at start of video not on YouTube version if I'm not mistaken?

Mark L · Loudmouth

I found the character dialogue overdub strange, it annoyingly obliterates some of the song vocals. The rain and thunder on the video cannot be heard on the audio. Not sure why the audio and video would be released a week apart? Is this the new way of doing things, to sustain interest?

-- Edited by Mark L on Thursday 16th of January 2020 11:16:57 AM

Mark L · Loudmouth

Positive comments are piling up on You Tube, over 800 views in less than 2 hours....

Mike menzies · V Deep

If you count both vids 1with google in. And 1on main you tube has just hit 7k views. So not too bad pity can't count original single on YouTube that had 13k alone

Mark L · Loudmouth

I just can't get my head around the whole situation!

Mike menzies · V Deep

Have you got your mask?

Mark L · Loudmouth

Mike menzies wrote:
Have you got your mask?

Well, it is flu season

Mike menzies · V Deep

That's boris town kid lets get back to boomtown the capital of sanity and happiness

Mark L · Loudmouth

Mike menzies wrote:
That's boris town kid lets get back to boomtown the capital of sanity and happiness

Yes but late at night, you feel the madness stir inside your head before you're walking back to happiness.....

Mike menzies · V Deep

Nice one mark

Mark L · Loudmouth

25,000 views now on You Tube for the official video. Nice to see Pete responding to posters.

Mark L · Loudmouth

33,000 tonight. There seems to be 2000 people per day viewing. No sight of the Rats on the singles /download whatever charts which is a shame but maybe that will change with the release of the vinyl. Morrissey released a new single the same day virtually as TBR and has over 100,000 views. Never got him, the odd single is good, such as Last of the Famous International Playboys, featured as a new entry at 6 on the 1989 TOTP reruns recently but generally I find his style miserable and the song structures clunky, the lyrics don't scan properly etc.

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

Mark L wrote:
33,000 tonight. There seems to be 2000 people per day viewing. No sight of the Rats on the singles /download whatever charts which is a shame but maybe that will change with the release of the vinyl. Morrissey released a new single the same day virtually as TBR and has over 100,000 views. Never got him, the odd single is good, such as Last of the Famous International Playboys, featured as a new entry at 6 on the 1989 TOTP reruns recently but generally I find his style miserable and the song structures clunky, the lyrics don't scan properly etc.

A less critical fan base? For some, Mozzer can do no wrong.

it is highly unlikely The Rats will make singles charts, but it is possible they may make the album or at least vinyl album chart if there is a snowball effect starting with the single through to 13 March. Probably a TV appearance lined up.

Mark L · Loudmouth

A friend once told me to buy his album in the 90s, I think it was Vauxhall, and said I would be blown away. It was ok to me in parts, but he would talk breathlessly about genius and such like.

Derek The Dane · In the Long Grass

After a couple of weeks watching the video I still think it is brilliant.Not sure how much radio play the song is getting though.

Mark L · Loudmouth

Derek The Dane wrote:
After a couple of weeks watching the video I still think it is brilliant.Not sure how much radio play the song is getting though.

Bob was on Liz Kershaw's BBC6 show and Simon Logan's show on BBC Newcastle over the weekend and today. Trash Glam Baby (Radio Edit) is listed as having been played. This is presumably where sh*t is replaced with sick. BBC Radio 2 seem not to be playing it all.

Some YouTube posters speak of hearing it played on Radio Caroline.

Mark L · Loudmouth

Over 37,000 views. Pete Briquette replying to a fair few posts direct.

Mike menzies · V Deep

Add these to the unlisted vid and audio comes to over 50k let's hope the vinyl version boosts it a bit more (incidentally got 2friends who ain't rats fans as such but both downloaded trash glam as they love it. Too ) still happy to be a citizen of boomtown roll on 13/3/20

Mark L · Loudmouth

Mike menzies wrote:
Add these to the unlisted vid and audio comes to over 50k let's hope the vinyl version boosts it a bit more (incidentally got 2friends who ain't rats fans as such but both downloaded trash glam as they love it. Too ) still happy to be a citizen of boomtown roll on 13/3/20

Marvellous numbers, hoping for some chart action with the album.

Mark L · Loudmouth

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0811fwm

Simon Logan up at BBC Radio Newcastle might very well be a big Geldof/Rats fan. His lunchtime show today featured Banana Republic, This is the World Calling and Someones Looking At You. Couldnt play Trash Glam Baby as billed as an 80s show. Thats a few more coffees ArrGee!

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

Mark L wrote:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0811fwm

Simon Logan up at BBC Radio Newcastle might very well be a big Geldof/Rats fan. His lunchtime show today featured Banana Republic, This is the World Calling and Someones Looking At You. Couldnt play Trash Glam Baby as billed as an 80s show. Thats a few more coffees ArrGee!

No coffee for Fingers though. I suspect the current band would prefer Like Clockwork to be played, so only Garry doesnt get a latte. Cant imagine Gerry Cott gets too many flat whites.

i wonder if Paul Weller wrote as the cappuccino kid for that very reason?

Derek The Dane · In the Long Grass

What days do the charts run from,do sales go from Friday to Friday?.

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

Derek The Dane wrote:
What days do the charts run from,do sales go from Friday to Friday?.

Charts aren't really sales based. Mostly determined by streams. I believe it is Friday -> Thursday as last chart came out on Friday.

Vinyl chart is only one that is wholly sales based.

Mike menzies · V Deep

The official video on YouTube has now got nearly 100k great let's keep this going

manatthetop · In the Long Grass

Due to C19. I feel this single and album had been lost. Abit like In The Long Grass. Consumed by band aid. Two great albums that have gone to waist