Echo & the Bunnymen • Villiers Terrace [+Bonus rehearsal] • Fun Factory • U.K. TV • August 2nd 1980

Echo & the Bunnymen • Villiers Terrace [+Bonus rehearsal] • Fun Factory • U.K. TV • August 2nd 1980

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Released on this day, the 18th of July 1980, was Echo & the Bunnymen's debut album “Crocodiles”.

To commemorate the release of the album, here’s my cleaned-up version of the August 1980 Fun Factory TV performance, including previously uncirculated footage of the rehearsal.

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From late March to late May 1980, Echo & the Bunnymen took a two-month hiatus from playing live shows. During that time, over the course of three weeks, the band recorded the material for Crocodiles, at Rockfield Studios in Monmouth, Wales.

On the 5th of May, “Rescue”, the band’s second single was released, and later that month the band undertook their first proper UK tour.

When Crocodiles was released on July 18th, it was an immediate critical and commercial success. Writing for NME at the time, Chis Salewicz described the album as "being probably the best album this year by a British band". The album quickly reached Number 17 on the UK album charts. It is now widely considered to be one of the greatest debut albums of all time.

Surprisingly perhaps the band didn’t immediately go on tour to promote the album, the first post-release shows seems to be:
September 7th: The Lyceum , London
September 9th: The Futurama Festival, Leeds

Please see:
Echo & the Bunnymen • The Puppet • Live at The Lyceum • September 7th 1980
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-tKzlaUXN0

Echo And The Bunnymen • Crocodiles • Live at Futurama 2 • Queens Hall Leeds • 13th September 1980:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGHLV5hTENI

It seems that prior to those September shows, the first post-album release appearance anywhere by the band, was this performance on Fun Factory. Fun Factory was a short-lived - and by most accounts pretty rubbish - Granada TV Saturday Morning kids show, set in a Manchester Factory.

Crocodiles is an album that contains many great songs, and Villiers Terrace is considered by some fans to be one of the best songs from it. Here, the band perform / mime to a unique version of Villiers Terrace, and they look young and beautiful and very, very cool.

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Many thanks to fellow collector and Bunnyfan "T" for providing the original files, which I’ve been tinkering around with for the last year or so.

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Thanks for watching, hope you dig it!

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Credits

Echo & the Bunnymen • Villiers Terrace • Fun Factory • Granada TV • August 2nd 1980

Musicians:
Vocals, Guitar • Ian McCulloch
Lead Guitar • Will Sergeant
Bass, backing vocals • Les Pattinson
Drums • Pete de Freitas

Photo credit • Alternate Crocodiles album cover shot by Brian Griffin

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