Live performances from dozens of leading early-1980s musical acts - rock, punk, ska, reggae - it's all here.Live performances from dozens of leading early-1980s musical acts - rock, punk, ska, reggae - it's all here.Live performances from dozens of leading early-1980s musical acts - rock, punk, ska, reggae - it's all here.
Toyah Willcox
- Self
- (as Toyah Wilcox)
Stephen Bray
- Self - with Toyah Wilcox
- (as Steve Bray)
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
- Themselves
- (as Orchestral Manoeuvres)
Storyline
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- TriviaAccording to the book ''Alternative Rock: Third Ear'' (2000) by Dave Thompson, all three Copeland brothers were involved in the making of this film. All the acts featured were represented by Miles A. Copeland III's IRS management company and booked by Ian Copeland's FBI Booking agency, and with three songs, drummer Stewart Copeland's The Police are featured more than any other act in this film.
- Crazy creditsThe billing of the name of British singer Toyah Willcox in the closing credits is spelled incorrectly as "Toyah Wilcox".
- Alternate versionsThe 94 minute theatrical version widely released in America by Filmways Pictures omits 10 songs and artists that appear in the 124 minute version released to U.S. home video. The selections missing from most theatrical prints are:
- John Cooper Clarke - "Health Fanatic"
- Chelsea - "I'm on Fire"
- Athletico Spizz 80 - "Where's Captain Kirk?"
- Magazine - "Model Worker"
- The Members - "Offshore Banking Business"
- Invisible Sex - "Valium"
- Pere Ubu - "Birdies"
- John Otway - "Cheryl's Going Home"
- Skafish - "Sign of the Cross"
- Splodgeness Abounds - "Two Little Boys"
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Nomi Song (2004)
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Found out why there's no Urgh! A Music War DVD yet...(read on)
Because of an exclusive contract to publish this movie on a now dead format (CED), the contracts for the individual artists are missing. Because you can't renegotiate a contract without the original to amend, no one can touch this. Its currently owned by its original producer, Miles Copeland (founder of IRS records), and he has the film of THREE songs from each band in storage, but because of the legal land lock he cannot release it. If he does some day, we can look forward to a 6 hour 2 DVD special edition.
Pretty sad to say the very least. We can only hope one day (soon) that the original contracts will be found as this will make a MAJOR DVD release!! Oh, human error!!
Pretty sad to say the very least. We can only hope one day (soon) that the original contracts will be found as this will make a MAJOR DVD release!! Oh, human error!!
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- Mar 26, 2006
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