The drummer and bass player are the only ones actually playing "one armed scissor"😂😂😂

This is my favorite live performance. You have to realize, this was around the time that Hit Me Baby was the #1 song, and Robbie Williams was the second guest on this episode. The joy I get imagining what the audience and producers must have thought when they uncorked this bottle of crazy is beautiful.

The Stages of Omar: 1. Accidentally knocks guitar string out of tune in the first second of the song 2. Tries to pass it off as crazy psychedelic guitar madness 3. Attempts to fix it mid-chorus/realizes there's not enough time 4. Does best to play around it/more psychedelic guitar madness 5. Cuts his losses and yeets his guitar 6. TAMBOURINE TIME!!!

Thank goodness Omar remembered his emergency tambourine.

If you have ever wondered why the group split up into two seperate bands, here's your answer lol

This is what remembering a song by memory feels like

I recall an interview with Omar where he said there was a point in ATDI where he started to hate the guitar. This may have been that point in time.

You guys are not ready for this,but your kids will love it!

Jim Ward saved the presentation since Omar and Cedric decided to go nuts hahah

I like how Omar tried to bring it back a little during the first chorus, only to realize how fucked the tuning was at that point and just descending back into noise. I've heard a lot about how wild this performance was but could never find a video, it didn't disappoint.

So this is what happens when half the band gives up playing the song and just goes insane. Very impressive

Omar's guitar tech: "No worries Omar, here's a freshly strung and tuned gui....." Omar: * 𝙔𝙀𝙀𝙏 *

The performance that launched a thousand new bands.

Gotta love Omar’s guitar going out of tune pretty much immediately and later giving up with it completely to pick up a tambourine

I was in a cover band and we ended the set with this song and tried to recreate the energy from this performance and they were honestly some of the best nights of my life.

No drugs were harmed in the making of this video

Almost 21 years later and this album is still next level stuff

Jim held this song together. I love it when Omar breaks his guitar and picks up a tambourine tho 😂

Omar's guitar is non-operational lol

If I had a dollar for everytime I’ve shredded my voice screaming along to this album. Truly one of the greatest albums ever made.

I love Jim Wards voice so much. I’m a huge Sparta fan and I definitely pick up on his energy from this insane performance

This was taken off KZfaq for so long, glad to see it back incredible performance.

This looks ridiculously smooth for 2000 And man were they ahead of their time here.

I'll never forget how watching this at the time made me feel. As a fourteen year old, this was my Elvis on the Mitlon Berle Show or the Beatles on Ed Sullivan moment, it changed EVERYTHING.

Omar mentioned in an interview relatively recently that the “technical difficulties” on his part were all accidental in this performance. One thing led to another and he eventually just tossed the guitar aside and picked up the tambourine. The band *did* want to be there but, y’know, shit happens!

The most CHAOTIC live band I have ever seen. Three members playing normal, two members playing whatever the hell the want.

The single greatest performance in the history of Later. Utterly wonderful. Remember watching this when it went out and the camera cuts to Robbie Williams who looks like he's about to shit himself.

They cut off Robbie Williams asking for the chair back at the end 😂

God I absolutely adore this one. Such a chaos and Jim Ward there serious af just ignoring it

Could never put my finger on this one. Sounds atrocious but at the same time also is absolute mint.

just to summarize what happened in this show (courtesy of Cedric on a podcast a few years ago): Omar dropped his guitar right before the song, knocking it completely out of tune, and their guitar tech hadn’t finished restringing the back up guitar and didn’t have enough time to tune omars guitar so he had to just play it ridiculously out of tune. so in response to that, cedric acted extra wild and crazy to make up for it.

love how the applause is taken...from another dimension

ATDI - One Armed Scissor (no guitar/lead vocals)

This is the single most important punk rock band of the last 25 years, people said of the velvet underground 'not many people bought the LP but everyone who did started a band'. This was the case for ATDI when I was a 16 year old kid I the early 2000s. One day everyone listened to nu metal and didn't think they were good enough to be in a band, the next they realised it didn't matter and started their own. Honestly every single person in my fairly large friend group after they saw this formed a band, me included. After I heard them I cut my hair, changed my clothing style, started reading different books and changed the way I played guitar. Everyone went from bar chords to dowtuned single note shit to hard strumming crazy jazz chords in disjointed timings really fast over night. It was more I the spirit of the barchird grunge and punk we grew up on with a bigger weight to it like the metal but far far more experimental than anything we knew, it was the best of everything we'd heard. Even people who weren't even that into them formed bands cause they made everything feel possible again. We all sounded like them a bit too! The nirvana of my generation for sure.

Absolutely incredible. As raw as it gets

In my opinion this is the best live appearance ever on Later ..legendary

cut off 10 seconds too soon because watching Robbie Williams having to directly follow this was a great telly moment

I don't know why but I keep coming back to this

It’s hard to describe how thrilling this was to watch on tv at the time of broadcast. I’d never seen anything like it. It’s still utterly compelling now. I was too young to have been into nirvana first time around, but instead grew up on britpop. This came just as many Britpop bands were in the wane and just felt like really strong espresso in terms of guitar music. I was beside myself when I finally got to see them play live a few years ago.

The performance that inspired me to grab my first chair and figure out how to play it.

Wild to see this in HD. looks and sounds like a modern band from today. Just goes to show how ahead of the curve these guys were 20+ years ago

These guys and The International Noise Conspiracy were on a different level when playing live 20 years ago. Saw them both and they were absolutely spectacular. It makes me happy that I was lucky enough to witness these 2 bands

I bought their album solely because of watching this performance. IIRC didn’t they cut to Robbie Williams straight after with a ‘how the hell do I follow that?’ expression on his face..

This legendary performance is finally back on KZfaq! Yes!!!

one of the best moments in tv history

Just to be clear: this was not a protest against music industry, television or musivision. This was pure, perfect marketing. And, in my opinion, it was amazing.

Jim holding the ship together. You've got to give it to him, keeping everything going and having a blast at the same time.

Been waiting for this one to come back up for a long time. Some performance! And arguably the best in JH history. Jim Ward somehow managing to keep the chaos together right till the last, glorious stuff!

When you look up "raw" in a dictionary, you find this as an example

Beautiful messy fuzzy wiry noisy chaos, my hat peark ATDI were majestic titans.

In an odd way its so captivating and mesmerizing that you cant help but watch the madness unfold. Its strangely brilliant to watch the chaotic mess commence as everything falls apart.

Despite the chaos... it does all kinda hang together

Thanks to the book "Sell Out" I am just getting into this band. They were freaking maniacs in concert

Unironically my favorite rendition of this song, hands down 🫡

My hometown of El Paso Texas left a big impression on this stage

Such an awesome quality vid of ATDI. Also it really must of sucked playing live with Omar back then.

Everytime some asks me if I can play guitar, I say yes and show them Omar in this video. "Sounds just like that".

Deranged. Uninhibited. Chaotic. Frenetic. Brilliant

FOLKS! They heard our call and saw the petition on the previous ATDI upload! Rejoice!

Love that I have been watching their Conan and Letterman performance of this on repeat for the last week and now this just got uploaded. Amazing!

It’s back up! Praise the Lord!

Such a brilliant brilliant band. I was gutted when they broke up. Reforming 17 years later without Jim Ward didn’t work. I will always remember this era of at the drive in. I would even go as far as to say relationship of command is even better than Nevermind.

Pay for the experience and energy. And the great thing here, can't discount omar and cedric as musical geniuses as well.

A force of nature 🤣 love it !

I saw this when it was broadcast and knowing the song quite well, actually found it the most tuneful thing that evening.

Remarkable that they all finished together, after having all been playing completely different songs.

Omar’s playing is the embodiment of “there are no wrong notes.”

I empathise extremely deeply with their drummer.

The energy on stage always in a league of its own

Favourite live tv performance ever!

Quality, I remember when that aired, I think I was about 16, then seen them in Dublin around the same time too; Relationship of Command is a timeless album for me. Chefs kiss.

I just need it now and then. Calms me down when im pissed off too much..

actually a flawless perfomance

Can anybody tell me what Robbie Williams said when their performance started after this? I cannot tell, even i’ll never forget his face 🤣

Omar doing his best impression of your dad missing every note on Guitar Hero.

This takes me back, and i regret not seing them live . Much love from the middle of nowhere NSW Australia

Best performance by any band ever.

Greatest performance in Jools Holland history

Hahaha holy shit, 5 seconds in with Omar immediately flailing his guitar around always has me in stitches. It sets the tone for what's to come so well.

You haven't truly watched this until you watched it at double speed

I used to watch this daily before it got removed. So glad it's back in glorious HD. What a moment in time.

It's a masterpiece

Beautiful chaos.

I saw this on tv at the time. I was like 13 years old and had no musical reference for anything I was seeing haha. I got the album a couple years later and it just changed my whole musical identity

It's such an organized mess. I love it.

I used to listen to this album and wonder how the guitarists could remember all the different parts to the songs, which stomp boxes to stomp and when. Turns out they didn't even try to remember!

Superb behaviour 👌👍

I remember it well. Robbie Williams was on the same night - haha! Omfg he shat his pants after AtD demolished everyone's brain.

Que energia do caralho. Que falta faz bandas assim hoje no Rock mundial.

This is some advanced shit ong The way this is a showcase for the chaos of Omar’s guitar. The way he lost his first one like a minute into the song. It’s abrasive and noise and mess but it comes together so perfectly in these moments, it’s like some jagged art piece I love it

Omar ditching the guitar (violently) for the tambourine is amazing

3:15 Tambourine solo 🧨

And here i was foolishly thinking the studio version of the song was chaotic...

relationship of command is still one if my favourite albums of this era….unfortunately the boys weren’t that serious about making a career of it….what could have been

This is like my kids at the dinner table every night (3yo and 4yo)

Imagine being the cameraman and these dudes throwing stuff and themselves around.

I bet a lot of people go up to them after shows and say "has anybody ever told you that you look exactly like the guys from The Mars Volta?"

You know its bad when Cedric is the one trying to keep it all together. Baby Omar went way too hard on this.

I remember watching this video about 2 weeks after it came out here on youtube, it sent me down the rabbit hole of ATDI and the mars Volta, definitley changed my music taste for the better

Omfg. Love that moment when Omar just chunks his fucking guitar out into the crowd. Every performance of theirs was legendary