The Dream Academy Life Northern Town & Love Parade on 80s Tv

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16 жыл бұрын

Take a trip back to a classic era in music when The Dream Academy ruled the airwaves. Nick Laird-Clowes, Gilbert Gabriel, and Kate St. John introduce their first two singles off their 1985 self-titled album to America. Gotta love the actual spoken bits in between.
Check out what the old band members have been doing since. Gilbert Gabriel is now in a new band called Melt21 and are they are set to release an exciting album shortly. He is also recording with Basia in Poland. Check out: www.myspace.com/melt21 Also, Nick Laird Clowes is going to be releasing his sophmore Trashmonk album as well later this year. The best website on TDA is run by Brent and is here: www.theacf.com/dreamac/. And come join over 300 Dream Academy fans on our e-mail list: launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/...

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@bobstewart8032 25 күн бұрын

I'm a mostly a classic rock, hard rock, and metal music guy, but I've always liked Dream Academy music.

@Baskerville22 7 жыл бұрын

The guy on the drums earned his pay

@jaggass 5 жыл бұрын

Even though he was miming.

@tomservo75 4 жыл бұрын

I know I was just about to say that, I can't get enough of that percussionist, I don't care if that sounds weird.

@erwindeleon618 3 жыл бұрын

great percussionist, yep original miming to get the audio feed right, but he did it in the studio, can't fake that

@arthurdonachy 2 жыл бұрын

aye ,he definitely put a shift in there

@prometheus5700 6 жыл бұрын

Kate is unbelievable. From another solar system.

@LanceVanceDance84 3 жыл бұрын

I hate to be that guy and I don't mean for this to sound like I'm being a dick, but the correct term here would be planetary system. There's only one solar system, and it's the one we're in. It got its name from the sun's Greek name, Sol. Though I will admit that "solar system" rolls off the tongue a bit better. But with that out of the way, I 100% agree. Her beauty is otherworldly.

@prometheus5700 2 жыл бұрын

@@LanceVanceDance84 Noted

@deejaquila6407 24 күн бұрын

@@LanceVanceDance84 Oh, admit it. You loved it. 🤣 Because… Ya kno’… You’re right. Lol 😂

@LanceVanceDance84 23 күн бұрын

@@deejaquila6407 I mean sure lol, it is a great way to describe her stunning beauty after all. I guess I just like to inform people of the correct terminology for certain things, in the hopes that someone can possibly learn something new and then go on to use the correct term/saying/grammar/etc. in the future rather than continuing to use the often-used wrong...whatever lol. It's not due to some feelings of superiority on my part or anything like that, I just genuinely want to spread knowledge where it appears that some may potentially be needed, perhaps out of some vain hope I have of making some sort of minuscule difference in shaping this world into an even smarter and overall better place.

@steverichards575 2 жыл бұрын

I want to be 16 again in those fabulous 60’’s. One beautiful song of youth in a decent part of history .

@haljalykakik2384 2 жыл бұрын

I first heard this song when Dream Academy were the musical guests on Saturday Night Live (and actually played it LIVE, not lip-synched like it is here on AB). I went out the next day and bought the (vinyl) record. I still have it in my collection and still play it to this day. Great record, great band!

@custodio190 Ай бұрын

Hermoso tema, me produce Nostalgia.

@toycharger 4 жыл бұрын

The blond on the keyboard and singing back up is Martha Ladly. She was in Martha and the Muffins, The Associates and Roxy Music.

@wesharwood4553 3 жыл бұрын

Echo Beach forever!

@jeffreybarkin3177 2 жыл бұрын

The Dream Academy will hopefully return to Tourng. Beautifully crafted songs that seem to penetrate our souls, with memorable harmonies and reminiscent lyrics. What INCREDIBE Performances!!! .

@BLACK8PHOENIX Жыл бұрын

Beautiful makes me want to be a teenager again

@springhillgolfer878 6 жыл бұрын

Love the Oboe player, Kate St. John. She's really attractive. I was in high school when this song came out. I remember listening to it on Top 40 radio. I think it came out in winter.

@RobertoGonzalez-tn9ji 2 жыл бұрын

Inolvidables 80's.

@thomasconway6843 3 жыл бұрын

Great music and vocals throughout. They solidified their place a long time ago!

@michaelwentworth4900 5 жыл бұрын

This album will be played at my funeral. All of it.

@angiecolmar1972 4 жыл бұрын

Mine too. Planned that shit yrs ago. High five to going out in style.

@daniellastuart3145 4 жыл бұрын

On my favourite Album of all times

@Goodbyeeveryonehere 3 жыл бұрын

Hopefully that will be a very long time away from now.

@RebeccaKey 7 жыл бұрын

Nick Laird Clowes was one of my first teenage crushes. I was madly in love with this band.

@robertnycguyraisedonrecord7587 6 жыл бұрын

This Top 10 hit stood out in the Top 40 at the time with its 60's feel. I heard it on the radio and went and got the album on viyl of course in Tower Records in NYC in 1985, I still have the copy in minty condition. I wonder what they look like today, Oh the passing years. Great times

@michaelwentworth4900 5 жыл бұрын

Here they are Robert and live... and without Gilbert Gabriel, sadly. >kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aZOUoJaltpnLj5c.html

@ChromazoneArt Жыл бұрын

Love the percussion!

@bernardpeek9841 3 жыл бұрын

Benedict Hoffnung the percussionist was a professor of tympani at the Royal Academy of Music. The vocals from Life In A Northern Town were sampled by Dario G for the track Sunchyme. That's worth listening to.

@nohaylamujer 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this tip!

@choro1981 3 жыл бұрын

I used to watch AB every Saturday morning,thank you Dick Clark,may you RIP.

@AdventuresofmalibuandDad Жыл бұрын

Awesome 🎵 song❤

@elainelongworth5586 2 жыл бұрын

I might be in love all over again with The Dream Academy. I sure do trust my taste in music! Yes, from another solar system. Way Showers.

@damanifesto 5 жыл бұрын

I had no idea the chicks in Dream Academy were so hot!

@gtvideostudio5595 Жыл бұрын

Que lindos recuerdos de mi infancia me trae esta banda. Una música fresca y letras con poesía. Ellos los hacen su música divertida

@upstatenydude8322 4 жыл бұрын

I need to make myself clear here. I'm first and foremost a Zep fan. I love Pink Floyd too. I have my metal strain... Maiden....Megadeath..... Motorhead, etc. I also am into all kinds of jazz and Classical from Renaissance polyphony to Rachmaninoff. All that being said I adore this band in its entirety. Their sound their feel. All of it. And yes, Kate St. John is one of those Babes for the Ages.

@dissol 3 жыл бұрын

You have good taste sir...Fool in the Rain being one of my top songs...but also a good ear; this song was co-produced by Dave Gilmour of Pink Floyd... and yes...everything you said about Kate St. John!!

@waynelandry9000 2 жыл бұрын

alcohol played a negative role in her appearance now though, so sad

@doctorgarbonzo2525 2 жыл бұрын

Ironically David Gilmore Produced these guys! Catchy stuff! He though? Man if the Thompson Twins can make it! why can't these Guys?

@orlandopadilla2464 Жыл бұрын

I'm a metal head too. But listen to everything. I was listening to pop and r&b before listening to metal

@michaelharris9694 Жыл бұрын

I couldn't agree more about Kate and the band, absolutely beautiful music and of course memories for me on this.

@quad5186 3 жыл бұрын

‘Love Parade’ deserves more love.

@carl_anderson9315 3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Also This World.

@raiderdanCA 10 жыл бұрын

Lip-synched or not, it's great to see this performance -- we get BOTH of the beautiful BLONDS, and perhaps even better -- we get the guy doing that unmistakable PERCUSSION ... beats the hell out of the majority of the posts, showing a mere "three people" putting out (allegedly) all that SOUND ... haaaa ! Great Song ...

@deansharif5068 Жыл бұрын

20 years ago I thought she was beautiful and still is x

@MrSteveG58 8 жыл бұрын

I don't why I loved this , I do!!,,

@robertmalvarez4582 2 жыл бұрын

LOVE IT

@bernsie6323 6 жыл бұрын

I decided to look this song up today for some odd reason. A friend who passed away long ago of AIDs introduced me to them. I'm glad he did. I posted this on my Facebook page today. It made me cry, as did the Judy Garland song I posted. Feeling depressingly nostalgic evidently.

@aplleyva Жыл бұрын

By Far Love Parade is my favorite song of theirs

@Calibeachgtl1024 3 жыл бұрын

Such a great song!!! Classic on american bandstand

@sharkyfish3492 2 жыл бұрын

Music is such crap now, compared to this song. This song makes you stop, and listen, reflect on the words, reflect on your own life. It’s simply amazing, strong and powerful, like music should be.

@heriatm2771 4 жыл бұрын

This music style, band and other artists like this spawned VH1.

@markcoleman7368 Жыл бұрын

Dream academy live

@PatrickFletcher 2 жыл бұрын

I was on that episode ;-)

@jamesfalkner2713 6 жыл бұрын

Word is Paul Simon liked the song. In vague form. He said the chorus was a no fail... but you had to do lyrics and the rest is history. Great one hit wonder.

@petehoskins1267 4 жыл бұрын

At the end of the song the interviewer chats with Nic who introduces the band, the guy on percussion is Not Ray Cooper and the backing vocalists is “Martha” may well be as per previous comment from “Martha & the Muffins” cheers.

@brucemattson4399 3 жыл бұрын

The singer looks like David Cassidy little brother.

@papajon376 2 жыл бұрын

Beach Boys !!!! Same same! But it is a great song!!!! Love it!

@nordanstars81 9 жыл бұрын

dirtylivin07 There have been an brilliant live version of the song on youtube before but for some reason its gone now. Maybe someone can upload it again.

@mikhailpreda 8 жыл бұрын

+nordanstars81 check my channel for the audio of that performance

@SamuelBoreas 4 жыл бұрын

Damn he was hot

@laraidah 3 жыл бұрын

10th grade. magic

@ernestgunter2726 7 жыл бұрын

The percussionist I believe is Ray Cooper.

@prometheus5700 6 жыл бұрын

That timpani player. Wow.

@MrLevinej 4 жыл бұрын

Theres a love parade for the DA

@ernestgunter2726 7 жыл бұрын

This isn't Ray, however he played on one version of this.

@patriciaguadalupe1056 5 жыл бұрын

whem music still was performed with instruments

@darkmantis69 4 жыл бұрын

but this was lipsynced.. still excellent

@chainamarie03 2 жыл бұрын

Never heard of this group before. Whatever happened to them?

@SuperEcwchampion 11 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I'm sure this is live. The wind here sounds different from the album.

@woodykelleher9253 2 жыл бұрын

Opps! Her hand slipped on the accordion!

@SunRey69 13 жыл бұрын

I love that song but I'm a bit desapointed that it's playback.

@dirtylivin07 11 жыл бұрын

Specifically though, where would that wind sound effect be coming from? Usually when a song has some weird sampled sound the band will just leave it out when playing it live. This is lip synced.

@joewilson9962 4 жыл бұрын

Of course it is.

@tommullen6417 6 жыл бұрын

At 4.00 the fellas running behind the percussionist we’re lucky not to get battered with his drumsticky thingies.

@JamesBaldwinhome 10 жыл бұрын

lip-synced, but the marimba was live, and that was really odd for AB.

@MyTimmy75 10 жыл бұрын

Your message sounded lip synced ;), lol

@woolfy02 4 жыл бұрын

I still haven't found a true 'live' version

@clifffraser7433 3 жыл бұрын

My God Dick Clark was a dork in his early days.

@carl_anderson9315 3 жыл бұрын

His early days were the 50s, but yeah lol

@nohaylamujer 2 жыл бұрын

Benedict Hoffnung = HOT

@mikerabadan4787 3 жыл бұрын

Just to think David Gilmour played the guitar

@dirtylivin07 11 жыл бұрын

Another lip synced version! My search continues for a good quality live performance of this song...

@darkmantis69 4 жыл бұрын

yup! no way does it sound that good .. i'm glad i'm not the only one thinking this also

@Aussie00 3 жыл бұрын

I did see a vid of "life in a northern town" filmed in concert in Ireland, out was the best but can't find it now😭

@justaddwata 3 жыл бұрын

how I love the song. but can only find one live performance - everything else is lip synced.

@connorstreet6733 3 жыл бұрын

Up until a few years ago, the only live performance of The Dream Academy that was known was their famous 1985 Saturday Night Live performance of Life in a Northern Town. They did go on a small tour "of the sheds" of UK in 1990-91 for their A Different Kind of Weather album but as far as I am aware no know audio or video exists of those shows. Then Nick and Kate without Gilbert played some gigs in Japan as The Dream Academy in 2017. Some of those performances have made their way onto KZfaq and are awesome and include Hampstead Girl, Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want, and LiaNT. They still saw amazing after all these years.

@EthanJohn1986 8 жыл бұрын

I think i just realized for some reason the girl in the background is the girl in the video....not tha girl in front

@Marcel_Audubon 6 жыл бұрын

you're nuts

@enriquemacatonavarrete8266 12 күн бұрын

Lip sinc again? Huhuhuh

@clifffraser7433 3 жыл бұрын

When they give you an accordion and say "please don't play it"

@annecasey1283 Жыл бұрын

Ahead of their time

@hambone8080 16 жыл бұрын

In 1933 if felt like the world would freeze with mussolini and the blizkrieg

@MrLevinej 4 жыл бұрын

He's singing 1963 not 33

@Nigelxman 8 жыл бұрын

Nicely done = Great lip synching.

@dudedudeson3447 5 жыл бұрын

WRONG you can hear the intake of breath through the live Mic. not fake

@darkmantis69 4 жыл бұрын

@@dudedudeson3447 where ? This is totally synced. No way does a live performer sound that good that far away from his mic, especially back then. and especially at the end of the song, it fades perfectly like a studio track, real instruments aren't just faded out and they aren't hooked up to a massive mixer / sound board somewhere.. either way, i love the song, love the band.. Not a knock on them at all, it's like when you see some on stage performer like Britney, Justin, Michael Jackson running all around and singing perfect and not running out of breath. um yeah.. No idea why that just popped up in my head, but whatever hahaha.

@dudedudeson3447 4 жыл бұрын

@@darkmantis69 Never heard of someone called Madonna ? how about Michael Jackson or George Michael?? fucking idiot

@dudedudeson3447 4 жыл бұрын

@@darkmantis69 by the way the comment was lip syncing not instrument synch. LOSER