They cared so much about their fans and always let a few into sound checks. Top guys.

Cant believe how many they allowed in for a sound check..that is so good see, a band with a big heart!

Always let their fans into sound checks. Bloody brilliant. Looks like it as filmed yesterday

Imagine we'd had access to this in the 80s and 90s. It was difficult enough to find snap on vhs. KZfaq is brilliant for this.

Went t see them on this tour at Newcastle city hall more people in their soundchecks than most bands today get at gigs .Legends.

The Jam were so good, even when sound checking!

how lovely for those well behaved young fans back then to have been invited in, bet they are still made up over it. Fantastic gesture the Jam used to do. Top blokes !

The jam today would fill stadiums

still canny get over how great they were.

I was actually there, bunked off school to catch it what memories, best band in the world

cant tell you how much I would have given to see this and be in a sound check.

loved the soundchecks​, really informal, fantastic memories...

Weller: always the coolest cat in the room. Excellent post, Aceface!

saw the last gig in Toronto , still have the tour brochure and The Gift record. Awesome.

This footage is now 40 yrs old, yet it looks like it could have been recorded this morning on a smartphone. What an amazing band.

love this.

5:45 rip headphones users

Ohh, what i would give to have seen them live!

I was there at Bingley ! Was billed as being their last gig ever, but then they played one last time at Brighton, just added on at the end as a Goodbye i guess ! I could not get down there (

so happy this was caught on film, lucky guys there watching this

I was lucky to see almost the same soundcheck in Toronto

Looks like whitley bay ice rink and me and my mates were at the front, happy days.

Wow excellent

I went to the loo at the Brighton centre way before the gig started and a big hairy bloke came in and asked me and my mate if we wanted to go in for the sound check, of course we said yesss, little boy soldiers was the first full tune they checked... ah memories

Oh thanks for posting this clip...so intimate. I'd personally would have liked to heard an entire "Tales from the Riverbank".

sound check is like a soundtrack of my youth at any point youre waiting for weller to say one...two...three...four...

If it is Bingley Hall, I saw them the night before at the Manchester Apollo. Also 3 years earlier at Blackburn King Georges Hall with The Vapors as support support

So cold in there you can see their breath!

I saw them on this tour 👍

Remember seeing this tour at Queens Hall Leeds, similar spot, big car park normally but packed out for the concert

A rare clip! Thanks!

soundcheck in leicester 81,they did a few they did a few songs then weller said 'any requests'....a few shouted jam songs out,when it went quiet my mate shouted 'my generation' on that weller left the stage...they were good sports though when they all signed the side panel of his vespa

Dave Liddle in his Iron Maiden shirt!!! The Jam and Maiden, the two bands I grew up on!!!!

More interesting than I first thought!👌🎵

Foxton with the 6 string piccolo bass!

Banging tune

Amazing. Thanks so much

This is great to see. Thank you.

raw and genius

how cool is he

Was at Whitleybay I've rink this in September 82

sounds like ......that's entertainment

fuckin timeless. wot a band

Foxton ...the worlds coolest man in his crombie....

its i dont know? simply calming

Great to see loyal Dave Liddle the guitar tech on a film clip.The best mod hippy punk metal tech nice gent.

Incrível essa a banda

Sunday night? I was at the sound check the Saturday... think he was wearing a red jacket? stood by him as a 16 year old, bottled it to talk....

Weller stole them pants, and Rupert wants them back!

It's alright, his nail is a bit broken!. Wow this is the shizzle. Those boys on brass. Fucking amazing vid.

How cold is it in there?! You can see his breath while he's singing. It'd suck to sound check in the cold like that but they still sound great!

There's something about it being hand-held that makes it seem strangely very recent, not 34 years ago.

what other band would /could do this.such a massive following in brum must explain why so many post's come from the bingley hall gig.though i am biased i refuse to complain.don't care where there the footage come's from, as long as it come's.

Brilliant post as usual Aceface! Keep em coming, where did you find this fella?

What a little gem 💎 thanks for posting. Is that the Bingley Agricultural Hall in Stafford? Also Thin Lizzie used to let us in to their SC’s. Happy days.😷😎😁

theaceface, thank you, Sat or Sunday night mate? Thank you

Dave liddle there 5th season 👍

cheers mate

Iknow its auto wah but i still dont get how he plays the strings and gets the sound

Bit sad how it's turning out ?

prefur this to overplayed Town called malice, underated song .

Innocuous setting but he mashes Precious.

Its so cold they had the coats on. Turn up the heat! Who are the blokes on the horns?

Which venue? Looks like Stafford bingley hall?

Is the guitar sound on Precious an automatic wah? There's no pedal action.

Im there in the crowd 🙈

Great clip. Where was this filmed, Looks like Birmingham or Stafford Bingley Hall?

God, remember when I bought the album. I'd got the money for it by tapping the birds up at the youth club the night before

Back when weller wasn't pretentious

No reaction from the crowd when they start playing "Precious"? Nothing? Why don't they know this song?

not much camaraderie between them here.

Why was it so cold in there? You can see their breath.

simply one of the best songs EVER take the Blues and make it Cool Asif by magic I am a Wizard but not a magician I am at 2:02 furthest right- see how I did that? Fugg, I was bored and left a few minutes later- it was embarrassing how long my heroes took to tune up- the specially designed for music auditorium was truly terrible- must have been designed by an ex-QC big Ego'd twat

Where s that? Looks like the Ally Pally

I am in that crowd somewhere

the riff at 2:39, what song is that

Weller's guitar work, though.

Maybe Paul shoulda took Bruce to one side and said " sort yer hair out" or summat along those lines...Bruce was a great bass player snd backing singer, but maybe, back then, people couldn't see depth, in shallowness?

(1) Why the coats inside? (2) Looks like a junior high school crowd. And not a large turnout, at that. (3) this is when the Jam became no-longer-the Jam, with the jazzed up ensemble.

still canny get over how great they were.