The alternative music band Mission of Burma opened up for The Cure in Boston in 1982. They played an electrifying set of high energy music before a full house at that tiny little dungeon called the Underground. Here is a live video clip from that night: ”OK/No Way”:
http://www.kinodv.net/movies/moviepa...lyFeature.html
As a companion to MOB you can take a look at Pere Ubu and equally important avant-garde band that playing enigmatic music and influenced several generations of alternative groups including Mission of Burma.
Watch the live video clip “Birdies” filmed in Los Angeles and taken from the music video Urgh! A Music War 1981:
http://www.kinodv.net/movies/archive...u-Birdies.html
Visit the Archive Portal at KINODV and see more live video performances:
Filmed in Boston:
The Neighborhoods
Nervous Eaters
The Cure
Unnatural Axe
La Peste
Lyres
Thrills
Fabulous Billygoons
Buzzcocks
Mission of Burma
Pastiche
Human Sexual Response
Lou Miami and the Kozmetiks
The King Bees
Robin Lane and the Chartbusters
Ground Zero
Iron Liver Project
Peter Dayton Band
Additional live performance videos of bands from around the globe in the 80's … can be found in the Archive Portal as well:
The Jam
Dead Kennedys
Gang of Four
The Clash
Stiff Little Fingers
The Specials
The Stranglers
Siouxsie & the Banshees
XTC
Ian Drury and the Block Heads
The Dead Boys
Sham 69
The Ramones
Wire
The Damned
The Beat
Art of Noise
The Cramps
New Order
Violent Femmes
Richard Hell and the Voidoids
Madness
Pere Ubu
