Three videos that caught my fancy today, the first two resound­ingly ancient, and one rather newer.

I’d not seen either of these two Bea­t­les clips before and they’re notable firstly for the fact that, unlike most other Fab Four clips, they actu­ally con­sist of a per­for­mance instead of crowd noise with four bob­bing mop-tops; and sec­ondly because the per­for­mances, most espe­cially from Lennon, are rather good, which runs counter to the oft spoke the­ory that they were no good live after Beat­le­ma­nia began.

The first is in Mel­bourne, on the Asia-Pacific tour that took them to NZ too. The date is June 17, 1964, and it’s the first gig back on the road for Ringo after he’d been laid up in hos­pi­tal with ton­sil­li­tis (and was replaced by the now obscure ring-in, Jimmy Nicol).

The sec­ond is from the NME win­ners gig, in Blackp­pol in 1965. For­get the rest, just look at, lis­ten to, Lennon and McCart­ney. So fuck­ing cool…

And, slightly more con­tem­po­rary, Pan­tha Du Prince , with the vid of Sat­urn Strobe, from his 2007 album, This Bliss. I love this track. I love this album. He has a new one due.….

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