Heavy Fuel video Clip (feat. Chris Whitten)

[Jules]

It seems there is no bootleg available from that show. Was Heavy Fuel played only at the end or was it played twice? Seems to be a strange ending for the show?

LE

A friend of mine told me he attended one of the Sheffield shows and So Far Away was played.

[rmarques821]

It seems there is no bootleg available from that show. Was Heavy Fuel played only at the end or was it played twice? Seems to be a strange ending for the show?

LE

A friend of mine told me he attended one of the Sheffield shows and So Far Away was played.

Birmingham too, and Halifax in March 1992. And probably a few more times that we just don't have the info.

[YorkshirePudding]

They definitely only played it once, and it didn't seem strange when you were there. The crowd had been on their feet and clapping for the whole of the encore songs (in fact the whole gig had had a good atmosphere generally) and it was a good rocking song to finish the show with. When they started it, I thought it might be Solid Rock but once it got going it was obviously a new song. I am guessing they moved it to the end so that the crowd were at their most lively for the filming maybe?

I've not seen any recordings in circulation of any of the Sheffield shows - nor the other show I saw on that tour at Gateshead 92 - which I am sort of pleased about. I think hearing a (probably poor quality) recording would spoil my memories of the shows somehow.

As I said in my original post, we did get some rarities that particular night, although early in the tour they mixed the set up a lot more before it settled down. Iron Hand came over really well as a new song, WICTY which I already knew from the Hillbillies (I remember Danny coming down from his percussion rig and dancing around the stage with a tambourine during this one) and then Setting Me Up in the encores.

OES itself also sounded really good - I think Calling Elvis was the only new song that I knew at that point.

[dustyvalentino]

To much to expect you to remember details of a song you had never heard before 34 years ago, but I'm assuming that for practical video reasons they would be miming to a playback of the track?

[YorkshirePudding]

To much to expect you to remember details of a song you had never heard before 34 years ago, but I'm assuming that for practical video reasons they would be miming to a playback of the track?

Even though I have only just started posting on the forum, as a fairly obsessed get-a-lifer as far as MK/DS
goes, these details are important to me And I was only eighteen and seeing DS/MK for the first time so doubly excited about the whole thing.

They definitely weren’t lip-syncing to a playback or anything like that, they just simply played HF as the last song in the set. In the final video I don’t think they tried to match the live performance with the record, the video is just a bunch of random clips of the show really. The woman running onto the stage happened really quickly and I didn’t even realise that it was part of their filming.

None of it impacted on the show itself

[dustyvalentino]

To much to expect you to remember details of a song you had never heard before 34 years ago, but I'm assuming that for practical video reasons they would be miming to a playback of the track?

Even though I have only just started posting on the forum, as a fairly obsessed get-a-lifer as far as MK/DS
goes, these details are important to me And I was only eighteen and seeing DS/MK for the first time so doubly excited about the whole thing.

They definitely weren’t lip-syncing to a playback or anything like that, they just simply played HF as the last song in the set. In the final video I don’t think they tried to match the live performance with the record, the video is just a bunch of random clips of the show really. The woman running onto the stage happened really quickly and I didn’t even realise that it was part of their filming.

None of it impacted on the show itself

Interesting, many thanks. Been a while since I watched the video to be fair.

[Billy’s Tune]

And all the antics of chasing the girl on the stage, knocking keyboard risers over etc. I assume that didn’t happen live so that was just a studio take added in? Did Randy Quaid run across the stage?

[Chris W]

I don't think there was any studio take. Obviously they used cheap guitars and keyboards, not the kit we used in the show.

[YorkshirePudding]

And all the antics of chasing the girl on the stage, knocking keyboard risers over etc. I assume that didn’t happen live so that was just a studio take added in? Did Randy Quaid run across the stage?

He didn’t run around the stage chasing the girl up the stairs towards Guy and Chris. That must have been shot before the show and then edited in. The girl just kind of ran towards Mark and then got picked up and taken off. It all happened very quickly.

We were too far back to really recognise Randy Quaid, and the odd times he did go on the stage (which you see in the final video cut) I thought he was an actual roadie doing techie stuff!

[drparkinson]

Another question for Chris on this time period please:
 
Regarding the promo video for "The Bug".

Do you have any recollections of the band portions of the shoot and when and where it may have taken place?

Thanks very much.

[Chris W]

No, I actually don't.
 

[MK_live]

The info I got many years ago is this;
During the Saturday show (31st August), members of the audience were given tickets to attend the Arena the following Monday (2nd September) daytime for the filming of the video for the Heavy fuel single.

It sounds logical, but now read a complete different story, which was HIGHLY interesting to read. Maybe they recorded parts during a special daytime show and parts during the actually concert? Wish there alwas a bootleg of 2nd September 1991 now!

[YorkshirePudding]

The info I got many years ago is this;
During the Saturday show (31st August), members of the audience were given tickets to attend the Arena the following Monday (2nd September) daytime for the filming of the video for the Heavy fuel single.

It sounds logical, but now read a complete different story, which was HIGHLY interesting to read. Maybe they recorded parts during a special daytime show and parts during the actually concert? Wish there alwas a bootleg of 2nd September 1991 now!

Maybe stuff was filmed through the day with a "crowd" but not used in the final video? All of the clips prior to the show seem to be just in the empty arena and then it's pretty clear which shots were taken at the live show, and which were done prior during the day.

Even a bootleg video probably wouldn't reveal too much - as I said in my original post, the only thing I noticed during the show was when a cameraman appeared on the stage from time to time, obviously just getting little clips of each band member which would be stitched together in the final video (I was hoping that maybe the show was being filmed similar to the Wembley 85 release, but once I saw the HF video on TV I realised what it must have been for). There was obviously at least one more camera filming from the back of the arena but I didn't see any others.

Other than that, the only difference to the actual show was the fact that HF was played last (and I didn't even know that that was unusual at the time). They played the usual encores (MFN, SMU, BIA) and then when they came out again MK just said something about "doing a bit of filming" before they played HF. Even during that song, the only noticeable thing that happened was the woman running onto the stage, but that happened very quickly. Probably if you were right at the front you might have seen them setting that up, and maybe also recognised Randy Quaid, but we were a little way back and on the opposite side of the stage (in front of John).

[Chris W]

My memory is that the filming happened on the day of a show, a few hours before the show.
I'm not sure we had spare days between shows on that part of the tour.
Obviously they could film with Randy Quaid at any time we weren't there.
We also filmed the song with Randy doing his antics, and they may have filmed us playing the song during the actual show too.