Quo on "Top of the Pops" archive (WIP)

From what I recall, John Henshall had the Jean Genie clip as an orphaned one himself because of the fisheye lense used - he was the camera operator and wanted to keep a copy as an example of his work. Something like that anyway.

I'm a member of the Kaleidoscope group on Facebook; it's an excellent place for questions and it's probably the best place to find out when new finds of lost material are announced. There's also the missingepisodes forum where things from them, as well as "Missing Believed Wiped" and finds from other archives are discussed and announced; it's a fairly active forum when there's things to discuss.

It's through these sources that I found out about the potential of the surviving Paper Plane from that show. It's a home video recording and could be in awful condition, but we also may never know. It's certainly better than nothing. There have been a lot of things found that then require extensive work and expertise to even try and get them to play or be watchable. For example, a bunch of tapes were announced a while back that included a load of performances from "Lift Off..", including another infamous Bowie performance. This has yet to show up even though there's huge interest in it. A couple of Sweet recordings have emerged, and a few bits have been show at events - take a look here for just how ropey the quality is.

With regards to knowing about the surviving Down Down "Pan's People" routine, there's a forum called 'One For The Dads' that is the best place for this. Again, despite it having been announced as found and there being huge interest in the Quo video, this has yet to turn up online.

Interesting to see him say that the episode exists. I hope he's not mistaken there!

If it's the whole thing it'd be interesting to know if it's the whole show intact, or just the songs.

The source I saw regarding a recovery simply listed the following:



Thanks for your efforts looking into this.

I think there's unfortunately a bit of profiteering with wiped/recovered material; kind of the idea that if you don't pay them that for it, you can't get it from anywhere else.

I'd also guess that in some cases KAL etc have had to pay money to people to get the recordings preserved and digitised, and they want to see a return on that.

There's almost certainly a frustratingly large amount out there in the hands of people basically hoarding their tapes and demanding and ridiculous money for them; again knowing their uniqueness and rarity. The PVL is a good example, and there's lessons to be learnt from it too.

Iirc there was one guy who had a huge number of tapes but refused to part without crazy money changing hands. When he died, his wife started throwing the tapes away.

There's a recording of paper plane they did on top of the pops on 13.9.2002 it was unbroadcast at the time but it appears on the RIFFS DVD

Correct. They did a session in May 2000 and in October 2000. That is not from 2002.

I've got the performances of All Stand Up, RAOTW and Jam Side Down from 2002.

Am I right in saying there were four sessions around this time?

Two in 2000 and two in 2002?

I'd say 3, actual sessions. May / October 2000 and the All Stand Up / RAOTW 2002 session. The only thing live about the Jam Side Down performance was Rossi's vocals.

The vocals for the performance of Let's Work Together were also live over the album track, rather than an instrumental mix. I think they possibly did a performance of I Didnt Mean It with live vocals. Not too sure.