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  • From: "Margaret Campbell" <margaretc AT gmail.com>
  • To: "RTP-area local music and culture" <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Urgh!
  • Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:11:23 -0500

Yeah, I got my Brit DVD of this on eBay. The VHS American copy I bought
years ago, probably pre-net, even. The editions have some different acts,
and the version on VH1 had even more different acts.

And I'm older than you--I remember seeing it in the theater. Repeatedly.
[g]

On 10 Dec 2006 18:29:25 -0800, stablenet AT gmail.com <stablenet AT gmail.com>
wrote:

There are bootleg copies available from various sources. I bought my
DVD on Ebay, and gave my VHS copy to a friend.

We all watched the hell out of this leading up to the Cover Up because
we did Gary Numan this year. His ridiculous but fantastic performance
in Urgh! was one of the reasons we chose to do him.

Schoolkids in Chapel Hill had a used copy recently. Run over there ASAP
and you may score.

I grew up in Greenville. ECU used to show this film every so often, so
I caught it on the big screen a few times. Seeing Gang of Four do "He'd
Send In The Army" changed the way I thought about music.
I'm still a hugh Echo and the Bunnymen fan, and XTC convinced me that
hard rock was not the way I wanted to go musically. Literally a life
changing film.

-A



Margaret Campbell wrote:
> I remember talking about this movie a goodly while ago here. Too late,
but
> they ran it on VH-1 tonight.
>
> Oddly enough, I own both the American and the British version (the copy
of
> the latter probably illegal), and the VH-1 copy has yet more bits I've
never
> seen.
>
> How many versions of this are there?
>
> --
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