The Movies: the band that Time just remembered

HELLO

First album pic

If you're interested to know how this old material was recovered from its ancient, crackly and melted media, then try this page.

Revox serviced by Eastern Electronics. Thank you, Nigel. Magnificent!

You should hear The Movies.

We are looking mainly at old vinyl and a bunch of tapes, some with unreleased material, and some live tracks. The vinyl (especially the first two albums) is in bad shape. We have tried to remove the noise, but there's not much you can do about that crack in the one copy you have, made by some twit with a beer glass in 1982. The condition of the tapes is as bad. Tape of this period is known to drop oxide, for lubricants to wear out, and for the sound gradually to turn to mud.

The material, as single tracks in MP3 format, is accessible via menu options at the top of this page. The shortest track is less than 2MB and the longest (video tracks) is over 30MB. I hope you have broadband.

Quality may sometimes be low, because of that media condition and our own lack of high-quality conversion tools. Generally, the older the track, the lower the quality. But this should improve over time. The first approach is in bulk, with limited time and a quantity of material. There will be time later for fine-tuning.

This material is not simply given away for you to do with what you like. Copyright remains with the copyright holders, and where that is unclear it defaults to a member or members of the band who took part in the recording of the work. The material is made available for your personal use only, and is not to be further copied nor by any means transferred to a third party. You should understand that - and we assume your agreement - before you download from this site. If we detect infringement of that rule then we will have to make this site Copyright Holders Only.

Now, to go back in Time...