(Note: This is a restored post of a Sunday Evening Video that appeared here ten years ago this week. The original video had fallen by the wayside,  so we fixed it here and re-present it since it’s just so darn good. The text below is updated to reflect the passage of a decade).

Enjoy The Jam, Live At Bingley Hall, Birmingham, England from 1982. Go back 42 years, when The Jam were a hot young English band that sprung out of the punk/new wave movement and spearheaded a short-lived Mod revival.  Paul Weller’s pre-Style Council band was one of those great musical entities that never quite managed to cross the Atlantic and find commercial success in the US. That doesn’t take away from the excellence of their R&B inflected, sharp British Pop-punk. 

Also, remember to keep checking PopCult for all our regular features. When this post first appeared, it teased “possible top secret surprises this week,” which turned out to be your PopCulteer flitting off to Chicago to marry his longtime love, Mel Larch.