Sunday Evening Video: The Jam Live In 1982, Restored Again

Since we have moved PopCult to an undisclosed location, away from the Charleston Gazette-Mail, I have been trying to go back and clean up broken links, missing graphics, and videos that have been yanked from YouTube. Tonight we bring you another one of those videos, originally posted here in August, 2014.

The thing is, I restored this previously four-and-a-half years ago, but that video has once again disappeared. So we’re hoping that the third time’s the charm, and this time it’ll stick around for a while I’ve gone back and plugged this video into that spot too, but since I’d gone to the trouble, I figured I’d give it an encore, because it’s that good).

Also, this version is six minutes longer, so…YAY!

Enjoy The Jam, Live At Bingley Hall, Birmingham, England from 1982. Go back 44 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. 

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