Guy Garvey: From the Vaults
Guy Garvey: From the Vaults

Guy Garvey: From the Vaults

2020 5 Seasons 20 Episodes ⭐ 8.2 Documentary

Elbow frontman and broadcaster Guy Garvey lifts the lid on two decades of TV gold – with era-defining musical performances, long lost studio appearances and revealing interviews that have remained on the shelves for decades. The series is centred around shows which were made by ITV companies around the country – from Tony Wilson and Granada TV’s So It Goes to Tyne Tees’ ground-breaking Channel 4 series The Tube and LWT’s The London Weekend Show - chronicling not just changing musical tastes but evolution in the UK’s social and cultural history too. The series travels from Punk and New Wave to the birth of ‘Madchester’.

Elbow frontman and broadcaster Guy Garvey lifts the lid on two decades of TV gold – with era-defining musical performances, long lost studio appearances and revealing interviews that have remained on the shelves for decades. The series is centred around shows which were made by ITV companies around the country – from Tony Wilson and Granada TV’s So It Goes to Tyne Tees’ ground-breaking Channel 4 series The Tube and LWT’s The London Weekend Show - chronicling not just changing musical tastes but evolution in the UK’s social and cultural history too. The series travels from Punk and New Wave to the birth of ‘Madchester’.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

1979

The Elbow frontman introduces music from the TV archives, starting with 1979 and unseen footage from a Kate Bush concert

EP 2

1982

Guy presents the best of 1982 - including The Jam's final TV appearance, a performance from Simple Minds, early intervie

EP 3

1977

Guy celebrates 1977 - a seminal year in British rock and pop, looking back at a long-lost Blondie performance, Marc Bola

EP 4

1984

Guy looks back at 1984 and Madonna's first British TV appearance, unseen performances from Sade and The Style Council, C

EP 5

1975

Guy dusts off throwbacks from Supersonic where Rod Stewart, Status Quo, Roxy Music and ELO made appearances. Plus, music

EP 6

1988

For the final episode, Guy looks back at 1988 and the rise of a new wave of female singer songwriters including Sinead O

EP 1

1980

The likes of The Selecter and The Beat lead the British Ska revival. Plus, early performances from U2 and Iron Maiden, a

EP 2

1983

Tina Turner's career reaches new heights thanks to The Tube. American stars like Shalamar and ZZ Top also appear. Politi

EP 3

1985

Chaka Khan and Tom Waits perform live on The Tube. Also, new series Bliss brings live sets from the likes of The Cult an

EP 4

1978

Late-night pop show Revolver welcomes a host of artists to the stage, including Ian Dury and The Boomtown Rats. Plus, pe

EP 5

1987

It's farewells all round as The Tube ends and The Smiths spit. Goth rock peaks with The Mission and Siouxsie. Plus, hits

EP 1

1989

The Elbow frontman returns to introduces more music performances from the TV archives, beginning with a selection from 1

EP 2

1976

The Elbow frontman introduces music from the TV archives from 1976, featuring Sex Pistols, the Clash, Kiss, Heart, Tom W

EP 3

1986

The Elbow frontman introduces music from the TV archives from 1986, featuring appearances by the Waterboys, Suzanne Vega

EP 4

1981

Elbow frontman Guy Garvey lifts the lid on two decades of TV gold. Here, he takes you through 1981, reflecting on the ye

EP 5

Britpop

Elbow frontman Guy Garvey lifts the lid on two decades of TV gold. Here, he takes you through music genre and culture mo

EP 1

1978 Revisited

Elbow frontman Guy Garvey returns for series four as he walks through more era-defining musical performances, long-lost

EP 2

1982 Revisited

Elbow frontman Guy Garvey walks through more era-defining musical performances, long lost studio appearances and intervi

EP 3

1984 Revisited

The Elbow frontman introduces music from the TV archives from 1984, a year that saw Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Tom Ro

EP 4

1987 Revisited

Guy revisits 1987, when performances from The Smiths and The Cure set The Tube alight. The Roxy later welcomes the likes

EP 1

Protest Songs

EP 2

1983 Revisited

EP 3

1985 Revisited

EP 4

1979 Revisited

EP 5

1988 Revisited

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