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Radio with Pictures - The Violent Femmes
Television (Excerpts) – 1986
Host Richard Driver introduces this short Radio With Pictures segment on the “band that made Milwaukee famous”. For the Violent Femmes it’s a long way from Wisconsin to Wellington. RWP hands control of the camera to the band: after goofing around in the ivy in front of Victoria University’s Hunter Building, the Femmes are presented with their first gold record in a nearby graveyard (New Zealand is “obviously a country with a high level of taste”). The first Femmes break up occured the following year. The band's cover of T. Rex classic ‘Children of the Revolution’ plays on the soundtrack.
It's funny how impersonal the camera is huh ... You have to give everything to the camera, but the camera gives you nothing back!– Drummer Victor DeLorenzo
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