Shameless reproduction of my post from JD Central - likely to reach a wider audience here...
Having just downloaded the 2 1/2 songs from Bowden Vale off SoulSeek, there are a few things worth noting: First, the intro to the footage has a 10-15 second montage of late '70s consumer advertisements, followed by the gig footage, which has the caption "A pub in Altrincham/a suburb of Manchester" "Directed by Malcolm Whitehead" and "Shot on Super 8mm". Do these bits accompany the Substance video "release"? Also, at the very end, there's a tiny snippet (of about a second) of some dark footage with what sounds like Wilderness being played - this seems, after checking the setlist of the "Factory Video Night" at Heaven in 1982, to be taken from the UP rehearsals also shot by Whitehead (since the video of Wilderness shot at the Apollo had already been shown earlier that night). This being the case, surely we can infer that the complete Whitehead film is out there, and not only that, but quite probably in the hands of the webmaster who hosted the clips a few years ago (think the address had newdawnfades in there somewhere). Any ideas who this was, any current email addresses, etc.?
Second, a fairly obvious point, granted, but since the audio footage of the What's On She's Lost Control exists, complete with broadcaster's voice-over, then surely a home recording of the video footage exists (notwithstanding the possibility of the master having been damaged in Granada's leaky store-room)?
