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Jules Holland was a host....Stewart Copeland did theme, I think the theme was called "Theme for a Kinetic Space Ritual" from his Klark Kent days. I can't remember the name of the show but I do believe that IRS label funded it cause I saw Wall of Voodoo, Oingo Boing who are or were IRS labelmates. I remember a cocktail glass tipping over or something like that....was it called "The Cutting Edge"? I'd sure like to get my hands on those shows. Anybody?

― Max Murdoc, Friday, 20 May 2005 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Peter Zaremba was the host.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Peter Zaremba from the Fleshtones....who also was on IRS. Was the name of the show "The Cutting Edge"?

― Max Murdoc, Friday, 20 May 2005 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

"the cutting edge," yes. and jools holland served as host for a short time before zaremba took over. mtv has a thing about people named jools or jules launching shows and then being shown the door.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

In all fairness, Jules Shear was a lousy host.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I wasn't aware that Jules Shear was a host too....but I must admit that "Phonetiks" by Jules and the Polar Bears is still a great album. As for his solo stuff....eh.

― Max Murdoc, Friday, 20 May 2005 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, Jules Shear was the original host of Unplugged.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

jules shear was a spotty songwriter/recording artist at best. but he had some great peaks. and i liked him as the host of "unplugged," doing his anti-mtv, singing-songs-around-the-campfire thing with marty willson-piper, squeeze, syd straw, etc. i loved how underproduced it was. and this was around the time of his best album at the time, the one he made with marty willson-piper, so the songs he sang himself on the show were often pretty good!

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Shears and Willson-Piper? I missed that.....the thickening of smoke clouded my head around that time. Yeah, that would have been a good set.

― Max Murdoc, Friday, 20 May 2005 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Funny, that Shear record was on I.R.S., too.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

the album they made together is called the third party. circa 1989. it's credited as a jules album but marty's all over it. it's all acoustic, which was a nice change after jules' horribly misguided attempts at dance-pop and other such stuff.

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and, yup, it's on I.R.S.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

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