I was in America in 81 on a school trip. We had the specials , Kim wilde, the jam. First night in the states we had a gathering and they were playing led Zeppelin, journey. The Brits could not believe the kids wanted their parents music
I feel like screaming this is so good. Loved dancing to it when I was a teenager and still loving it 41 years later. Bands nowadays are just dross compared to the likes of Heaven 17.
The song that woke me up about political issues in the 1980's when there was the institutionalized systematic mental oppression of Thatcher - Reagan - Kohl. "Woke" avant la lettre..thank you very much for this take...
First time I heard Martins Heavy keyboard notes on that song back in 1981 (Penthouse and Pavement) I was hooked................................. And have been ever since, never tire listening to that song (A snapshot of my youth)
Great to watch this band really enjoying what they do and the song actually is quite a political one , the drummer is great ,very tight and great backing from the girls ... Keyboards great and of course vocals amazing .well done everyone,a great production .
Total Awesomeness! Totally behind it! Best greets from Cologne, Germany. I know why I always loved them. So good to see they are still around. Would love to see them live. At the best in the UK. Stay strong, brothers and sisters. 👊
That’s why we’re going to Holmfirth (Picturedrome) in May, even though we’ve seen her here in Berlin a month beforehand. The atmosphere there is just gigantic and Glenn is just still great
Love this song and this version, Penthouse and Pavement. Also the band name came from the movie Clock Work Orange as quoted by Alex the Droog ..Heaven 17 was a big part of my musical influance
I'm amazed by how fast that drummer hit the drums. You would think that rhythm came from a drum machine, but that was a regular techno-speed beat. Way to Go!
@@domoreilly3887 81 million votes for a man who doesn't even know what day it is 18 million more than Hilary manipulating all the media covering up Hunter Biden etc rather have Reagan than the Marxist left
It's election year again. This great anthem against the relentless rightwing march NEEDS to be RE-RELEASED - URGENTLY!!! Come on Heaven 17 - WE NEED YOU AGAIN.
@@mike7652 FYI: ANTIFA: The prefix ANTI means against. And the word FASCIST is shortened to FA. ANTIFA is AGAINST FASCISM, you uneducated, clueless fuck.
Saw the original line up of Gregory, Ware and Marsh doing a PA, singing to backing tracks in Maestros in Glasgow in the early 80's.Great then, brilliant now!
The Legendary Martin Ware and Glen Gregory from the classic lp "Penthouse and Pavements " and even more legendary "We dont need this fascist groove thing .... could have been written yesterday 😎✌️.
Incredibly relevant in 2024❤
I was thinking the same.
If anybody ever says to you that 80s bands were rubbish, just show them this. Brilliant.
80s bands were amazing of course, not least Japan with their Tin Drum album from 1981, which is my favourite album of all time.
People who think the 80s are rubbish are the same fools who think today is better than the past - laughable. Long live the 80s.
Fabulous
Amazing band 💃🏻…& saw them in in Aberdeen & they didn’t disappoint 😍
!!!
This synthesizer kills fascists
A great song so relevant in today's world ,well done Heaven 17
🤡💩👹 is now a demigod
Another perfect example of why British music was so fantastic in the early 1980s.
Not only in Great Britain ! We don't need no fascist groove thang !!!
It was fucking brilliant!! So many bands
Sadly they all wannabe Americans these days, hard to detect any stylistic difference
I was in America in 81 on a school trip. We had the specials , Kim wilde, the jam. First night in the states we had a gathering and they were playing led Zeppelin, journey. The Brits could not believe the kids wanted their parents music
I feel like screaming this is so good. Loved dancing to it when I was a teenager and still loving it 41 years later. Bands nowadays are just dross compared to the likes of Heaven 17.
What a powerhouse performance. Heaven 17 still got it.
That drummer is killing it!
Meaningful song for dreadful times! Stay strong people !!!!
I can't believe it's been 30 years, but they still sound excellent!
I just saw The Sound of Sheffield documentary, a must see for fans of Heaven 17, ABC, Human League et al. So great to see this clip!
Can't believe how good they still are!
Just discovered this !!! 14 years late We do need this groove thang !!!!!!! Loved them in the day amnd still do
God, I remember listening to this on college radio when it first came out ...I'M OLD !
The song that woke me up about political issues in the 1980's when there was the institutionalized systematic mental oppression of Thatcher - Reagan - Kohl. "Woke" avant la lettre..thank you very much for this take...
After so many years, they've still got that groooove thaaaaaang!
Banned by BBC Radio 1 in the 80s, now being recorded by BBC Radio 6.
3 decades behind the groove...
And never more pertinent today
Please don't deny the BBC their hypocrisy. Always remember that they know better than you, and tax you for knowing it.
WOW!
@@kristinshelor155 Reagan sorted out Russia. He was America's Maggie and one of the best Presidents ever.
I remember dancing myself dizzy on a loop of this.
Add Bowie's "Fashion" and Consolidated's "Friendly Fascism".
Music to dance and rage by.
Gang of four.....
More relevant than ever!
First time I heard Martins Heavy keyboard notes on that song back in 1981
(Penthouse and Pavement)
I was hooked.................................
And have been ever since, never tire listening to that song (A snapshot of my youth)
Wow, what a great Performance...astonishing.
Great to watch this band really enjoying what they do and the song actually is quite a political one , the drummer is great ,very tight and great backing from the girls ... Keyboards great and of course vocals amazing .well done everyone,a great production .
This is absolutely brilliant and I've still got the 45, as good as the day they recorded it!
Best version of this song 😍
A timeless tune that just gets better with age. Superb mix guys!
What a song. Stands tall in any timeframe
Glen and martyn still sounding great.ladies are amazing too.
It's 2020 and still sounds good
Total Awesomeness! Totally behind it! Best greets from Cologne, Germany. I know why I always loved them. So good to see they are still around. Would love to see them live. At the best in the UK. Stay strong, brothers and sisters. 👊
That’s why we’re going to Holmfirth (Picturedrome) in May, even though we’ve seen her here in Berlin a month beforehand. The atmosphere there is just gigantic and Glenn is just still great
we need so much more of this great music!!!
This is so top!
Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! I remember buying this album.
Love this song and this version, Penthouse and Pavement. Also the band name came from the movie Clock Work Orange as quoted by Alex the Droog ..Heaven 17 was a big part of my musical influance
Right right right
He looks great, sounds amazing. One of my faves.
Stunning
Could be the theme of 2023.
Love this song; love the sentiment!
Wow.. GG still has a great voice.. absolutely loved this track.
Just wonderful.
Blimey! This is great mate!!! Heaven 17 still kicks ass!
Sublime & just about note perfect 30+ years on........
I'm amazed by how fast that drummer hit the drums. You would think that rhythm came from a drum machine, but that was a regular techno-speed beat. Way to Go!
Watch the live version of Transmission by Joy Division. Stephen absolutely kills it on the drums.
This should be declared the International Anthem of all time!
David Watermeyer Agreed. So many lines are SO applicable today, starting with "History will repeat itself..."
I have listened to your music since 1988 I have been listening… So I'm not coming out of nowhere I hear you and it is so worthwhile.
Excellent, glad he's still around. Best times of life in the 80's. Democrats are now in power and we have Senile Biden.
the classic track to dance and get off your face in the 80's. thanks for the memories
Some of us just danced and didn't need to get off our faces in the 80,s as you say ;)
What an excellent version of the classic! Thank for uploading it It's a pleasure to watch them again
the only middle aged guys that never got irrelevant, 80s bands. cuz everything is 80s nostalgia now, Since 2013 and still going strong.
This is just GREAT.... I have so many great memories... of copying this keyboard stab....
Fantastic !
France! UK! USA! Germany! Italy! We don't need this fascist groove thing!
had this all on vinyl so long ago . . . still really good stuff, doncha know . . .
Still powerful after all these years
The drummer is fit ;) I told that to Glen ...he lives with his wife and dog down the road from me near camden
It's still really good!!!!!!!
His voice!
Alive and singing ... Thump up !!!
Excellent.
Its really quite good ........still!!
Heaven 17... rules
Brilliant bring back the 80s i aintbstopped 😂
Hmm..best Studio-live version I have ever seen---xxxx
Saw them in San Diego recently and they were amazing. GG and MW, super stuff!
GREAT!!!!!!!!!!! I played the shit out of this song back then.
My band favorite
Nice one, Gregory's voice is still strong
This. Ground breaking. "Penthouse and Pavement" should be your next move.
Brilliant.
History will repeat itself...
@This Machine Kills Fascists yes
@This Machine Kills Fascists History? - Oh .. doesn't it ? ... 2020
@@izpozpeeps the only fascists are the democrats mass election fraud persecuting people they don't like
@@shaunspadah5790 Got any facts for that?
@@domoreilly3887 81 million votes for a man who doesn't even know what day it is 18 million more than Hilary manipulating all the media covering up Hunter Biden etc rather have Reagan than the Marxist left
It's election year again. This great anthem against the relentless rightwing march NEEDS to be RE-RELEASED - URGENTLY!!!
Come on Heaven 17 - WE NEED YOU AGAIN.
@@mike7652 FYI: ANTIFA: The prefix ANTI means against. And the word FASCIST is shortened to FA. ANTIFA is AGAINST FASCISM, you uneducated, clueless fuck.
@I Gardner These Trump groupies are such a poorly educated lot.. So sad. They done drank the kool-aid! I almost feel sorry for them. SMH.
Ha ha ha!
Idiot
Saw the original line up of Gregory, Ware and Marsh doing a PA, singing to backing tracks in Maestros in Glasgow in the early 80's.Great then, brilliant now!
Why is no one dancing? I dance with my wife to this song all the time!
The song hasn't gotten older.
Top Tune from a top band long live the eighties
80's at its best
Time for a 2019 re-release
Time for a July 2020 release
Lcd Soundsystem got you covered
How about a 2020 re-relese?
Great mix of a great song!
New Wave Revival bands would be great. I hope I see stuff like it when shows come back
The first few bars and I though this is not sounding too good but then it kicked in and Heaven 17 were back!
Awesome 😊perfection I am back
Reagan's president-elect - tells you how old this is! But still worth listening to, music-wise and lyric-wise.
I can't help but wonder how the human league would have been if Ware and co stayed. This should be rerelease now as it's very pertinent
One of my favourite songs of all time.
enough to make a dead man dance! brilliant!
This is the tune!
Groovy + hard hitting in equal measure . Sheer class .
Legend!
Still hits a nerve in 2018.
Still sadly relevant to our times.
No one sings the word 'ass' quite so melodically as Glenn!!
Brilliant ✊
Great!!!!
i miss the magnificent bassline from John Wilson
Me too.
So much jazz soul funk and melody under all that pioneering luxury synth ..luxury synth is the luxury gap! Calvin Harris you know what im sayin...
Heaven 17 Belgium loves you !
Love it
fantastic , was a bit apprehensive clicking on this but WOW .
The Legendary Martin Ware and Glen Gregory from the classic lp "Penthouse and Pavements " and even more legendary "We dont need this fascist groove thing .... could have been written yesterday 😎✌️.
I love this song,plus the drummer is pretty hot!!
Heaven 71.