X-Ray Spex - Artificial

This performance of 'Artificial' from the Old Grey Whistle Test was used as part of the UK punk episode in the BBC2 series Sounds of The Seventies in about 1993.

We watched Sounds Of The Seventies as a family on a Saturday night, much as we had with Sounds Of The Sixties a few years previously. When it came to the punk episode though, mum and dad quietly left the room and got on with other things. They returned about 25 minutes later to find us cross legged on the floor in front of the TV, singing along to Joy Division's 'Transmission', a song we'd never heard before but had got the gist of as it went along.

Unfortunately, when the series was repeated, they had to lose about five minutes from every episode, meaning a song got cut each week. It became a kind of game to try and remember each week which one we'd lost. When it came to the repeat of the punk episode, it was this clip that found itself on the cutting room floor.