Retro Month heads to February for a Third Year in a Row, What happened to January?
Seen a couple of GTK and a Hit Scene tonight (surely the best opening credits around!), Is January back to being retro month?
Has anyone else been Watching Rage this month ? I always enjoy seeing old Countdown episodes,reminds me of being young again. I’m so thankful there was such great music back then ,70s to about late 80s
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I like the 80s episodes of Countdown, I prefer the 70s episodes though.I’m still p***ed that so many 70s episodes were lost when the ABC wiped them in a cost cutting drive,to reuse all those videotapes 
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Sadly it wasn’t just ABC, all networks did it. Videotape apparently wasn’t cheap and none of the networks had the storage capacity for infinite archiving or had the foresight to envisage the future market potential. So many shows lost forever.
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Yes it’s a shame
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rage Sydney Opera House 50th Birthday Special
ICONS ONLY. Tune into rage this Saturday as we celebrate 50 years of the Sydney Opera House !
It’s one of the world’s most identifiable pieces of architecture, but the Sydney Opera House is so much more than just a building to Australians. The multi-venue performing arts centre on the banks of Sydney Harbour has housed some of the most thrilling creative acts to ever hit the country. From rock stars to ballerinas to theatrical masterpieces, the SOH is responsible for inspiring our country for generations.
The Sydney Opera House is celebrating the historic milestone of its 50th year with a Birthday Festival program featuring a wide variety of free and ticketed events. Film screenings, performances, workshops, art displays, lectures and online livestreams are all included as a part of the event, with topics of interest to suit all ages.
As our own tribute to the SOH , this weekend rage will be broadcasting for the first time an exquisite collection of footage taken from some of the Opera House’s biggest performances in recent history. Catch artists including Iggy Pop , Vance Joy , Sampa The Great , Gurrumul and many more for an event that’s been half a century in the making.
Tune in to ABC TV this Saturday at 10:30am and again Saturday night from 11:50pm to catch the rage Sydney Opera House 50th Birthday Special !
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Even got the full version of the song, where the long-running Rage info and bumpers theme song originated from on the playlist too.
4:30am
- IGGY POP Real Wild Child (Universal)
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Commemorating the life of the late Shannen Doherty.
Mon 12 Aug 1:42am
Nothin’ but clips from the soundtrack of early 90s Beverly Hills, 90210.
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rage Countdown 50th Birthday Special
Do yourself a favour and cancel your weekend plans, because we’re celebrating Countdown’s 50th anniversary with one heck of a party on rage!
To mark the momentous occasion, we’re heading on an all-night trip down memory lane, tracking the show from its inception in 1974 all the way to the final episode in 1987. We’ve delved deep into the vault to line up hours of our favourite interviews, performances, segments, and iconic moments featuring the likes of Judas Priest, Kate Bush, David Bowie, Joan Jett, Bob Marley, Iggy Pop, Mick Jagger, Madonna and heaps more.
And we know you retrophiles can’t get enough Countdown, so lucky for you the ABC is kicking off the festivities at 7:30pm with the premiere of Countdown 50 Years On – a night of live music plus stories and interviews from Countdown’s original 13-year run and never-before-seen archival footage
Tune into the rage Countdown 50th Birthday Special this Saturday November 16 from 10:30am and again from 10:45pm on ABC TV.
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Tonight on ABC Entertains, Rage is airing a previously lost episode of Countdown - 6 August 1978, with John Cougar Mellencamp. Looking forward to it.
There aren’t many episodes left in the archives from that year, so I guess this could have come from an off-air recording?
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Starting to work my way through Rohan Connollys 400 vhs off-air recordings of footy stuff and music stuff.
Any music stuff I find that I can’t see already on YT I will try to put up.
Couldn’t see Steve Kilbey’s guest hosting in 1992 on Rage, so 1.5hrs of that is up
Also this live version of Beds are Burning
The video clip for Falling Joys ‘Incinerator’
And the video clip for Boom Crash Opera’s “Bettadaze” , as shown on MTV Australia
If these are already up somewhere on YT do tell me, as I don’t wish to double up - I’d rather just put up stuff that isn’t already accessible.
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