TV Series

Series Name:	The White Room
Format:	TV Series
Years:	1994 - 1996
Country:	UK
Language:	English
Genre:	Music
Rating:	8.0 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	7 Have Seen
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Selected Cast	Mark Radcliffe

Notes

Live music show presented by Mark Radcliffe. Shown on Channel 4 and ran for four series.

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nboldock 29th Jul 2016



BiggieTembo 11th May 2015		Here's a (albeit really bad quality) clip of Iggy with his See-Through trousers on The Word. As you will no doubt observe, you can viddy his yarbles real horrowshow



biffbampow 9th May 2015		Whilst recalling "The Word" and some of the things that went on on there, I just suddenly had another flashback to what was probably the most notorious moment on "The White Room" - Iggy Pop... and his transparent trousers! Still, the best Iggy moment for me was when he turned up on a Roland Rat Christmas special which I'm not sure but might have been the show when he got a little intimate with a teddy bear, or began humping the TV camera... memory is getting hazier as one gets older but do remember him grabbing a TV camera and a side shot showed him humping the camera from below... it was from around that same era since he started popping up on a few shows promoting that "Real Wild Child" stuff.



biffbampow 8th May 2015		This was a brilliant show. Came along at just the right time as the whole "Britpop" thing was gaining ground though it did also have a lot of soul and R+B based acts on it. It was the "must watch" show of it's time and "Later With Jools Holland" looked rather pompous and lifeless by comparison to the degree that suddenly, after the first series of "The White Room", "Later" began pinching some of it's ideas like suddenly you could see the audience which until then you barely ever saw and getting more interviews and archive clips into the show. "The White Room" showed at least one archive clip a week and they were more or less all gems that at that time it felt incredible to see them - the promo to "Arnold Layne" being one notable moment... I went NUTS finally getting to see that! Unfortunately, Channel 4 began messing about with it... for the New Year special they brought in the irritating Jo Whiley as a co-host which for me didn't work since Radcliffe was effective enough on his own and what happened next was horrifying - there was one more shorter series then Channel 4 axed it and replaced it with a piece of trash called "The Girlie Show" - "The White Room" was dead and buried and suddenly who got given her own show? Jo Whiley... and it was bloody awful and ran far longer than the White Room did. A disgrace. There were many memorable performances and for me seeing acts like Moloko, Dubstar and My Life Story for the first time... wow... they all left indelible impressions. A lot of genuine legends and big names appeared too - Bowie, Lou Reed, Ray Davies, Prince, and Iggy Pop to name a handful... most of whom would not had graced Jools' show but were happy to do this one. It's been referred to in some places as the "Ready Steady Go! of the 90's... and in some ways that's an apt description. It was fresh and exciting. I loved it and for me was one of the finest music shows ever made. I taped most of them and watched them many times over the years until I lost my VHS collection. Would love to see them again.

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