This sounds like it may be the 1981 "20th Century Box" TV show episode which featured the Soundhouse Heavy Metal Bandwagon and it's DJ Neal Kay. The show was primarily about Iron Maiden, but does offer some excellent clips and interviews with fans and from inside the Soundhouse too. Some great live & interview footage of the young Maiden too. It's included in it's entireity on Maiden's "Early Years Volume 1" dvd.Abyss wrote:There is another one I've saw about nwobhm it seems to have been on british television about nwobhm fans going to "heavy metal discos" and playing cardboard guitars along with the music.
The 1989 British tv documentary mentioned earlier in the thread was a Heavy Metal special episode of the "Arena" arts show on the BBC. It was the first of a week long series of Heavy Metal specials featuring concert shows from the likes of Metallica and Slayer. The docu itself, was a mixture of clips from the upcoming live concerts, and various talking heads talking about what Heavy Metal meant to them, with Black Sabbath featured heavily at the beginning. The middle section was a lengthy interview with Napalm Death, which through editing or possibly not, made the band appear pretty stupid.
The general tone of the whole piece was slanted in order to portray the music and fans as primitive and childish in my view, but as i haven't seen it in nearly 20 years, but perhaps time has been unkind to my memory and kind to the show.
