WASTELANDS - An Australian B-grade, Punk Rock, Street Trash online radio show exploring the vast undiscovered cultural wastelands as a creative pursuit. Hosted by long time partners in slime Adam (085c3n3) Obscene and Mark-O -Mark, pondering punk oddities, trashy treasures, street levelness, life, culture and stuff.

Episode 01 - Post Apocalyptic motifs of the 80’s

This episode Adam and Mark discuss Italian B grade Post Apocalyptic disaster piece: 2019 - After the Fall of New York, their formative years as VHS 80’s Kids and Wendy- O - Williams.

2019- After the Fall of New York (1983) Starring - George Eastman, Michael Sopkiw. Directed by Sergio Martino (as Martin Dolman). music By Oliver Onions.

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Category: 1980s, action, post apocalyptic, sci-fi , punk rock

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WATCH: 2019 - AFTER THE FALL OF NEW YORK

Wendy-O-Williams - Plasmatics

The Plasmatics were an American punk metal band formed by Yale University art school graduate Rod Swenson with Wendy O. Williams. The band was a controversial group known for wild live shows that broke countless taboos. In addition to chainsawing guitars, blowing up speaker cabinets and sledgehammering television sets, Williams and the Plasmatics blew up automobiles live on stage.

Plasmatics were masters of capturing a post apocalyptic vibe. The video for “The Damned” produced and directed by The video Rod, features Wendy driving a school bus through a wall of TVs, climbing onto the roof of a moving bus which had been loaded with explosives, and then singing from the roof and jumping off a few moments before the bus goes through the second wall of TVs and then blows sky high.

Check out the video below

…..and here is Wendy on the Joan Rivers Show in 1987

VIDEO Lands

For many, it was a sad thing to see the many Blockbuster Video stores sit vacant, run out of business by Netflix and other on-demand services. However, although unfortunate for a fan of analogue, I never shed a tear. I had lived through the early days of the video store, before Blockbuster came in and drove many of the independent movie rental shops out of business. For me, Blockbuster, Video Ezy and the like ruined things. They didn’t have the character and uniqueness of the small, independently owned video stores. So, the sight of an old Blockbuster building converted to a Get Fit Quick gym didn’t inspire much wistful sentiment.

So, this gallery of memories isn’t about the days of Blockbuster which owned the early 2000’s and essentially all of the 1990’s. This is about the days when the video recorder was new, and there was excitement in the air – you could actually select a movie to watch yourself! We take it for granted now; however, up until then, you were at the mercy of what was at the cinema or drive in (if you had one in your town ) or what ever the 3 telly stations decided to throw your way. Now, the power was in your quaking hands. Oh, the thrill of this new technology…. And oh, the disappointments….