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Gerrie planning Tube anniversary celebration
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 15 July 2011
The 30th anniversary of the launch of 80s music show ‘The Tube’ will be marked with some kind of event, the programme’s former Executive Producer Malcolm Gerrie confirmed at MusicTank’s ‘Remake, Remodel’ mini-conference yesterday, where he was in conversation with MusicTank Chair Keith Harris on the role of the superstar in the music business of the future.
Gerrie revealed: “A couple of months back, there was a story in the press that Peaches Geldof was going to follow in her mother’s footsteps and present a new version of ‘The Tube’. My Blackberry went crazy. Everyone wanted to know when this was happened. Channel 4 and Sky both called, had I got a broadcaster yet? And the labels were phoning too, was it too soon to be booking in bands? But the thing is, there was no truth in the story. There was never any plan to relaunch the show. I think perhaps an agent somewhere got a bit ahead of themselves”.
But, he continued: “With so much interest in this non-existent ‘Tube’ revival, it got us thinking. I said to the guys at [Gerrie’s current company] Whizzkid, ‘it’s the 30th anniversary next year, we should do something’. So we’re going to do something. I’ve no idea what yet. We’ve not got a broadcaster. Our old studio in Newcastle’s been bulldozed. Paula’s long dead. But we’ll do something. Maybe a one off, maybe something more, who knows? There maybe a TV show element, and we’d definitely want to do something online too. But this is as far as we’ve got. And we’re certainly open to suggestions”.
So there you go, we don’t know what, when, where or how, but ‘The Tube’ will be back in 2012, if possibly for one night only. I’d say, be there or be an ungroovy fucker.
