- WASTED YOUTH : SURVIVORS -

We decided to release this DVD because of the interest being shown in the recent sales of Wasted Youth CD's on the internet. There are four CD's available. Their first one, 'Wild and Wandering' has become a must have album and all these years later, it was reviewed in the August 2005 edition of Record Collector Magazine issue 313.

We had filmed the band during two of their gigs at the Bridge House in Canning Town E16.
The extra unreleased track were filmed a year before the main live gig, We had originally recorded these to try and improve the bands performance on stage. This never really worked, they were a live gigging band who got there reaction from the audience, no amount of rehearsals could change this. The band learned their craft doing 200 gigs a year, you will notice the difference this made in the two filmed performances, they ooze confidence in the main live gig, missing in the film that was taken a year earlier.

When we found these films of the band, they had been laying dormant in my attic for 24 years.

After opening the box i thought they were useless, being a bit careful and really wanting to see the band again after all these years, I made a call to a good friend from the bridge house days Jeff Ellis. Jeff had been in bands and was a keen photographer touring with Wasted Youth as their Friend.
Jeff had also filmed the Jealousy single and created the covers for the first singles and album so what better advice could i get, at this time we had no idea where the jealousy film was.

So you can imagine my surprise and delight to find that Jeff was a computer and multimedia expert and had worked in tv and video. He had a look at the film and said he would give it his best shot, also saying there were creases in the tape that he could not be repair so the glitches in the film would have to stay. I agreed, saying like me the fans out there would love to see it. I could not wait, I picked up Darren, Wasted's bass player for him to have a look and to get his opionon. He said let Jeff work some miracles, and he has. Being so old it's not perfect, but it nearly is. well done and thanks jeff.