Round-up You slot, mate?! - The most unlikely telly appearances

From Wossy spooning Yeezy, to Haim calling David Cameron ‘DC’, here are some of the oddest music slots on the tellybox.

Sure, we live in an age of multiple music videos, holographic performances and – most recently - visual albums. But there’s still something mystifying about seeing your fave band performing live, right from your living room. Music on the telly-box, sadly, is in scarce supply at the moment. Saying that, there are still an odd few performances that make you want to get some mates together, start a band and shout ‘MUM I’M ON THE TELLY’ while playing a rubbish cover on London Live.

There also some performances which see bizarre TV slot and band combinations. Savages on Ellen last week was one of these zany combos; the voice of Dory introducing the insanely intense voice of Jenny Beth to people that definitely don’t like post-punk was more than a bit weird.

With that in mind, here are few other classic TV slots that are as off-the-wall as it gets….

Made in Digbeth - Peace head to Chelsea

Transport back in Made in Chelsea history to Series 7 Episode 7, if you will. Proudlock’s only gone and invited Peace to come and play a gig for Louise’s birthday. It’s a bit of a bizarre twist between the real world, the scripted MIC-sphere of rah-rah-rah talk and some sort of PR stunt. It’s worth a watch just to see Cheska say that she thinks ‘the frontman needs a shower’. Spencer, meanwhile, declares ‘I love this band’ in the most deadpan way ever. Oh – and the beautiful irony of Harrison Koisser singing ‘Money / does it taste good?’ to some Chelsea lads and ladettes bopping to-and-fro in their head-to-toe designer clothes? Priceless.

And, if you can’t be bothered to sit through an entire episode of posh people bitching about each other/the mansion tax, you’ll find Peace here at 07:46. Thank us later.

This is an outrage - The Horrors on The Mighty Boosh

Rather frustratingly, the only available footage a) looks like it has been shot with a melon b) is a handheld video of another video on a screen c) has random MSN pop-ups and camera shakes throughout. Anyhow, the episode basically sees Noel Fielding’s Vince Noir trying to fit into a pair of ultra-skinny drainpipes in order to join a band called The Chokes (actually the Horrors during their goth-rock era). The end of the episode brilliantly sees the whole band play, with Vince ridiculously warped due to constriction, like some sort of bobble-head. It’s all very silly, with Faris having zilch lines whatsoever, and instead just sitting and reading a book.

Y’all sleeping on me, huh? Yeezy cosies up with Jonathan Ross

With enough auto-tune to satiate T-Pain for decades, Kanye performed ‘Only One’ on Jonathan Ross in some sort weird glowing white box thingy. It’s all a bit serious and intense for Jonathan Ross TBH, with Kanye falling on the floor at the end due to the emotional power of his own performance, and having a little lie down.

Wossy then kind of kills the sad feels by offering Kanye a cheeky spoon, and saying that his arse is ‘not as big as Kim’s but it’s all yours’.

Twin Peaks meets Chic-A-Go-Go

If you haven’t heard of Chic-A-Go-Go you’ve missed out BIG TIME. It’s very hard to explain, but in their own words, it is an ‘all-ages Chicago cable access dance show’. It sees a puppet called Ratso and IRL co-presenter Miss Mia introducing all kinds of local bands. They then play a show for a load of wildly dancing randoms. It’s absolute barrels of fun.

Twin Peaks’ performance is no exception. Bassist Jack Dolan rather awkwardly says the best part of being in a band is ‘meeting ladies’ and they play a mixture of keytars, mini-drums and – err – a broom.

A mare on Marr (that another Marr hated) - Haim are accidently nice to David Cameron

Music on Andrew Marr is always a bloody weird thing. In a tiny mini-stage in the corner, bands awkwardly play in front of stuffy politicians that look even more awkward. It’s all just very awkward. Back in 2013, a buzzy Haim took the tiny, tiny stage and (of course) smashed a performance of ‘The Wire’ while David Cameron looked onwards with all the rigidity of a dead pig. Rather awfully, Este says ‘that one was for you D.C, it’s all about you.” Sigh.

It can be forgiven because Haim are fab, but it’s still not the best judged thing to say to someone who is definitely evil. The whole #DCGate led to Johnny Marr saying that they ‘made themselves look like idiots,’ which is slightly true. Though, as previously stated, Haim remain fab.

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