I've always been very fond of this song by Wire and especially the video, mainly for Bruce Gilbert's performance but also for the rather sweet 'celebrity' cameos - all genuine fans apart from Steve Martin (I'm guessing here). But can anyone identify the ones I've missed? They were probably quite well-known in 1989...

So far:

Vince Clarke
Andy Fletcher
Andy Partridge
Simon Raymonde & Robin Guthrie
Howard Devoto
Bjork
John Peel
Bernard Albrecht

that chap with the broken nose looks very familiar.

The Prize is a free Bruce Gilbert makeover :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoBXsZh2XZE

Sean Penn
also,
Steven Morris from New Order

(bewigged) Michael Clark @ 1.33? (some crossover with Dome)
And Bernard Sumner @ 2.53?

Cathal Coughlan 0.28
Sarah Jane Morris 0.45
Sir Michael Tippett - amazingly! 2.39
Bryan Adams - even more incongruously 2.40
Keith Allen - 2.54
Margi Clarke - 3.14


More after staring intently at freeze frame for an hour...

The one that's infuriating me is the fellow at 1.10 in.
Anyone?

Are some of them other Mute artists...?

Most seem to be Mute/OLI Indie fellows, or felladies (to avoid the sexism charge).
I thought I spotted Gabi from DAF and Don Was, but now I'm not so sure.
Oh, this is infuriatingly good fun, thanks Fritter.

Who is that at 3.10?!?

Dunno.
2.50 Martin Degville?
Do I get an extra point for James Dean at 0.00.
And doesn't the music go into Ghost at the end?

And Van Gogh just after... *boom boom* :D

Shake the room.
One of them has to be Daniel Miller, shirley?
"Another one that has ballooned..."

He has ballooned. :o

Jason Parkes (he of amazon? :o ) reckons (or asks, rather) if Nick Cave or Depeche Mode are in it. Neither, as far as I can see.... :mellow:

There are two DPs I think...
Andy and Vince.
What have I told you about Googling? :devil2:

Soz. :ohdear:
It was really fucking bugging me, though. :D

PS - This isn't a quiz - I don't think Fritter knows, that's why he's asking...therefore google is permissable, shirley...non!?! -_-

Well, I was tempted, but said "no".
You may have spoilt the magic, BK.

:cry2: :cry2: :cry2:

PS Although I would like this bugger solved afore I go to bed so feel free to carry on...

Sorry, love.
I didn't get any answers though, so magic is still intact, non?
Oh, don't cry....you're gonig to....start.....me....... :cry2: :cry2: :cry2:

I'll have another watch... :cry:

This is a great song...but I'm getting f&*kin sick of it... :(

It was nice, but they did better here, BK.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWPBuoFs3Mg
Bedtime for Bonzo.
See ya.
x

Lovely. :beer:
Night.
x

PS - Sorry, Fritter. :(

Night, kidder.
x

Night, love. Sleep tight.
xxxx

Right, I'm hitting ver sack too.
We've done our duty! -_-

On reflection, it's not Cathal Coughlan, but a porky Vince Clarke.
Who is the ruddy broken nosed man????

The broken nosed man looks familiar even to me,
and I don't recognise most of them.

Okays, I cheated like a rotten cheating cheater
and the other name I could come up with was Jello Biafra

I dunno what he looks like...so can't say whether he's in it or not, innit?
Is it, innit?

Don't think Jello's in there.
Mr Broken Nose looks like a clip from Crimewatch/Crimwatch.
I so know the man with black hair, and I bet the man with his back turned is obvious, too.
Anyone?

2.51 - a glimpse of Karl Burns-burning Jah Wobble!

Er yeah, this isn't a quiz as such, it's for information really. So if Googling helps, google.

Good effort so far though. (that broken nose chap is really bugging me though!)

Ah, is the man with his back turned Steven Morris?

I don't think the broken nose one is a musician....
A writer...?

No I think Steven Morris is between Bernard Sumner and Peel.

Okay.
Time to bring in the big guns.
I've just emailed a friend who's a Mute obsessive.
We may beat this bicha...

I've had a few goes at this and it's doin' my fucking head in now! :grrr:

Have I seen Nick Cave at 2.35, Dudley Moore at 2.37, and Joe Cocker at 2.57?

Or am I a twat of the first order?? :wacko:

NEWSFLASH!!!!!: Bloke with black greased hair... Alan Rankine????

But no Billy Mackenzie? :huh:

Barry Adamson at the end ?

Ah yes, good one. Somehow I reckon Billy Mackenzie might have thought this sort of thing beneath him, and I doubt he was a Wire fan too.