Lime Spiders — My Favourite Room (live)

JUL 01 1987 · 12:00

Lime Spiders — My Favourite Room (live) (1987) Era: Australian Garage-Punk Boom (1987) - Peak era of Sydney's independent garage rock scene, coinciding with the release of The Cave Comes Alive! on Virgin Records Australia and the band's single promotional cycle. High archival value as a broadcast-era live performance document of one of Australia's most critically respected yet commercially underexposed garage punk acts at their commercial peak. The clip captures the band's raw performance aesthetic in a controlled television environment, providing a rare visual record of the 1987 lineup during the period surrounding The Cave Comes Alive! The mimed-performance-on-TV format is itself a culturally specific artifact of Australian music television conventions of the era, distinct from the polished narrative music video format dominant elsewhere. Context: The Lime Spiders occupied a unique position in the late-1980s Australian rock landscape: a Sydney-formed band blending 1960s garage punk and psychedelia at a moment when the domestic independent scene was beginning to attract international attention. 'My Favourite Room' was released in 1987 on Virgin Records Australia as a single from their debut album The Cave Comes Alive!, which peaked at No. 54 on the Kent Music Report Albums Chart. The band had already cultivated a US college radio following — their Slave Girl EP reached the top of the US college chart — making this live-format promotional clip part of a broader push for mainstream Australian TV visibility alongside their underground credibility. Their Weirdo Libido video had just made history as the first clip ever broadcast on the ABC's rage program in April 1987, contextualizing this clip within a pivotal moment of Australian music television expansion. Director notes: Multiple online sources describe the clip as a mimed performance on Australian TV rather than a true live concert recording. The format — static multi-camera coverage, controlled studio lighting, absence of an audience — is consistent with the Countdown broadcast aesthetic of the mid-to-late 1980s. The song 'My Favourite Room' was released as a single on Virgin Records Australia in 1987 alongside the debut album The Cave Comes Alive!, making 1987 the most probable production year. No production company, director, or broadcast date has been confirmed through available sources.