THE BEAST

This is the complete film of The Kings performing at "Heatwave", a festival held at Mosport Racetrack, located an hour east of Toronto on August 23, 1980. Others on the bill that day included Elvis Costello, Talking Heads, the Pretenders, the B-52's, Nick Lowe and Rockpile, Teenage Head and more. The Kings and Teenage Head were the only bands that gave permission to be filmed. Sound on this film is authentic and was recorded onsite by Doug McClement from Comfort Sound on 8 track half inch analog tape. For some reason they didn't film our whole 55 minute set but there's almost a half hour here, and we are very proud of it and worked hard on this film with re-mastered sound and frame by frame 16mm film restoration from the negative.