Immagine TV - Psychic War + Ossata (early 80's Palermo post-punk)

A Palermo post-punk band whose influences included Suicide, and Wire, Immagine TV began in 1980 with the original group consisting of Enzo Mazzuca (vox/gt), Giovanni Romano (gt), Robert Di Dio (bass), Sergio Buccafusco (synth), and Giuseppe Mazzuca (drums). Throughout the years the band went through various lineups, sometimes appearing as a trio, or as a quartet with a drum machine until 1986 when Fabio Clemenza joined on drums to cement the band’s lineup as a trio until disbanding in 1991. In December 1985, Immagine TV and many other Palermo punks took part in ROCK ’85, a large anti-fascist concert held at the Pisani mental hospital. The concert, organized with the help of renowned Palermo photojournalist Letizia Battaglia, was held to celebrate the closures of Italy’s infamous “mental hospitals,”—which were actually large dissenters’ prisons created under Mussolini’s regime—as well as to encourage the opening of real hospitals and psychiatric wards. To the punks, the concert was known as “Qualcuno Volò sul Nido del Cu“ (“One Flew into the Arsehole”), a reference to the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The Palermo bands that performed included Afa, Circle Trance, Immagine TV, Johnny 23, MG, and Under Trash. As shutting down these mental hospitals was still a controversial idea in Italy, newspapers reported on the concert with headlines such as "Rock for the Deranged,” and "A Concert for Crazy, Lonely People.” Letizia Battaglia had another way of putting it: “Externalism affects not only the mentally ill, but whoever lacks a place to freely exchange ideas. These young people are incredibly brave to perform [here]."