Rage

is an overnight, Australian, music video show that's been running since 1987. No annoying hosts, just interesting selections of videos. Always had a low-budget DIY feel. You could make a video, put it on a Betamax tape, and get it played some time Friday night.

The best part is the guest programmers; a band or artist of whatever comes in and play whatever videos they want for a few hours on Saturday nights. Then they schedule a bunch of their videos after. Used to love taping them as a teen, hoping the three-hour limit would catch everything good.

Great to watch after a night out. Would play a game where you say if none of the next three videos are any good you'd go to bed.

Memories

Seeing the video for Loverman with the vague Memory that Nick Cave was Australian, and being surprised about it and how wild it was.
A live version of a Bee Gees song that was sung so badly by Barry it had an amazing sweaty punk atmosphere. In my memory it was at a festival with a big screen behind, but I've found a 1976 TV special with the same white outfits I remember and sweaty, straining falsetto that is probably it. Might be conflating it with the 1988 Nelson Mandela concert. Might be this '99 one too—
Seeing, and instantly falling in love with, Like an Eagle by Dennis Parker in 2012(?)

Plus all those anti-memories: videos I saw once, was fascinated by, and never saw again.

DIY Rage

Always wanted to be a guest programmer on Rage when I was a teen, wanted to look through that big book of music videos.

Easiest way to grab videos is to use Yt-dlp to download things from Youtube.

Credits

I created a subtitle file (.ass) that mimics the artist/titles credits Rage puts on videos:

music-video-credit.ass

[Script Info]
Title: Default Aegisub file
ScriptType: v4.00+
WrapStyle: 0
ScaledBorderAndShadow: yes
YCbCr Matrix: TV.601
; 1:1
PlayResX: 480
; 4:3
PlayResX: 640
; 3:2
PlayResX: 720
; 5:3
PlayResX: 800
; 5:4
PlayResX: 384
; 16:9 (853.33)
PlayResX: 853
PlayResY: 480
 
[V4+ Styles]
Format: Name, Fontname, Fontsize, PrimaryColour, SecondaryColour, OutlineColour, BackColour, Bold, Italic, Underline, StrikeOut, ScaleX, ScaleY, Spacing, Angle, BorderStyle, Outline, Shadow, Alignment, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Encoding
Style: Rage-artist,Eurostile,30,&H00FFFFFF,&H000000FF,&H00000000,&H00000000,-1,0,0,0,100,170,0,0,1,0.5,4,1,60,10,80,1
Style: Rage-title,Eurostile,30,&H00FFFFFF,&H000000FF,&H00000000,&H00000000,-1,0,0,0,100,130,0,0,1,	0.5,4,1,60,10,35,1
 
[Events]
Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.00,0:00:25.00,Rage-artist,,0,0,0,,ARTIST
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.00,0:00:25.00,Rage-title,,0,0,0,,Title

It's not perfect, but close enough for me. Wish I could get the line spacing closer :(
I was trying to avoid that dopey .ass file extension, but I needed to use it to mess with the font dimensions a bit. I should've used a better base resolution, but oh well.

At Home

You could make a big playlist in VLC, I guess. But I've been slowly setting up Kodi (which I already use for watching movies) as a music video jukebox kinda thing. This way you can add tags and genres and things.

See: kodi#music_video

With Kodi you'll need to install any fonts you want to use. In my case I had to put them in /usr/share/fonts. And make sure you're not overriding ssa/ass subtitle fonts in Settings>Player Settings/Language/Override ASS / SSA subtitles fonts
In newer versions of Kodi you can put the fonts in the ~/.kodi/media/Fonts directory, I believe. Current Kodi versions support other font types, but I had to use TTF.

Steaming

I haven't tried this (yet), just noting some useful software / methods.

Basic process is:

Have a source of videos. Could be fixed, could change over time.
Use something to send the output somewhere. Could be capturing the screen, could be sending a stream of files.
Have somewhere to send it. Either host yourself, or use something like Twitch, Peertube, or OwnCast.

Make a playlist in something like VLC, use OBS to capture, send to

Trivia

Deni Gordon does the Rage scream: Meet the woman who did the iconic Rage intro scream. She was also in Heartbreak High!
The font use for the logo is maybe an edit of 'American Typewriter'?: Anyone know this font? It is from Rage on ABC in Australia.. Info I got from the ABC is just that it's a custom font.
I also asked about the font used for the captions, and was told that it's Eurostile. ~~I've ended up using Eurostile round, bolded it, and narrowed it a little. The rounded versions adds a little softness that fits better with my analogue-tinged memories.~~actually in Kodi it's way too bold, so switch back to the not-round version. Regular Eurostile seems to be used in the credits though, without any condensing.

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