No playback for Owen

On tonight's repeated edition of a 1986 edition of Top of the Pops will be Owen Paul. Performing his sole Top 40 hit My Favourite Waste of Time in a more successful manner than his appearance on Daytime chart show Pebble Mill at One. For the performance Owen and his backing band  were standing outside the studio for the performance. However after the introduction Owen and co were still standing still despite the song playing.Owen's explanation was that if he and his band did not hear the audio playback of the of song then they would not mime to it.

Yon can see the incident on Youtube as part of a Room 101 clip featuring Paul Merton and Davina McCall.