Performance video's:

Performance music videos pre-date the 1980s. Before MTV, performance music videos were exactly as the term suggested, music performances captured on video. These were used solely as promotion and often called "the promo clips."
In a performance video you can see the artist singing or lip syncing the song or you can see the instruments involved in the song shown in the video. I think that older music video's are more likely to be performance videos, as they didn't have as much technology to make a video as they have today.

Examples of Performance Music video's are,
The Beatles - Help:


I really Like the video, It uses lots of camera angles and movements, which make it interesting. Our song isn't done by a band therefore we are unable to do a full performance video showing instruments.

Kings of Leon - Notion:


I actually love this video, although it is a performance video, i really enjoy watching it, the use of so many different camera angles and movements and also the location and things happening around the band while performing makes the audience want to watch on. I love the lighting and the fire and location falling down around them brings drama and interest.

Coldplay - Viva La Vida:


I enjoy watching this video, also performance based, the background effects brings interest and i really like the extreme close ups of the instruments being played, i also really like the fast pace editing at the same time as the beat of the song, I would like to create a similar effect with my groups music video although ours is narrative based.