Bands of the 80s

pepsi @ shirley

To continue with the mostly Mancunian theme so far - New Order for me

The Waterboys / PIXIES / Sonic Youth / Happy Mondays / loads more but towards 88 started to get into dance music and now my brain is mashed

The Jesus and Mary Chain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3G_PsGmXys

MC a listen to this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRaUsAet6L4
pixies doin head-on

I preffered the 70s Slade,T Rex,showing my age now.

Then Jericho
Climie Fisher
The Pasadenas
The Christians
Brother Beyond
Curiosity Killed The Cat
Europe
Level 42
Cutting Crew
The Adventures
Cry Before Dawn
The Bolshoi

...a right load of old toot there!

I would imagine a lot of people topped themselves in the 80's with this depressing music

Culture Club

the style council

Heaven 17
Depeche Mode

I was snapping at the hammersmith palais when Jesus and Mary chain had sonic youth supporting   First time sonic youth came to uk.  Great gig.
The gun club were a great band IMO

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I would imagine a lot of people topped themselves in the 80's with this depressing music

Was a lot if s hit around chaser. I'm struggling to think.
Early 80 s benders with keyboards around their necks saying guitars were uncool.
Later 80s slightly better

A Flock of Seagulls!!!!

Erasure

spandau ballet

Dinosaur jr. ...   bug .....is late 80s .

Bon Jovi

Shee-ite now but great in their time.

Jun 2, 2014 -- 3:50PM, TheChaser wrote:

Joined: 10 Nov 10 | Topic/replies: 9,827 | Blogger: mesmerised's blogI would imagine a lot of people topped themselves in the 80's with this depressing music

You ain't kidding!

As for those New Romantics wandering aboot Edinburgh in their purple feckin' socks ... don't get me started

^ sooner have ma heid in a banjo

The The, Talking Heads, B-52's, Psychedelic Furs, The Cramps - plenty of decent music around at the time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXTJhnc9xns

"When the sun goes down and the moon comes up I turn into a teenage goo goo muck"

go-betweens
triffids
blue nile
friends again
the bible
kane gang
prefab sprout
orange juice
james king and the lone wolves

Marc Almond

bronski beat
baltimora
beastie boys
big audio dynamite
big country
frankie goes to hollywood
hall & oates
billy idol
red box
simple minds
the stranglers
the undertones
the vapors

Jermaine...was that Hammersmith Palais gig 1984? Did you take pics at any other gigs at the Palais in 1984? I played there that year supporting Spear of Destiny, were you working on that one? I've got no pics of it, maybe you have? 150-1 shot this one probably but no harm in asking lol.

ere your that nufter David Van Day aren't you? one half of Dollop or something like that

Dizzy
I think it was bit later than 84 not sure tho. I know it was sonic youth first gig here.i was working for a screen printing company. I did I m sure do a spear of destiny one but think that was a festival maybe Stonehenge   What was your band ?I can ask if there are any .The trouble was it was all pre digital and negatives ended up everywhere.

Talking heads .stranglers .hewie lewis in the news .bruce hornsby .bob marley .depeche mode .journey .stix .del amitri

I've been to 1000s of gigs.  But the palais one was exceptional sonic youth had cheekily bashed the volume up to an incredible level and were well confident they were to  blow jamc off stage. I remember  jamc  were pretty p issed off  and when they started it was quite subdued then they played never understand and the place went ballistic. Almost riot like scenes I read afterwards some saying that s youth had blown jamc away.
Not IMO 
Years later my friends brother Nick  Sanderson rip was jamc drummer  so I got to see them many times. Never did I see them come close to being as good as that night.
Great great gig.

dizzyd I saw spear of d at h palais in 1984. cant remember support though.

Jermaine....My band was the Orson Family, I was the drummer. We did a lot of gigs in 83 and 84 around the country and some in Europe, many as headliners plus quite a few as support to bigger bands as well as Spear of Destiny.... the Clash, the Smiths, the Alarm, Bronski Beat, Amazulu, Clint Eastwood and General Saint, Gang of Four etc. As you said Jermaine it was all negatives in those days and they all ended up lost, I've got hardly any pics of any of the gigs, if by some long shot you find any floating around I'd be grateful.

Morpeth.....the Palais gig was October 1984, I remember that as it was the same day I passed my driving test, as well as being our last but one gig as were about to split. As it was the end of an era for us I decided to go out with a bang and have my own guitar smashing moment in true rock n' roll style so I got off the drumkit, walked to the front of stage and smashed an old guitar to bits while the others carried on playing. I enjoyed that.

Burton....I'm definitely not that bloke from Dollar!

dd, my flatmate was a big orson family fan, he was into gun club, blue aeroplanes too

the style council

hawk kestral man hoovers in the dark

duran duran !

pale fountains

bros

transvision vamp (wendy james )

transvision vamp (wendy james )

met her in a record shop in sunderland, shes a dwarf

sure??,she looked quite tall on the telly,she`s taller than kylie definately

aye, was in really early days when pluggers/reps took up and coming artists round record shops, she implored me to buy their new single, told her I was here to buy the ne go-betweens single.

Erasure,Soft Cell and Frankie goes to Hollywood the rest were all S@@t imo
Non stop erotic cabaret is best album ever imo by Soft Cell.

Housemartins.

I've never heard of Orson Family but respect if you played with Clint Eastwood and General Saint

Aswad terence trent derby

Morpeth, it's a small world your flatmate being a fan of ours. Someone had to be I guess. Burton...the gig with Eastwood and Saint was one of our very early gigs and is a hazy memory now but I think it was on the university circuit. By the end of 1984 my career in the music business was over for good but it was a whole lot of fun while it lasted. As for great bands of the 80s, one of my favourites was Dif Juz, any other admirers out there?

I was invited by a friend of mine to go to the BBC as he was making a program for them in '82 called Something Else, he was allowed to pick 2 groups to record at the studios and he had Clint Eastwood and General Saint plus Steel Pulse. Lenny Henry was recording something but he left to come and watch Steel Pulse play. A very drunken day was had, thank you Aunty Beeb.

^^^^^ Handsworth Revolution , great record BB. I remember Something Else too.

Hi dizzy
I think I remember your band from somewhere.  I'd just started working in london in 84. Were you a bit like the meteors or did you play with them   Maybe a rockabilly fest.
My memories are a bit tarnished but you must have been going well supporting the clash.Strange thing at that time I was living in Lancaster rd Notting hill and joe strummer lived a few doors up   He left to live near Glastonbury and me to herts   A long time later I went to a funeral bash at the subterannia  of a guy called mole who had been in the 101ers with joe and he was there. The week or so later joe played a firemans benefit thing down the road in acton The afternoon of the gig I dropped some flowers off at moles grave and joe was there doing the same.
2 weeks later he was dead .
Anyway I will ask the women I was working for if she has anything from your band. I'm not hopeful might be some posters she seemed to keep them more
Peace

OMD
U2
Primal Scream
UB40
Deacon Blue
Eurythmics
Queen
Talking Heads
Fleetwood Mac
Soul 2 Soul

Split Enz
The Smiths
Propaganda
Howard Jones

The Stray Cats.

Department S
The Lambrettas
Secret Affair
The Bluetones

Think you mean the Blue Aeroplanes Barney???

No bluetones - had a hit with Slight Return

Thought this was an 80s Band thread, Bluetones didn't form until 1993...

anyone mentioned the Thompson twins yet??!!??

Aztec Camera
The man from Delmonte
The Railway Children

The The

Pet Shop Boys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4rYs2p_-vM


classic

Jermaine,
Your memory is good, we did used to get compared to the Meteors, in the early days especially, but we weren't totally at ease with the rockabilly/psychobilly label so tried to diversify our music to appeal to a wider crowd.  Our singer though was a born and bred hardcore Ted and he knew the Meteors, King Kurt, Guana Batz and others from way back but we turned down gigs playing with those bands and others like them to try to avoid getting pigeon-holed. Towards the end we were trying to move to the next level by gaining a new kind of fanbase, trying to become more of a pop band. Simon Fuller knew of us as we'd had a publishing deal with Chrysalis, where he'd worked as an A and R man. He was starting to get into managing bands and took a liking to us and offered us a management deal but we turned him down as we didn't think he had what it took to take us higher. He went on to be what Billboard described as the most successful British music manager of all time, created Pop idol and Spice Girls and managed numerous worldwide stars and is now worth £350 million , while we split a few months later and sank into obscurity and my career in the music business was over. Some you win, some you lose, lol.
About your old mate Joe Strummer, I never knew him personally ,just met him when we played twice with the Clash, at Manchester Apollo and Brixton Academy. Both times he was a class act, invited us in their dressing room, shared their food and booze with us cos they had the quality stuff while all we got in our dressing room was crates of beer and sandwiches , sat and shot the breeze with us, humble and genuine as you could want. I played with lots of bands who achieved far less than Joe Strummer ever did but acted like they were Billy Big Bollocks, I found Strummer to be a refreshingly good bloke.
About asking your friend if she's got any pics, much appreciated but no worries if nothing comes of it of course,it's not a short priced runner I know that lol.

met her in a record shop in sunderland, shes a dwarf



surely she cant be smaller than Tracy Tracy from The Primitives...tiny

Madness, Bad Manners, The Specials, The Selector, Fun Boy Three.

Hue and Cry
Living in a box

James   - IMO possibly the most under rated band in the UK.

Australian band Midnight Oil  -  absolutely amazing live band (check out some early 80's live songs on youtube. Superb band, sadly mostly only known for Beds Are Burning which isn't even close to being their best song.

me nephew is the keyboards player in the selecter , he wasn't born until 1990s