Rarely Heard of Again 80's Bands

[Tyrone Biggums]

Moving Pictures
The Hoodoo Gurus
Icehouse

You still hear quite a bit of them out here.

And they all had resaonably longish careers compared to some of the other bands in this thread

One of the guys from Moving Pictures went onto have more success in a good band called 1927.

 

[Deano's Right Foot]

I;ll throw in

Department S (Is Vic There?);
The Beloved; and
Matt Bianco

An more obscurely:

Local Heroes SW9;
Family Fodder;
Shrink; and
Sore Throat.

Prizes to anyone who saw any of the above 4 (nb: no prizes actually)

 

[Sonic The Hedgehog]

Comsat Angels, saw them supporting U2 at the Top Rank Suite in 1981.

Danse Society
Josef K

 

[DIFFBROOK]

Vitamin Z
Midnight Oil
The Icicle works
Fairground Attraction

Fad Gadget
Nik Kershaw

Thomas Dolby

Prefab Sprout

The Alarm

 

[Peteinblack]

B-Movie (Nowhere Girl)
Comsat Angels (Missing in Action)
Au Pairs (saw them a couple of times at what used to be Brighton Poly or Art College in Grand Parade in early 1980s, some Lefty benefit fund-raiser, natch, Rock Against Rain or something)
The Chefs (Brighton's very own.....)
Birds With Ears (ditto)
Bow Wow Wow (Go Wild in the Country)
Crass (Hard-core scary anarcho-punks who actually lived on a commune - saw them at The Concorde in 1980; the manager had been persuaded to book them by being told that they were a Jazz band "Do they owe us a living?; 'course they f****g do'

 

[simmo]

5 Star, Curiousty Killed the Cat, Terence Trent D'Arby.

 

[ROSM]

for the person who mention Matt Bianco, here they are getting some immediate and considered feedback on a Kids TV Programme (and I remember seeing this live and hearing Mike Reid's grovelling public apology afterwards)

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sorry you'll need this link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEkB25V_ow8

 

[wellquickwoody]

Brighton band.....

Pookiesnackenburger

 

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howard jones, haircut 100,thompson twins

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Fischer Z

 

[Perry Milkins]

Alphaville

 

[LABHA]

The Flying Pickets.

 

[Juan Albion]

How about

Joe Jackson

I'm still buying his stuff. I thought everybody would be.

 

[El Presidente]

B-Movie
The Red Guitars
Latin Quarter
Zerra One

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Alphaville

i think they're still big in japan ?

 

[LABHA]

Not sure if this band was early 80s or very late 70s but what a throw back they are
Musical Youth,dont know how to put shit from youtube on here,so appreciation in advance if anyone does this,thx. Pass the Duce ( spelling?)

 

[bhafc99]

For The Red Guitars.

Good Technology remains one of my all-time favourite singles.

I was about to say you can still pick up the compilation of all their stuff 'Seven Types of Ambiguity' from Amazon, but then I spotted it's going for £58 secondhand and £94 new! Hmm. Maybe I should try flogging mine. Still have four or five of their singles on vinyl too...

 

[User removed 4]

modern talking and the never to be forgotten brother louis

 

[Curious Orange]

The Mugnificent Sigue Sigue Sputnik

I was in Claire's Accessories with my Mrs the other day and the seemed to have nothing by Sigue Sigue Sputnik clothing in there - neon stylee!!

 

[Juan Albion]

Latin Quarter

Ooooh yessss!!!

I loved them so much that I have at least five copies of the 12" of this masterpiece:

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While looking for this on YouTube I see Steve Skaith has a "Latin Quarter Revisited" album out.