Category Archives: New Romantic

A personal favorite Post-Punk subculture. The bastard sons of Roxy Music and David Bowie.

Blancmange and Midge Ure Join Up For North American Mini-Tour This May

Posted on February 28, 2025 by postpunkmonk

We’ve already written about the Cruel World Festival that brings a mixture of New Wave vets and contemporary Darkwave bands into a large pot and applies the heat. It’s a huge, fun show that often sees PPM royalty jetting over … Continue reading →

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Upcoming Simple Minds Live Album Has An Almost Perfect Setlist; This Fan Says “Huzzah!”

Posted on February 26, 2025 by postpunkmonk

Last Friday we got a surprise notice from the Simple Minds mothership that…stop the presses… a new Simple Minds live album was being prepped for release in April. Gloryoski! Simple Minds sure have a lot of live albums. Maybe not … Continue reading →

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America’s In His Head: Peter Godwin Joins Expanded Lost 80s Live North American Tour

Posted on February 25, 2025 by postpunkmonk

Stop the presses! Now that we’re out of the Steve Strange rabbit hole [we had to do it] there are a lot of new happenings that demand our attention, and this one was number one with a bullet: the mysterious … Continue reading →

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Ten Years Ago, The World Became A Little Less STRANGE [pt. 7]

Posted on February 24, 2025 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] The seeds of the “Orcherstral” album were planted by the date that Visage played in the Czech Republic at the Ski Flying World Championships. The Prague Philharmonic orchestra played live with the band and producer John … Continue reading →

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Ten Years Ago, The World Became A Little Less STRANGE [pt. 6]

Posted on February 21, 2025 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] It was a dozen years ago today when I first posted about the Visage Mark III lineup which had bade itself public in 2013 following what seemed to be many months of behind the scenes pronouncements … Continue reading →

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Ten Years Ago, The World Became A Little Less STRANGE [pt. 5]

Posted on February 20, 2025 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] Steve Strange was largely marginalized during the 90s. While the Bassheads remix of Fade To Grey” entered the UK Top 40, he was in a perilous state as he had become addicted to heroin while modeling … Continue reading →

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Ten Years Ago, The World Became A Little Less STRANGE [pt. 4]

Posted on February 17, 2025 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] Of course, in 1986, no one knew publicly that Steve Strange had a heroin addiction. This accounts for numerous ill-conceived musical efforts in the broad spectrum of Rock and Pop music. Which is sad, of course. … Continue reading →

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