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Record Store Day 2025 – The UK Edition
It’s hard to believe that for last year’s Record Store Day, I was actually in the UK for once, and found myself at a store in Liverpool the next day and bought the Steven Wilson Ultravox “Lament” remix EP. Stupidly, … Continue reading
Posted in Record Store Day, Want List
Tagged 2025, Blancmange, Boomtown Rats, David Sylvian, Jesus + Mary Chain, Pete Shelley, Soft Cell
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Blancmange and Midge Ure Join Up For North American Mini-Tour This May
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
Record Review: Blancmange – Mange Tout
Blancmange: Mange Tout UK CD [1984] Don’t Tell Me Game Above My Head Blind Vision Time Became The Tide That’s Love That It Is Murder See The Train All Things Are Nice My Baby The Day Before You Came Though … Continue reading
Heaven 17 + Blancmange: Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together
The last few weeks have seen me slightly obsessed* with Heaven 17’s sophomore triumph album “The Luxury Gap.” I’ve had to resist listening to it on a loop in my car for days at a time. The killer cut this month, after … Continue reading
REDUX: New Wave Scorecard
May 17, 2011 I was viewing the latest Simple Minds news the other day at Dream Giver, the best SM information site out there, when I saw that temporary Simple Minds drummer Michael Ogletree is hitting the Rewind Festival this … Continue reading
Posted in Blast From The Past
Tagged Blancmange, DEVO, Fiction Factory, Gary Numan, Heaven 17, Human League, Japan, John Foxx, Magazine, OMD, reformed bands, Shriekback, Simple Minds, Ultravox, Was (Not Was)
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New Wave Compilations: Best Of 12″ Synth Gold
Various: Best Of 12″ Synth Gold UK [1990] Thompson Twins: Love On Your Side [ext.] Blancmange: Living On The Ceiling [ext.] Heaven 17: Play To Win [ext. ver.] Visage: Mind Of A Toy [ext. ver.] Japan: Life In Tokyo [“Assemblage” … Continue reading
Posted in New Wave Compilations
Tagged Blancmange, compilation, Heaven 17, Japan, Landscape, New Wave, OMD, Thompson Twins, Ultravox, Visage
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Song Of The Day: Thompson Twins – The Gap
Last week I pulled the fine Edsel DLX RMs of “Quick Step And Side Kick” and “Into The Gap” and gave them a spin as it had been a while. I came to The Thompson Twins via their college chart … Continue reading
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