Comments OffShareBy Tom King When music journalist Simon Spence was a teenager in the eighties, he nursed an embarrassing secret. There was this band from Basildon, and they were one of his favourites. He kept very quiet about the fact, however. “It wasn’t cool to even mention Depeche Mode,” he says. Decades later, Simon, 39 has [...]
Comments OffShareBasic are an electronic duo from Basildon, Essex. Since getting together they have written over 30 tracks and have done covers with their own personal touch. They have played a few venues within the Essex area and are always looking for new venues elsewhere. The idea of a one hit wonder doesnt appeal, Basic are [...]
2 CommentsShare ‘The Posters Came From The Walls’ is a recently released film about Depeche Mode fans which will be showing simultaneously in several cinemas throughout the UK on Tuesday Dec 1st. For those of you in the London area, the film will be showing at Clapham Picturehouse where Alan will be attending the screening and [...]
Comments OffShareThe full version of ‘Synth Britannia’ posted yesterday has been removed, but we were to locate eight of the nine segments of the documentary via YouTube. You can watch them all after the jump. Documentary following a generation of post-punk musicians who took the synthesiser from the experimental fringes to the centre of the pop [...]
Comments OffShare In the late Seventies small pockets of electronic artists such as The Human League, Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle were inspired by Kraftwerk and J G Ballard to dream of the sound of the future against the backdrop of bleak, high-rise Britain. Gary Numan’s 1979 appearance on Top Of The Pops heralded the invention [...]
