Nico and The Faction in Shibuya, Tokyo in 1986 performing, Das Lied Vom Einsamen Mädchen (The Song Of The Lonely Girl). Most of Nico’s songs were sung in English and although she was born Christa Päffgen in Cologne in 1938, I read that she sang the German songs with an English accent, never wanting to be known as […]
Produced by Robin Guthrie and featuring Elizabeth Fraser on a memorable chorus, Primitive Painters appeared on Felt’s fourth album, Ignite the Seven Cannons released on Cherry Red records in 1985. Felt were led by the enigmatic Lawrence and over a ten year period released ten albums and ten singles before splitting up. This single also […]
Southern Death Cult, Death Cult and finally The Cult with the classic 1985 Gothic, Indie, Rock, Acoustic Metal, trippy, She Sells Sanctuary, the fourth single from the Love album. Ian Astbury hamming it up, Billy Duffy wielding his Gretsch White Falcon, Jamie Stewart grooving on the bass and drummer Mark Brzezicki from Big Country filling in […]
The Associates were a Synthpop band from Dundee, Scotland that included the gifted vocalist Billy MacKenzie and his musical partner Alan Rankine. They enjoyed Top 20 success in the UK with tracks from their second real studio album Sulk in 1982 but Rankine left the band in the same year. (In between their first and […]
This release isn’t generally considered to be a David Sylvian album in the purest sense (he doesn’t sing) – the confusion is actually three fold; firstly, when it was released in 1985 it was cassette only, secondly it has been re released with tracks added and tracks removed and last but not least – it […]
Steel Cathedrals is a short film with soundtrack by David Sylvian and Ryuchi Sakamoto. Shot over two days and directed by Sylvian and Yasayuki Yamaguchi, it consists of stark, shimmering images of chimneys and water – the city and nature. Unfortunately it is only available in two parts on You Tube but if the visuals are […]