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Years - 1980-92
Best Song - Talk Talk (#29 in UK - 4/12/82,
#17
in Melbourne)
Origin - Southend, England
Driving Force - "I want to write songs that you'll be able to listen
to in 20 years time." - Mark Hollis
Years - 1979-83
Best Song - When I Dream
Origin - Liverpool, England
Driving Force - "The modern music scene is about as vitriolic as a
mindless television programme like The Love Boat." - Julian Cope
Years - 1982-95 (Well now only Roland Orzabal and maybe new material one
day, Curt Smith now in a band called Mayfield with a new limited release
album).
Best Song - Mad World (#3 in UK - 13-20/11/82,
#14
in Melbourne)
Origin - Bath, England
Driving Force - Not much judging by their "live" shows
Years - 1978-88
Best Song - Moskow Diskow
Origin - Brussels, Belgium
Driving Force - Marc Moulin, in fact all 3 members bring a variety
of intersts which work well together
Years - 1981-82
Best Song - Do You Beleive in the West World (#29 in UK - 13/2/82)
Origin - London, England
Driving Force - "Certain people could live up to the Theatre of Hate
idea - others couldn't, you don't stay on the train when it's got to end
of the line."
Years - 1982-85
Best Song - Climb Down
Origin - England
Driving Force - Pop duo bandwagon
Years - 1977-91 (the as Babble) - Exclusive Tom
Bailey interview from July 1997.
Best Song - Love on Your Side (#7 in UK - 19/3/83)
Origin - Chesterfield, England
Driving Force - "I think we are going to move into the field of futurism.
It's not the same sort of futurism that was happening in the pre-'80's
in England with all the clothes - that was cold futurism. What we want
to do is start writing songs, like Watching, that are about an extended
vision of the future, not just the cold, isolated machine takes over everything
kind of thing."
Years - 1975-81
Best Song - Adrenalin
Origin - Sheffield, England
Driving Force - Torture, cults, wars, venereology, concentration camp
behaviour, Aleister Crowley, unusual murders and unusual pornography
Years - 1983-85
Best Song -
Origin - Northampton, England
Driving Force - "We're doing things the otherway towhat Bauhaus did.
They started off as a live band, then went into the studio. We started
off as a live studio band and have to branch off into live to show ourselves".
A little side project (along with Jazz Butcher) between Bauhaus and Love
and Rockets.
Years - Born 1958 - Signed to Safari 15/12/78 - First single 19/7/79
Best Song - Thunder in the Mountains (#4 in UK)
Origin - Birmingham, England
Driving Force - Gangs -> Punk -> Solo talent via TV host -> Now a Teletubby
commentator
Years - 1982-89 (McComb embarked on a solo career and died Feb '99 - 17/2/62-2/2/99)
Best Song - Wide Open Road
Origin - Sydney, Australia
Driving Force - Evocative of rural Australian townships and psyche
Years -
Best Song - Da Da Da (#2 in UK - 31/12/82,
#18
in Melbourne)
Origin - Germany
Driving Force -
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