bartelby Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 7 hours ago, miles'tone said: I wish I knew more about him to honest. I wonder if he's still at it? Erasure released and album and toured last year and Vince is still doing remixes... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casapete Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 The Housemartins. After a lot of success, ‘the fourth best band in Hull’ split meant two of the band, Paul Heaton and Dave Hemingway, went on to form The Beautiful South, with Norman Cook morphing into Fatboy Slim as well as forming Beats International and Freak Power. When The Beautiful South split ( due to ‘musical similarities’ ) Paul Heaton continued to record and perform with Jacqui Abbott. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norris Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 8 hours ago, miles'tone said: Although I expect he did alright with Erasure eventually. I wish I knew more about him to honest. I wonder if he's still at it? They were still gigging last year in support of their new album The Neon. Both looked a little older (as you would expect) but put on a great show Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 9 hours ago, miles'tone said: I wish I knew more about him to honest. I wonder if he's still at it? He also made an electronic instrumental album with Martin Gore in 2011. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 10 hours ago, meterman said: Ultravox, where John Foxx got to do his solo thing and the fellas he left behind managed to carry on without him. And adjacent to this, when sub-BCR teeny bop band Slik split, Midge Ure formed Rich Kids with Glen Matlock and then took over from both Robin Simon and John Foxx in Ultravox. Meanwhile the rest Slik went on to form firstly the highly under-rated Zones and subsequently Set The Tone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicko Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 Bruce Dickinson replacing Paul Di'Anno upped the quality of Maiden's output no end. The enforced split of Nirvana gave us the Foos. Not sure where Nirvana would have gone had Cobain stayed around but I suspect they would have imploded at some point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyJohnson Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 23 hours ago, BigRedX said: And adjacent to this, when sub-BCR teeny bop band Slik split, Midge Ure formed Rich Kids with Glen Matlock and then took over from both Robin Simon and John Foxx in Ultravox. Meanwhile the rest Slik went on to form firstly the highly under-rated Zones and subsequently Set The Tone. Cough. PVC2. Cough. The Rich Kids (as Matlock/New/Egan) were already formed and courting several guitarists well before Midge Ure came on board; Mick Jones of The Clash was in the early lineup. Matlock actively pursued Ure and was rebuffed several times. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cantkeepjohnnydown Posted July 20, 2023 Author Share Posted July 20, 2023 On 12/07/2023 at 09:24, BigRedX said: And adjacent to this, when sub-BCR teeny bop band Slik split, Midge Ure formed Rich Kids with Glen Matlock and then took over from both Robin Simon and John Foxx in Ultravox. And, in yet another development, Robin Simon joined Magazine while Midge Ure played in Visage with three OTHER members of Magazine, and his fellow Rich Kid Rusty Egan! Whew! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cantkeepjohnnydown Posted July 20, 2023 Author Share Posted July 20, 2023 On 11/07/2023 at 23:07, meterman said: Ultravox, where John Foxx got to do his solo thing and the fellas he left behind managed to carry on without him. I do believe Gary Numan is still grieving this split! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barking Spiders Posted July 20, 2023 Share Posted July 20, 2023 When Gypie Mayo took over from Wilko I thought they got even better and they had their biggest hit with him Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cantkeepjohnnydown Posted July 20, 2023 Author Share Posted July 20, 2023 11 minutes ago, Barking Spiders said: When Gypie Mayo took over from Wilko I thought they got even better and they had their biggest hit with him Gypie was a great guitarist and the Baby Jane single is a favourite of mine. Still, Wilko had a stronger and more unique identity as a guitarist and wrote all the best Feelgood originals. He apparently also had a fairly miserable time with the Solid Senders before joining the Blockheads and teaming up with Norman Watt-Roy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damnthatlazlo Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 On 11/07/2023 at 23:15, miles'tone said: It takes a rare kind of self confidence to choose creativity over cash, always looking forward. Heard an interview with Andy bell recently where he said vince needed two words for a song he was working on at the beginning of erasure. He said what about oh Lamour? Vince gave him half the songwriting credit. Andy also talks about how erasure bombed initially and he was sure vince would be under pressure to ditch him. But if he was he never mentioned it and always had faith in him. Anything I’ve read or heard from Andy makes me think AB is the biggest VC fan to this day. It really sweet I think. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nilorius Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 On 11/07/2023 at 15:40, cantkeepjohnnydown said: Music history is littered with bands who lost members and were never quite the same, but occasionally there are band splits with unequivocally positive outcomes. My first example would be Ashleigh Hutchings leaving Fairport Convention in 1969, which led to the birth of Steeleye Span as well as Fairport recruiting Dave Pegg (and making their best album). Incredibly, Hutchings repeated the feat a couple of years later when he left Steeleye to form The Albion Band. I'd dare say no other musician has made a finer career out of forming and leaving bands! Another example is Howard Devoto making the first seminal Buzzcocks EP and then swiftly taking off, the result of which was the formation of Magazine and the incredible blossoming of Buzzcocks as led by Pete Shelley. What are your examples? Buzzcocks - this is a name of the band, right? Is it two words paired together....insteresting name for the band !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeresaFR Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 1 hour ago, nilorius said: Buzzcocks - this is a name of the band, right? Is it two words paired together....insteresting name for the band !!! Yes, the Buzzcocks name was written as a single word. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waddo Soqable Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 I seem to recall a buzzcock being a colloquial name for some bird in the US, wouldn't think a Manchester punk band would've been named after one of those tho. Useless fact... I saw the Buzzcocks at the Vortex ( punk venue off Oxford st. London ) in 1977 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeresaFR Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 14 minutes ago, Waddo Soqable said: I seem to recall a buzzcock being a colloquial name for some bird in the US, wouldn't think a Manchester punk band would've been named after one of those tho. Useless fact... I saw the Buzzcocks at the Vortex ( punk venue off Oxford st. London ) in 1977 This paragraph from their Wikipedia page covers the origin of the band name: "Devoto and Shelley chose the name "Buzzcocks" after reading the headline, "It's the Buzz, pink torpedo!", in a review of the TV series Rock Follies in Time Out magazine. The "buzz" is the excitement of playing on stage; "pink torpedo" is northern English slang meaning "friend". They thought it captured the excitement of the nascent punk scene, as well as having humorous sexual connotations following Pete Shelley's time working in a Bolton adult shop.[15]" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cantkeepjohnnydown Posted July 21, 2023 Author Share Posted July 21, 2023 17 minutes ago, Waddo Soqable said: I seem to recall a buzzcock being a colloquial name for some bird in the US, wouldn't think a Manchester punk band would've been named after one of those tho. Useless fact... I saw the Buzzcocks at the Vortex ( punk venue off Oxford st. London ) in 1977 Was Devoto still with them at that point? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waddo Soqable Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 "¢ock" was certainly a popular term of friendly address "all right me old ¢ock"... the sort of thing my old grandad would have said 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waddo Soqable Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 (edited) 5 minutes ago, cantkeepjohnnydown said: Was Devoto still with them at that point? No, I'm virtually certain it was Shelley as the front man when I saw them, tho I'd likely "partaken" of various substances at the time.. Edited July 21, 2023 by Waddo Soqable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nilorius Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 9 minutes ago, Waddo Soqable said: "¢ock" was certainly a popular term of friendly address "all right me old ¢ock"... the sort of thing my old grandad would have said 😁 Born to be wild😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waddo Soqable Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 1 minute ago, nilorius said: Born to be wild😉 Nah, it was pretty standard parlance really 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nilorius Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 4 minutes ago, Waddo Soqable said: Nah, it was pretty standard parlance really 😁 What about wild west ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waddo Soqable Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 1 minute ago, nilorius said: What about wild west ? You'll have to ask @snorkie635 I'm sure I've seen him with a cowboy hat on... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nilorius Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 38 minutes ago, Waddo Soqable said: You'll have to ask @snorkie635 I'm sure I've seen him with a cowboy hat on... and a colt, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casapete Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 5 hours ago, Waddo Soqable said: No, I'm virtually certain it was Shelley as the front man when I saw them, tho I'd likely "partaken" of various substances at the time.. I saw them soon after that and it was Pete Shelley fronting them. One of the best ‘punk’ bands around that time IMO. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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