The phenomenon of the New Romantics can be said to have begun in Autumn 1978 with the foundation of a “Bowie Night” by Steve Strange and Rusty Egan at Billy’s nightclub in London’s Soho.
Despite names such as The Blitz Kids, Futurists and The Movement With No Name, it was term “New Romantics” that became the widely used press description of this flamboyant scene. Continue Reading ›
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MURMURS OF EARTH began as a vehicle for Richard Sinclair who had already released two solo albums.
But keen to collaborate, he teamed up with TENEK front man Geoff Pinckney in 2015. Eschewing total darkness, as the album title suggests, ‘Fragments Of Stolen Light’ allows some brightness in while retaining an emotional centre. Continue Reading ›
Anglo-French singer-songwriter Julia-Sophie Walker first tasted near-mainstream fame as a member of rock band LITTLE FISH. When LITTLE FISH disbanded as 2012 concluded, they evolved into the cerebral independent dreampop combo CANDY SAYS and it saw Julia-Sophie reconnecting with her Gallic roots. Continue Reading ›
DIE ROBO SAPIENS is the “ultimate 100% electro EBM project” by the members of trailblazing industrial metallists DIE KRUPPS.
DIE KRUPPS have become more metal than machine over the past decade or so. But their leader Jürgen Engler plus Kameraden Ralf Dörper and Marcel Zürcher were seeking a Sonderkraftfahrzeugfor for some of the more synthesizer-dominated material that had been written but couldn't be used in today’s rockier template of DIE KRUPPS. Continue Reading ›
For her third album as MECHA MAIKO, Toronto-based Hayley Stewart has a impassioned message that things are ‘NOT OK’. Triggered by the various social-political flashpoints that emerged during the worldwide pandemic, a lyrical maturity has emerged.
Hayley Stewart spoke to ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK about the making of her latest opus and why it’s still NOT OK… Continue Reading ›
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