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[horrie hastings]

 

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[Ride the Lion to Zion]

BBC 4 plunder the Top of the Pops archive every Friday. Last night's vintage fare included an edition from 1982 in which Altered Images were miming along to "See Those Eyes".

Their early records like "Dead Pop Stars" saw them touted in the music press as a Glaswegian Siouxsie and the Banshees. Clare's diminutive stature and helium-tinged vocals were never destined for Goth icon status. She knocked herself out during one effervescent performance on children's TV after smashing her head on a guitar.

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

Billy Currie and Rugby League share the same birthplace. He's standing behind a synth in this vid. Key member of Ultravox and Visage.

 

[Det.Wojciehowicz]

BBC 4 plunder the Top of the Pops archive every Friday. Last night's vintage fare included an edition from 1982 in which Altered Images were miming along to "See Those Eyes".

Their early records like "Dead Pop Stars" saw them touted in the music press as a Glaswegian Siouxsie and the Banshees. Clare's diminutive stature and helium-tinged vocals were never destined for Goth icon status. She knocked herself out during one effervescent performance on children's TV after smashing her head on a guitar.

I love both Clare and Siouxsie Sioux but they are nothing alike. Typical of the music press to try and create a story that doesn't match reality.

 

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[Det.Wojciehowicz]

Great song. This is my favourite of the Twins

 

[Det.Wojciehowicz]

 

[horrie hastings]

Great song. This is my favourite of the Twins

Also like Love On Your side

 

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[Ride the Lion to Zion]

I love both Clare and Siouxsie Sioux but they are nothing alike. Typical of the music press to try and create a story that doesn't match reality.

Music journalists are notoriously fond of analogies and reference points. Altered Images supported the Banshees on their Kaleidoscope tour in 1980. Similar trajectory also in that both bands enjoyed the patronage of John Peel on BBC radio before signing record deals.

 

[Det.Wojciehowicz]

I would have loved to have seen that 1980 tour. It's rare to get a support act you want to see as much as the headliner.

 

[Det.Wojciehowicz]

I just remembered one other time when that was the case. The second time I saw The Ramones the support act was The Hard-Ons. That was one hell of a concert.

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

I just remembered one other time when that was the case. The second time I saw The Ramones the support act was The Hard-Ons. That was one hell of a concert.

Lurking somewhere in my enormous record collection is a CD comp by the Hard-Ons. Pretty scuzzy bunch from what I recall. House band for the filthiest toilets around Sydney.

 

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[Ride the Lion to Zion]

First saw the Thompson Twins as a 7-piece on the Old Grey Whistle Test performing "In The Name Of Love".

Ramshackle outsized DIY collectives were a feature of the early 80s. Cockatoo haircuts, checked shirts, superfluous members providing random percussion. A band from Leicester called Yeah Yeah Noh nailed the phenomenon with a line about "young soul rebels banging pots and pans" in one of their songs.

Alannah Currie was my earliest experience of a New Zealand accent. Couldn't decide whether she was Australian or South African. Most Poms face the same dilemma initially.

 

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[Ride the Lion to Zion]

Hedgehog Sandwich was the title of the second NTNOCN album. There were Hedgehog flavoured crisps in UK shops around the same time. Manufacturers at pains to insist that no hedgehogs were harmed in the making thereof.

Several excellent musical parodies on NTNOCN.

"Gob On You" - Punk cliché

"I Like Bouncing" - Ska revival

"Super Duper" - Abba

A pounding quasi New Wave ditty called "All Out Superpower Confrontation" and my personal favourite, Pamela Stephenson's Kate Bush pastiche "England, My Leotard".

 

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The other bloke looks like one of Harry Enfield's Scousers.