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Mark Bedford was also involved in VotB initially as well. I don't know if he left or was never really a part of them, though.
 
The jump from Fields of the Nephilim to Sabrina is the kind of thing I miss. Not the actual records, just the contrast. we don;t get that now - everything is too focus-grouped, marketed and targeted.
 
lolly said:
Mark Bedford was also involved in VotB initially as well. I don't know if he left or was never really a part of them, though.
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Was he really? I never knew that. Bedford was in a band with Terry Edwards as well around this time but I think music was part-time thing for him by now as he was studying graphic design which then became (and remains) his full-time job - he did the design for the "Divine Madness" compilation that sold into 7 figures in 92.
 
From wikipedia

Voice of the Beehive was an Anglo-American alternative pop rock band formed in London in 1986 by Californian sisters Tracey Bryn and Melissa Brooke Belland, daughters of The Four Preps singer Bruce Belland. They teamed with British musicians Mike Jones, Martin Brett, Mark Bedford and Daniel Woodgate, the latter two of which were former members of Madness. Bedford left after making formative contributions to the band and did not feature again, although Woodgate stayed for most of the band's career.
 
Doesn't look like Bedford or Woodgate did any of the songwriting though. Although I've no idea if they were involved that way for Madness, either.
 
Weird mixed feelings seeing Morrissey doing "Everyday Is Like Sunday". It's such a lovely record but I can't help but look at him and think "how did you become such an absolute shit?" And it's funny how it distorts everything: I used to like how he wore his own t-shirts and, especially here, wearing a Smiths top - an olive branch to the rest of the group? Now I think "you egotistical twat".
 
lolly said:
Doesn't look like Bedford or Woodgate did any of the songwriting though. Although I've no idea if they were involved that way for Madness, either.
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Woodgate more than Bedford although the latter did write the music for one of their very best singles "One Better Day".
 
As much as I prefer the singles on Let It Bee, i do think Honey Lingers is an amazing pop record, and probably in my all time Top 10. It's just utter joy distilled into little over 30 minutes.
 
lolly said:
As much as I prefer the singles on Let It Bee, i do think Honey Lingers is an amazing pop record, and probably in my all time Top 10. It's just utter joy distilled into little over 30 minutes.
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Do they still play out at all? Wikipedia suggests there was a one-off around 2017 but that's it.
 
octophone said:
Do they still play out at all? Wikipedia suggests there was a one-off around 2017 but that's it.
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I thought not, but a quick rummage online indicates they played The Forum in London in May this year.

People have been requesting more dates but it seems very 'watch this space' because of the logistics of the band being based in three different continents.
 
I skipped Morrissey. Same reason I block Katie Hopkins and Mugatu. I dont need that kind of shit in my life.
 
That Five Star video was fucking strange.

The sisters looked to be enjoying themselves so much doing Don't Call Me Baby. What a complete pop thrill that song is. I've only got a cheap compilation but if they were to do reissues I would be up for that.

Oops at another one of those not so hot TOTP presenter number one predictions too.
 
There's a TOTP2 Pet Shop Boys special on iPlayer atm. The Domino Dancing performance is unusual in that the backing singers are seemingly latino men. Chris Lowe has also progressed to a neck piano (I don't know what they're called). He's also decked in full 1988 beachwear.
 
Ag said:
There's a TOTP2 Pet Shop Boys special on iPlayer atm. The Domino Dancing performance is unusual in that the backing singers are seemingly latino men. Chris Lowe has also progressed to a neck piano (I don't know what they're called). He's also decked in full 1988 beachwear.
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Thanks for the heads up on that. This was suspiciously not recommended to me when I logged in earlier to watch The Mash Report and I feel like the BBC don;t know me at all now. Which is probably a good thing because fuck your algorithms and all that.
 
Sabrina's "Boys" actually worse than I remembered, although this is largely because I'd forgotten the "rap" bit.
 
Not one of Erasure's best, this. It's amazing to think they were on an indie, in a way. The majors must have tried to tempt them away. One has to wonder what Daniel Miller's life would have been like had he never met Vince Clarke.
 
Amazed at how seriously I took The Sisters Of Mercy when I was 14. Camp as tits, in retrospect. Good fun tho'. Damn good fun.
 
Why was "In The Air Tonight" a hit again? I don't remember...
 
Another Hazell Dean record of which I have no recollection....she definitely had more hits than I had remembered.

All crap.
 
These episodes are very skippable.

I do have a very specific memory around "Fast Car"...we'd been on holiday in France and were driving home; full family, all 5 of us in the one car, Dad doing all the driving. Early morning, about 6, sun rising quickly because it's mid July. "Fast Car" came on the radio and it was absolutely arresting. It made a weird kind of sense, all of us crammed into the one car, fed up with each other after a fortnight all up in each other's space...I dunno. It's weird sometimes how music can lock into a specific memory.
 
Ag said:
Homophobe.
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It's not prejudice if it's true.

This attempt by T'Pau to write China In Your Hand again is especially weak. Definitely into that period where the charts held little for me but I still followed them and listened to Radio 1 on a Sunday afternoon when they were announced. Odd time.
 
The Fat Boys can fuck off too. I wonder how many of them are dead?
 
Just the one. The guy who did the "human beatbox" stuff too.
 
BVSMP were one of those MYSTIFYING hits that you can't imagine who actually BOUGHT IT
 
I'm no SIOUXSIE fan but I do like this one

PEEPSHOW CREEPSHOW WHERE DID YOU GET THOSE EYES
 
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