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...would you have a do and get into it?
I missed new romanticism (?) by about five years. When I watch documentaries about that era's music, fashion and clubs I get all misty eyed. I would have been well into it. Makeup, ruffs, the pouting the whole nine yards. And if it ever came back, I think I'd try my hand even at my age.
Anybody else miss or immerse in this era? And would you have another go or tell yourself to leave it?
Nah, but as for punk...
Hell yeah! Go the full Adam Ant? Or more subtle a la ABC??
I'm certain the over-coiffured hipster male look might just evolve into this again. Just wait.
(obvs the beards will have to go 😉 )
no.
tukka boots, skin tight jeans and mohair jumpers did not suit me in 1980............I doubt they will now. 😀
I wouldn't mind another 'feather cut' hairstyle !
I'd never have done it in the 80s, I was too much of a straight-laced girly swot until I discovered rock music and alcohol. If I had my 40-year old brain in a 20-year old body though, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
I'm certain the over-coiffured hipster male look might just evolve into this again. Just wait.
The emo kids are almost there now, all make-up, skinny jeans and asymmetrical haircuts.
Still listen to ABC a lot now, although don't wear any makeup whilst doing so....
tukka boots, skin tight jeans and mohair jumpers did not suit me in 1980
So you tried then? Are there any photos?
You will all be doubly aggrieved to know that the revival has already been and gone:
[url= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romo ]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romo[/url]
The new romantics never really made it north anyway, we just had to put up with the perry boys.
but as for punk...
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Punk was the biggest commercialisation of music ever and the birth of the "boy band" - just a tool to sell T-shirts and faded dreams.
You only saw the make up and frilly shirts on TOTP anyway. Certainly no one of my friends and acquaintances ever did!
Nah, it was poncense then, and would be poncense now. Although I'd take my then-bleached and backcombed full head of coiffeure over this male pattern baldness, except without the bleach and coiffeure 8)
Whadayamean [i]if[/i]? Spandau Ballet and Duran Duran are touring again!
Two of the worst bands ever, so no, I wouldn't join in.
I did buy a Boy George style shirt in London at the time. It was a messy thing.
[i]Punk was the biggest commercialisation of music ever and the birth of the "boy band" [/i]
Yeah, cool history lesson. Cheers.
Hell yeah! Go the full Adam Ant? Or more subtle a la ABC??
Were either of them ever "New Romantics"?
Were either of them ever "New Romantics"?
+1 Adam and the Ants were never New Romantic.
I went to see Heaven 17 in Brighton the other week and they were absolutely brilliant !!
Didn't really like them BITD, but now they're properly good, well worth going to watch them.
They've a new album coming out soon too, and the tracks they played off it we most awsoome Deep House/Dance stylee indeed.
As for wearing the clothes, nope, nope and thrise nope.
This thread has reminded me to download the film 'Soul Boys of the Western World', the Spandau Ballet story.
Nah, but as for punk...
Punk (no, not the the Pistols) grew up and we had Grunge. If either 'came back' it would be a regression.
No, but watching TOTP was rather fun by comparison to shite camera changing angle every 1 second nowadays. i.e. at least TOTP did not use so many cameras. FFS! camera angle is not disco lights ...
Disco yes.
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Punk was the biggest commercialisation of music ever and the birth of the "boy band"
Birth of the "boy band"? I should coco...
I'd get into it for sure, but I don't think I'd be applying guyliner and blusher.
Proper New Romanticism was a few years before my time really. My dress in the mid - late 80's and early 90's was heavily influenced by Depeche Mode and I've some humiliating photos of me knocking about in white jeans and studded black leather jackets with custom paint jobs on 😀
Christ no! Didn't back then, and certainly wouldn't now. My standard gig-going uniform, regardless of who it was, punk, metal, indy, folk, et al, was a leather bike jacket, straight 501's, tee shirt and hi-tops or boots.
Not much has changed, really...
nope. I was a punk who became a goth. that was silly enough 😉
do you want to see the evidence?
gordimhor - MemberHell yeah! Go the full Adam Ant? Or more subtle a la ABC??
Were either of them ever "New Romantics"?
I'm trying to think of a genre that describes them any better than NR?
Post-punk new wave for AatAs
Heaven 17 and adam and the ants = New Wave Bands
Heaven 17 were just a pop band.
Idlejohn they don't have to belong to any genre
Heaven17 did this
footflaps - Member
This thread has reminded me to download the film 'Soul Boys of the Western World', the Spandau Ballet story.
Just watched it tonight. Great film and covers the birth of the New Romantic scene. Highly recommended.
My first ever concert was Adam and The ants!
Adam and the Ants were 79 , new romantic didn't occur til 82 wasn't it? Duran Duran then Synth, Human League, Swear to God, I was on a stag do saturday night and one of the young dudes looked a bit Human League, tight jeans something about his hair shaved up the sides coiffed up top, I even remember mentioning it to him, at first he ignored me so I pressed the point turned out he was sensitive about it as his mum (who is marrying my mate and why we were on the stag), went out with one of the Human League dudes, which kind of begs the question... 😆
Kids eh? Has anyone mentioned Bowie as the inspiration of New Romanticism yet?
It was a lovely day when I was listening to Boney M while running around free of world stress ... those were days.
Adam and the Ants were 79 , new romantic didn't occur til 82 wasn't it?
From wiki: [i]New Romanticism (also called Blitz kids and a variety of other names)[1] was a pop culture movement in the United Kingdom that began as a nightclub scene around 1979 and peaked around 1981. [/i]
Kings of a Wild Frontier was released late 1980 - bands like Duran Duran were already active and Spandau's To Cut A Long Story Short was released in the same month I think.
And, to justify my suggestion that AatA were New Romantics, from wiki's Duran Duran page: [i]They worked with stylist Perry Haines and fashion designers such as Kahn & Bell and Antony Price to build a sharp and elegant image, soon outgrowing the ruffles and sashes of the pirate-flavoured early New Romantic look that had been popularised by Adam and the Ants during 1980–81. [/i] 😀
I'd forgotten that Adam Ant came out of the Malcolm McLaren stable. (Has he claimed to have invented NR? 🙄 ). I seem to remember watching an old documentary where Boy George was immensely irritated that Adam Ant had a hit before him?
Ultravox were my favourite band at the time - I would have been horrified to be put in the same camp as Culture Club or Duran Duran fans, but essentially they all came from the same place.
New Romantics and Punk both passed me by. I still dress in 70s jeans and t-shirt. Not the same ones I was wearing then obviously, I'm not a Hell's Angel.
No thanks , but if you plan a shoegazing indie night that morphs into electro after the "man" arrives , I'm in. 😉
The Beatles were the birth of the boy band , it was on the BBC so must be true... 🙂
Lidl are selling NR nostalgia
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Beatles were the birth of the boy band , it was on the BBC so must be true...
They were musicians and song writers, I thought the ingredient for a boy band was to have no talent other than looking pretty and being able to dance a bit?.
[i]I thought the ingredient for a boy band was to have no talent other than looking pretty and being able to dance a bit?[/i]
It appears that people interpret it as 'some boys in a band'. #clueless
I would say the definition of a boyband would be something like a band brought together by a record company or manager in order to perform music written by other people (although some like take that wrote their own music as well). The monkees would probably be an early example, and a lot of the motown stable of performers would also match that description.
And Adam and the ants were definitely new romantic.
I would say the definition of a boyband would be something like a band brought together by a record company or manager in order to perform music written by other people (although some like take that wrote their own music as well).
I agree , the beeb doc on boy bands was using the idea of the beatles as a blueprint used for future ones ,for instance the effect the beatles had on predominantly female fans , the cute member(paul obvs),
the misunderstood one (john) , the calm one (george) and then there's ringo.... 😉