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It appears that people interpret it as 'some boys in a band'
I interpret it as a group of young males with little or no musical talent whose sole purpose is to enrich promoters and sell merchandise whilst engendering their followers with a false sense of purpose or social merit #sheepwithmohawks
ZippyKona - where can i get that card from - have a mate coming up to his half century?
Wrt to that card - Adam Ant is 60. (As is Howard Jones!)
Just to make us all feel even older... 😆
[i]a group of young males with little or no musical talent whose sole purpose is to enrich promoters and sell merchandise[/i]
Yep, agrreed...
[i] whilst engendering their followers with a false sense of purpose or social merit [/i]
Ah ok, so make stuff up to fit your interpretation. Very good.
.... Very good
Thank you 🙂
Hmmm. So there were no NR bands.
Just a bunch of cross dressing types in a club called Blitz...
My apologies for the question.
I went thru my mid teens in the thick of it. I don't recall Adam and the Antz ever being considered New Romantic at the time, I just recall them being a pop punk band who became a panto pop band. In hindsight they probably did draw a line under Punk/New Wave for an age group and took another into the next big pop thing, New Romantic.
I'm surprised at suggestions Heaven17, ABC and Ultravox weren't New Romantics, because that's not what I recall, maybe they weren't if you lived in London and went to the Blitz, but they were to most of the rest of the country's kids. OK, H17's early fascist Groove thang was completely different to what they were quickly known for, but many examples of that, The Who a decade before went from mod to rock when they realised where everyone else was at, The Shamen a decade later started with a minor hit Jesus Loves America and then went to what they became best known for and it was like chalk and cheese. Just because they started at a different point doesn't mean they weren't a pop acid house band or whatever the hell they quickly became, same for Heaven17.
Anyway, hated the lot of them, it was mostly pretentious crap, I could just about stomach the Julian Cope Kilimanjaro album (can't recall the band name right now). I do have a soft spot for Kings of the Wild Frontier.
don't recall Adam and the Antz ever being considered New Romantic at the time, I just recall them being a pop punk band who became a panto pop band.
Became a panto band? They were from the start, surely? (Like most of the bands involved with McLaren , I'd be tempted to say.) I was 12 when they first apppeared and even then I thought AatA were infantile.
[i]They were from the start, surely?[/i]
Zerox Machine*? Panto? No way! Were a new wave band to start with, then Adam sought fame and fortune and went for the pop angle. Coincidentally came about around the time of the new romantics.
*yes, i know it wasn't their first single, but Young Parisians was crap (though still not panto)
Ok. I was 12. It was a lifetime ago. It's time for bed. 🙂
He started it as a semi Punk band with a bit of success, Dirk wears white sox, car trouble etc then joined the Mclaren band wagon and it went to the next level. That's how I recall it. Lost it's way fairly quickly as I recall, they went from sensation to hated in a matter of months amongst my cool school crowd. Friends went from loving it, dressing like him for a few months to giving / throwing his records away months later.
Obviously, I was always a punk level above all that 😉
N.A.Palmer aka B.A.Nana
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I did punk to New Romanticism with probably a bit of new wave in between ,although my music range is eclectic I still don't mind sticking on Machine Gun Etiquette at full blast
I remeber Japan,Visage and early Human League as being at them forefront of it all with others jumping on the band wagon like Spandau Ballet ,Ultravox etc
You have to remember this was a scene with certain ringleaders (Steve strange and pals) with some now well known faces / bands hanging around in the right places.
The same happened 10 or so years earlier with punk with Vivienne Westwoods/ Malcolm McClarens shop sex being a hub for people to meet share ideas form bands and whatever, many of the folk of the day just all moved in the samecircles
I have been thinking about this and the NR scene was pretty small and elitist. Steve Strange was the ring master of the circus with his door policy at the Blitz club. Bands were pretty few, Spandau Ballet, Visage, Duran Duran you could put Japan into that but they weren't commercial at all. Maybe one or two others. It didn't last very long.
I wouldn't put Human League into the NR camp they were more like Subway Army and Gary Numan in being a synth band.
Nah, Human League weren't.
This however, was the peak of New Romanticism in every way
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ZippyKona - where can i get that card from - have a mate coming up to his half century?POSTED 1 DAY AGO # REPORT-POST
They are made by a company called Twizler. I'm on holiday back in 2 weeks if you can't get one email me.
Answering the op's question its a NO.
all i remember is them dancing around (in frilly shirts, trousers very baggy around hips and thigh and skin tight below the knee)slowly waving their arms around while looking at their own testicles 😯
I wouldn't put Human League into the NR camp they were more like Subway Army and Gary Numan in being a synth band.
(Tubeway Army BTW) I'm sure you're right, northern band, probably never went to the Blitz, started long before new romantic, but I recall they were pigeon-holed into the same genre at the time, certainly for a short period. Sound of the Crowd / Dare Album was shoe horned into that whole NR group at the time. The purists might say not, but they were.
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Dare is still one of my all-time favorite albums. Their earlier work is errr interesting (Being Boiled...?). Of course the original two members left to form the BEF and then Heaven 17 with Glen Gregory (bigger vocal range than Phil, but only just). And I have always loved H17 - first band I learned all the lyrics to every album. Loved much of the NR music too (Spandau Ballet excluded). Never applied make-up nor worn an inappropriate teatowel.
Some of the NR music is still a great listen. Some less so.