Gig Review: Speak and Spell – Music for the Masses, Islington O2, London, 23/09/17
❉ We review and chat with Europe’s premier Depeche Mode tribute band, at their Saturday 23 September 2017 gig.
ELECTRONICA
Swan Song: Siouxsie Sioux’s ‘Mantaray’
❉ Looking back on Siouxsie’s first and only solo album, released a decade ago today.
‘Noise Reduction System: Formative European Electronica 1974-1984’
❉ Journey into the origins of electronica in Europe – from early techno and electro to synth-pop, industrial, ambient and noise experiments.
Tara Busch and Maf Lewis present ‘Zombies 1985’
❉ The sound of a neon-lit LA of the 1980s rapidly unspooling into chaos.
Blancmange return with ‘Unfurnished Rooms’
❉ Cult synth act poised to release a new album written and recorded by Neil Arthur and co-produced by Benge.
Coming Soon: John Foxx & The Maths – ‘The Machine’
❉ Brand new album by electro pioneer John Foxx and analogue synth specialist, Benge.
Keith Seatman – ‘all hold hands and off we go’ reviewed
❉ The fifth album of Electronica, Psych, Radiophonics, Drone and wyrd folk by Keith Seatman.
A Year In The Country – ‘The Restless Field’ reviewed
❉ Now That’s What I Call Hauntology.
Mesh – Britain’s Best Kept Secret
❉ Ange Chan profiles Bristol-based electronic band Mesh, and chats with Richard Silverthorn.
Non-stop electro cabaret: ‘Electric Dreams’
❉ Ange Chan reports back from a weekend of wall-to-wall eighties electro pop.