Comments on: WEEDY EIGHTIES WHITE PEOPLE SINGING ABOUT SOUL STARS 2: Spandau Ballet: True

By: Erithian

Erithian — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:12:12 +0000

Here, in Call My Bluff mode, is a discussion about the various theories as to the origin of the name:
http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=30;t=002685;p=1

I enjoyed the time Martin Kemp’s appearance as the Sun’s Page Seven Fella was highlighted on “What The Papers Say”, with the presenter commenting “And the man on Page 7 is a ballet dancer”.

By: temac

temac — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:39:18 +0000

“Dancing the Spandau Ballet” was WWII British soldiers slang for the dancing of soldiers mown down by the German Spandau machine gun (1200 rounds per minute) – the fastest machine gun of the time

By: Erithian

Erithian — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:22:14 +0000

This is jumping the gun slightly, M. Stick around for a few days.

By: M Robinson

M Robinson — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 07:00:25 +0000

The name ‘Spandau Ballet’ was thought up by my pals and I in 1978.We moved to London, played a gig at ‘The Hope and Anchor pub’ and then found out that someone else had ‘FILCHED’ it. We never had a record deal and therefore are an asset to this site!We sang about tube trains and london crap life at the time.Punk/rock.Terrible but not ‘Fat men singing about American MOR singers. Now, we have to go throught the whole ‘name thing anger’ again.True

By: Geir H

Geir H — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:57:31 +0000

Judging synth based music from how it sounds live is pointless.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:22:11 +0000

Not saying of course that all music from that era was naff, the Cure, Stranglers and Madness to name just three groups of exceptional musical ability from that time. A good yardstick for any band or artist is how they sound live, the above mentioned groups were better live than recorded. I never heard Talk Talk live but the production quality of their recordings on vynil was phenominal.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 07:54:22 +0000

Okay, where in my post do i say that they didnt write their own music?

By: Geir H

Geir H — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:22:23 +0000

Uhhhh.. The New Romantics acts actually wrote their own songs – as opposed to today’s teenyboppers. You don’t know what you are talking about.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:20:40 +0000

Spandau ballet.. Fuck sake.. The name says it all.. May as well call themselves Belsen Flamenco or Auschwitz Jitterbug, new romantics were a scourge on the eyes and ears, a fashion and sound that was cynically crapped endlessly out by record producers that wouldnt know good music if it came up and poked them in the arse with a fender strat.. I thought about buying an ouzi and rid the world of new romantics but after many hours soul searching decided against it as i knew i had an aversion to prison food and being some fat nasty bastards bitch.. I knew that if i waited a few dreary months the saddos that loved new romantic would get bored and find another new fashion…

By: Marcello Carlin

Marcello Carlin — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:19:53 +0000

Of course Gary Kemp could have been listening to his Hitch Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy tapes.

The single most irritating thing about this most irritating of songs is that Tory Hadley is actually singing “Mar-VAIN.” Was this a shortlived Brylcreem wannabe?

By: geekpie

geekpie — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:10:07 +0000

i need your stories about weedy 80s new romantics: http://www.daveches.co.uk/80s

(because they were ace)