Hoping the Kemp brothers are releasing another wonderful mockumentury. I’d love to see Ross Kemp turn up claiming to be their brother and wanting to join Spandau ballet frilly shirt and all.☺️
Great to hear Peter Powell ("Hello mate" 😆) get mentioned...He was a really good DJ & very pro pushing new music, new bands & new releases on all of his Radio 1 shows in the 80's...& he used to get frustrated on-air that so much good music simply couldn't get in the Top 40 chart because there was so much music being released in those times...we just didn't realise how good we had it...! Peter would actually make for a good guest here on Word....👌
I recall Rosie the Irish girl downstairs who got an eye-infection due to her New Romantic hair-style. ps If you'd told me in 1982 that I'd be listening to the bloke from Spandau Ballet in forty year's time and enjoying it I'd have told you to... [continued page 94]
Back in the day I looked upon Spandau as a bunch of poncey London poseurs. Having watched this, I found GK to be a thoroughly interesting and intelligent man. Good luck to him.
Was more ABC and Cure tbh, but that totally unexpected entrance of the giant Richard Hawley, and the description of his parents lives, oof! Fair play mate!
I too love David's succinct record reviews on Instagram. He is so eloquent on the brilliant but perpetually marginalized, Little Feat. A group I never hear on commercial radio, sadly..." Lowell right through the night!".
@@BBlooger Yes, he was an abstract genius. Never an obvious chord. Without Lowell's great songs they became an indulgent jam band. His songs were never gratuitous. '20 Million Things' sounds more poignant with every passing year...
A man who has said so many nasty things about a former mate and band member, about the man without whom he had never would have earned his millions, doesn't deserve to be called 'decent'.
Could have been a good time to ask him if he regrets not having been in the Bodyguard's soundtrack instead of the movie cast. As we know by Nick Lowe, just by getting a song in that record, he would have been enjoying a substantial flow of royalties all these years. I bet that being billed third on the cast (just after Kevin and Whitney, no less) has not been as rewarding.
Amused me that David, who has been saying for years that there’d be a CD revival at least in value, kept schtum about this theory when Gary talked of how worthless CDs were and he’d chucked his in the skip. No conviction! 🤣
I had high hopes for Spandau Ballet when they started. The Bowie vibe and a sense that they were going to be original and exciting. Unfortunately they couldn't wait to sell out and just become plastic pop stars. I still love my Bowie and Bolan records but Spandau Ballet albums and CDs are the stuff you find in charity shops for 50p.
@BBlooger Well, that song I thought was great. And that set a standard. Chant No1 had a great groove ( Beggar and Co brass?) but after that it was just chartbound mush. Fair enough, they lived the life and made their own choices. But 'in my opinion' they were no more the heirs to Bowie and Roxy Music than, say, Crowded House, the Thompson Twins or Soft Cell.
@BBlooger I agree. But here's the problem. If Spandau had kept with the Bowie/RM vibe they would have been a classier cut above Duran Duran. As it is they decided to go for the same market and as a pop band DD were better. I remember how Soandau went from Willie Brown/ PX fashion to mullets, blouson leather jackets and baggy white trousers. We know that pre Spandau they were essentially a pub rock/ power pop band who saw the NR thing and attached themselves to it. Cleverly. They always wanted fame and money, kind of understandably, but the Bowie stuff was secondary to the ambition of being rich working class lads. Gary Kemp has rewritten history to edit out their early attempts to be a Generation X type of band, and now he's this disciple of Bowie, and that is his version of Spandau's lineage in 'Rock's Rich Tapestry' as Julie Burchill once said. Having been a real Bowie fan during the 70s, when he was the only thing of importance, creatively, to my young self, I couldn't believe how quickly they sold out and went mainstream. Looking back and in pursuit of something defiantly creative I became a fairly obsessive Fall fan. Although MES always pretended to hate tge idea of the Fall having 'fans'. So I have little interest in SBs discography because it was mostly cr@p after tge first couple of records. Anyway, that's just my take, we all have our own tastes and history and your opinion is as valid as mine.
@@mesolithicman164 Yeah, because Bowie totally never sold out or went for pop singles... Bowie totally never attached himself to a movement to stay relevant. Love Bowie, but come on, he's not exactly Peter Hammill.
Hoping the Kemp brothers are releasing another wonderful mockumentury. I’d love to see Ross Kemp turn up claiming to be their brother and wanting to join Spandau ballet frilly shirt and all.☺️
Great to hear Peter Powell ("Hello mate" 😆) get mentioned...He was a really good DJ & very pro pushing new music, new bands & new releases on all of his Radio 1 shows in the 80's...& he used to get frustrated on-air that so much good music simply couldn't get in the Top 40 chart because there was so much music being released in those times...we just didn't realise how good we had it...!
Peter would actually make for a good guest here on Word....👌
In 1980 who could have predicted a band comprising Floyd and Spandau members? Gary hugely engaging and articulate.
Gary's a superb racounteur & a brilliant musican and songwriter. This was refreshingly candid & fun. Thanks, guys. 🌅
“A Porky Prime Cut”, “Porky” and “Pecko” were written in the deadwax on those records mastered by engineer George Peckham
My old band had our record cut at Porky’s.
Another good one chaps.
I recall Rosie the Irish girl downstairs who got an eye-infection due to her New Romantic hair-style. ps If you'd told me in 1982 that I'd be listening to the bloke from Spandau Ballet in forty year's time and enjoying it I'd have told you to... [continued page 94]
Haha same! Even Lydon has mellowed with age!
Gary, when I buy your album, I am going to buy it as a CD, then listen to it much longer than 15 minutes!!
Back in the day I looked upon Spandau as a bunch of poncey London poseurs. Having watched this, I found GK to be a thoroughly interesting and intelligent man. Good luck to him.
This 69 yr old enjoyed this little music biz history chat.
Was more ABC and Cure tbh, but that totally unexpected entrance of the giant Richard Hawley, and the description of his parents lives, oof! Fair play mate!
I too love David's succinct record reviews on Instagram. He is so eloquent on the brilliant but perpetually marginalized, Little Feat. A group I never hear on commercial radio, sadly..." Lowell right through the night!".
Fantastic group. Love Lowell George's solo album too.
@@BBlooger Yes, he was an abstract genius. Never an obvious chord. Without Lowell's great songs they became an indulgent jam band. His songs were never gratuitous. '20 Million Things' sounds more poignant with every passing year...
Grumpy old so-and-so's! CDs are still very much valid - you've just got to have a spare stack of jewel cases. 🙂
I think CDs are fine. People that rhapsodise about scratchy old vinyl and cardboard sleeves are deluding themselves.
@@mesolithicman164 It's the music that counts, not the format. I could care less about that, even the cover art.
@@BBlooger
100%. To me, Search and Destroy is just as potent on CD than vinyl, plus I can play it in the car. Try doing that with an LP!
@@mesolithicman164 Same damage on the speakers though! Love that track & album...
@philiphalpenny9761
Bloody awesome. Particularly when you're in _that_ mood.
One of the most transparently decent people in music and always worth a listen.....good on you Gary
A man who has said so many nasty things about a former mate and band member, about the man without whom he had never would have earned his millions, doesn't deserve to be called 'decent'.
Could have been a good time to ask him if he regrets not having been in the Bodyguard's soundtrack instead of the movie cast. As we know by Nick Lowe, just by getting a song in that record, he would have been enjoying a substantial flow of royalties all these years. I bet that being billed third on the cast (just after Kevin and Whitney, no less) has not been as rewarding.
Guessing he'll be alright with 'Gold'.
Its a beautiful island, i dont know what hes on about!🤷♀️
so men use music like women use fashion, its for sending signals to the crowd!
Amused me that David, who has been saying for years that there’d be a CD revival at least in value, kept schtum about this theory when Gary talked of how worthless CDs were and he’d chucked his in the skip. No conviction! 🤣
It isn't at all about a band having more female followers than male followers. It's about whether or not the band rocks.
I had high hopes for Spandau Ballet when they started. The Bowie vibe and a sense that they were going to be original and exciting. Unfortunately they couldn't wait to sell out and just become plastic pop stars.
I still love my Bowie and Bolan records but Spandau Ballet albums and CDs are the stuff you find in charity shops for 50p.
And to cut a long story short I think you're wrong.
@BBlooger
Well, that song I thought was great. And that set a standard. Chant No1 had a great groove ( Beggar and Co brass?) but after that it was just chartbound mush.
Fair enough, they lived the life and made their own choices. But 'in my opinion' they were no more the heirs to Bowie and Roxy Music than, say, Crowded House, the Thompson Twins or Soft Cell.
@@mesolithicman164 The Freeze has a great groove too. Way better than Duran Duran, who get far too much credit, inho.
@BBlooger
I agree. But here's the problem.
If Spandau had kept with the Bowie/RM vibe they would have been a classier cut above Duran Duran.
As it is they decided to go for the same market and as a pop band DD were better. I remember how Soandau went from Willie Brown/ PX fashion to mullets, blouson leather jackets and baggy white trousers.
We know that pre Spandau they were essentially a pub rock/ power pop band who saw the NR thing and attached themselves to it. Cleverly. They always wanted fame and money, kind of understandably, but the Bowie stuff was secondary to the ambition of being rich working class lads.
Gary Kemp has rewritten history to edit out their early attempts to be a Generation X type of band, and now he's this disciple of Bowie, and that is his version of Spandau's lineage in 'Rock's Rich Tapestry' as Julie Burchill once said.
Having been a real Bowie fan during the 70s, when he was the only thing of importance, creatively, to my young self, I couldn't believe how quickly they sold out and went mainstream.
Looking back and in pursuit of something defiantly creative I became a fairly obsessive Fall fan. Although MES always pretended to hate tge idea of the Fall having 'fans'. So I have little interest in SBs discography because it was mostly cr@p after tge first couple of records.
Anyway, that's just my take, we all have our own tastes and history and your opinion is as valid as mine.
@@mesolithicman164 Yeah, because Bowie totally never sold out or went for pop singles... Bowie totally never attached himself to a movement to stay relevant. Love Bowie, but come on, he's not exactly Peter Hammill.
we floydians loved echoes
Echoes is wonderful.