Vintage Magazine Article: The Skive at Night

Check out this vintage magazine article from the 'Deep Sea Skiving' era.

As you can sea (heh), the Bananas were quite keen on having enormous hair in the early eighties.  

One can only imagine the huge amounts of hair products used during this period.  

Donna Summer - Another Place and Time (30th Anniversary)

Donna’s ‘80s close-out album was 1989’s ‘ANOTHER PLACE AND TIME’, which paired her with multi-hit making, multi-million-selling UK producers Stock Aitken Waterman.

The album’s lead single ‘This Time I Know It’s For Real’ was an uplifting, club floorfiller and radio-friendly hit, peaking at #3 in the UK (#7 on the US Billboard Hot 100), giving Donna her highest charting single for more than a decade.

Four further singles were released from the album including the two Top 20 hits, ‘I Don’t Wanna Get Hurt’ and ‘Love’s About To Change My Heart’, giving Donna back-to-back UK Top 10 hits for the first time since 1977, as well as remixed versions of ‘When Love Takes Over You’ and ‘Breakaway’.

This 30th Anniversary Edition is packaged in a sumptuous 24-page A5 Media Book, which contains the original full album credits and acknowledgements, as well as the lyrics, a newly authored 6,400 word liner note by noted US writer Christian John Wikane, featuring new interviews with Pete Waterman, Matt Aitken, Bruce Sudano, Phil Harding and Video Director Dieter Trattmann.

This 3CD version contains 35 Tracks and Mixes, including the original studio album and a large selection of extra singles mixes, 6 unreleased mixes and 2 anniversary megamixes. DONNA SUMMER gained prominence during the 1970s disco era, propelled by her incessant and creative driving force behind the genre’s global popularity, rightly earning the title “Queen Of Disco” and becoming one of the most successful recording artists of the entire decade.

Heaven 17: Play To Win (The Virgin Years) *Signed, Limited Edition*

This Exclusive Edition comes with a limited edition signed print.

To order......

Original members of Sheffield's Human League, Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh left after the first two albums and formed Heaven 17 in 1980. Named after a fictional band in Anthony Burgess's "A Clockwork Orange", they recruited Glenn Gregory on vocals (who had been the original choice for lead singer of the Human League).

Signed to Virgin Records, debut single "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang" attracted a lot of attention in March 1981, and a BBC Radio 1 ban. Debut album "Penthouse And Pavement" was released in September 1981 and was certified Gold the following year. Many more chart singles followed, including Top 5 hits "Temptation" and "Come Live With Me", taken from a further four albums - "The Luxury Gap" (1983), "How Men Are" (1984), "Pleasure One" (1986), and "Teddy Bear, Duke & Psycho" (1988).

This 10 CD set includes the five original albums that the band recorded for Virgin Records, along with over a hundred bonus tracks: non-album A- and B-sides, 7" edits, US edits, instrumentals, 1980 demos, and four CDs of 12" remixes (many of which only saw very limited release).

Housed in a 12" x 12" album-style book, the set will also include a 36 page 12" x 12" booklet with the lyrics, credits, photos, and ephemera from the band's collection, and brand new annotation, based on new interviews with the band.

Bananarama in LA / Bananarama Singles Battle

The Bananarama Singles Battle has begun.

We'll be working through all the Bananarama singles to find out which is the mightiest.

We're only on Round 2 currently.  If you want to join in the fun, the current rounds will be pinned over on Twitter.

Meanwhile, just a few hours ago Bananarama performed to an enthusiastic audience in Los Angeles at 80's Weekend #7 at the Microsoft Theater.

Along with Bananarama, artists The Bangles, OMG and Jody Watley also performed.  Fun!

I haven't seen The Bangles in concert before and I can only imagine how utterly amazing they are live.  That's one to add to my list along with Jody Watley, who is still fabulous and fierce.

I didn't appreciate that OMD had hits in the US.