In a thread that wound around the other day, our fellow MOGger Cody B (known to me as Soul Brother #2) posed an interesting question as regards the escalating cost of concert tickets. The gist was this: The expense of a single entry to a live performance is getting so ridiculously high that rock shows – once the playground of rebellious and/or downtrodden youth - will soon be the domain of only.
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The new ABC album, "Traffic", will be released in the UK on February 4th and the first single is called "The Very First Time."You can listen to the single on MySpace right now.What a good-looking bunch indeed!
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Remember this one? BOO-YA!!!
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Poison Arrow..ABC was formed in 1980 in Sheffield after Martin Fry, a music journalist, interviewed the band Vice Versa for his fanzine Modern Drugs. They adopted Fry as lead vocalist and changed their name to ABC. The revamped band were pigeonholed as part of the New Romantic movement of the time, which included the likes of Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet and The Human League. The band would offe...
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In a thread that wound around the other day, our fellow MOGger Cody B (known to me as Soul Brother #2) posed an interesting question as regards the escalating cost of concert tickets. The gist was this: The expense of a single entry to a live performance is getting so ridiculously high that rock shows – once the playground of rebellious and/or downtrodden youth - will soon be the domain of only.
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Poison Arrow..ABC was formed in 1980 in Sheffield after Martin Fry, a music journalist, interviewed the band Vice Versa for his fanzine Modern Drugs. They adopted Fry as lead vocalist and changed their name to ABC. The revamped band were pigeonholed as part of the New Romantic movement of the time, which included the likes of Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet and The Human League. The band would offe...
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Earlier this month, ABC (with original members Martin Fry and David Palmer) performed the entire Lexicon of Love album (along with some other hits) at Royal Albert Hall with the BBC Orchestra. BBC2 broadcast the show over the weekend.Here's a taste of the show -- the bass line is a bit muted, but Martin is in excellent voice. If the Regeneration Tour hits your town this summer, and you ever li...
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...Way back in the days when dinosaurs like Duran Duran, A Flock of Seagulls and the Thompson Twins ruled the earth's surface, Kidd Video was a cartoon show that used to air when I was a snot-nosed "tween" cutting his teeth in the music-vid age just after MTV got bout-it, bout-it and killed the radio star...every Saturday morning, I'd watch the KV show and follow the marginal-at-best plotlines ...
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Here's a fan video that features the new ABC track "The Very First Time." It's not available for download in the U.S. yet, but UK fans can get it. The song is actually OK.According to ABC fan chatter on You Tube and elsewhere, the single is getting a big push on BBC2.This fan put the new single to scenes from a film called The Deep End.
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| 1 Poison Arrow |
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| 2 Show Me |
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| 3 All of My Heart |
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| 4 Tears Are Not Enough |
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| 5 Many Happy Returns |
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