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Artist:
Andi Sexgang and Mick Ronson
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Album:
Arco Valley
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Track:
Rock Revo
Just pulling out some random cd's today while working around the house. I picked this up as a Mick Ronson completist, and got a strange companion indeed. Sounding at time like Marc Bolan's long-lost brother, at others like a dark smokey French cabaret where you might not want to be seen; this 1988 release bears little of Ronno's Bowie influence - just a shade and a spice. He relleay lets Andi stand on his own, and it works well. The interesting wiki on Andi's band The Sex Gang Children reads like this:"Sex Gang Children was an early gothic rock group that formed in the early 1980s in Britain. They were a very dramatic band, relying on heavy bass, tribal drumming, sudden mood shifts, a woozy cabaret ready sound that influenced the rise of the later dark cabaret scene, and yet another in a long line of goth singers with an odd, highly dramatic voice. Although the group only released one official album, their singles and various other tracks have been packaged into numerous collections, and they remain one of the more well-known bands out of the early Batcave scene.The name "Sex Gang Children" was taken from a William Burroughs novel by Malcolm McLaren as a possible name for the band that became Bow Wow Wow and was one of the names that Boy George went through before choosing "Culture Club". SGC vocalist Andi Sexgang tried to persuade George to use the name, but when Culture Club drummer Jon Moss passed on the idea, Andi decided that the name should not go to waste."
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