New Years Eve 2011

The ultimate 80s event is coming soon to Sydney!

Venue: GLEBE ISLAND, Sydney Harbour

Event: NEW YEARS EVE 2011 -> 2012

Featuring Culture Club, Pet Shop Boys, Pseudo Echo, Jamiroquai, and Guy Sebastian.

Culture Club will play after the midnight fireworks.

AMAZING! Sounds like a blast!

http://www.sydneyresolution.com/

http://video.perthnow.com.au/2167695732/Culture-Club-reunite-for-Sydney-NYE-gig

80s Rewind festival moves to Sydney ('Gong Gone!) then cancelled!

EVENT CANCELLED - ignore below!

This just in. The 80s Rewind Festival scheduled for the weekend at the end of October, originally in Port Kembla (NSW), is now moved to the Hordern Pavillion at Sydney!

Also, some bands have been cancelled by the promoter, I guess due to space... Human League and Kool and the Gang, Sister Sledge and The Straits are cut, for instance!




New line-up -

Saturday
Kim Wilde
Ross Wilson
Midge Ure (Ultravox)
Pseudo Echo
Cutting Crew
T’pau
The Real Thing
Nik Kershaw

(1 more Australian act to be announced)

Sunday
Bananarama
Right Said Fred
John Paul Young
ABC
Go West
Tony Hadley (Spandau Ballet)
Mental as Anything

(2 more Australian acts to be announced)

Talk that Walk

An interesting and under-rated band appeared in 1986 called Talk that Walk.

Not too much information seems to be available on this band, apart from the following -

One single released in 1986 - Surface Tension, appears to have entered top 40 in Victoria, Australia upon release, but not sure if charted elsewhere, perhaps explaining their single entry release.

Band members were -

Clive Young - vocals

Nick Lowes - bass/backing vocals

Dean Walliss - synth/backing vocals

Tony Lugton - guitar/backing vocals

Bill Wall - drums

(although this line-up was to change shortly after recording the single, according to the Sounds interview below)

Tony Lugton is well known for being one of the original members of great 80s synth new-wave band Pseudo Echo. Tony performed on the Autumnal Park album, but due to a split in either musical direction or money (depending on which source you believe), he left them and joined Propaganda and Talk that Walk. Tony actually appeared in an incarnation of James Freud's Berlin!

Clive Young actually had better chart success a couple of years later as a solo artist, and apparently still sings and writes these days (refer here for more info).

Apparently Talk that Walk actually toured schools with Pseudo Echo during 1986/1987.

Videos found -

Surface Tension (promo)
Surface Tension (countdown)
Sounds interview with Tony and Clive

Surface Tension (hey hey it's Saturday, 25/4/87)
Details on single release -

WEA 7-258470 / MX212593/4 - 1986 (although picture sleeve is dated 1987).
A side - SURFACE TENSION - length 2:57, produced by Spencer Lee, recorded at Paradise Studios
B side - HARVEST TIME - length 5:23, produced by Peter Leslie & Talk that Walk, recorded at Townhouse Studios

Lyrics as lifted from picture sleeve -

Snapping of the surface tension
Splitting of the fibres
Changing motion  without warning
Calling you.
So, time slapped your face again
Puts you in its case
And then it drills a little hole to hold onto.

Talk a little harder
Maybe work a little harder
Be a walking inspiration
So, hide in your face again
Fill a little space
It's what you want to do.

Well I remain a prisoner
Inside a dying man
Temptation is so sweet
That I taste it while I can.

Ah, that's surface tension.