The Glove ‘Blue Sunshine’ (Wonderland/Polydor, 1983)

byJeremy Allen
July 11, 2024

Side projects were everywhere in the 1980s. Talking Heads had Tom Tom Club, David Bowie had Tin Machine and Duran Duran managed to split into two rival factions as Arcadia and The Power Station

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Chris Swansen ‘Album II’ (Badger, 1975)

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Not long after Wendy Carlos officially ‘Switched-On’ the world, Bob Moog and a collection of electronic music pioneers gathered in the gardens of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City to stage the first live performance of the Moog synthesiser

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Mike Batt ‘Zero Zero’ (Epic, 1982)

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“Long, long ago, far into the distant future and after the seventh war, there is a civilisation called System 605. Where the diseases of love and emotion no longer exist to complicate our busy lives…”

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When they first came out, I was slightly too young to appreciate Peter Gabriel’s four, self-titled solo albums that spanned 1977-1982, but ‘Birdy’, his first film soundtrack, really caught my attention.

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It’s 1996, Britpop is all-seeing and Rough Trade couldn’t give a hoot.

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"Despite never having quite the same cachet as your Warps or Ninja Tunes, the Sirkus label was a reliable stamp of quality at the turn of the 21st century..."

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The Glove ‘Blue Sunshine’ (Wonderland/Polydor, 1983)

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Jeremy Allen

Chris Swansen ‘Album II’ (Badger, 1975)

Mike Batt ‘Zero Zero’ (Epic, 1982)

Peter Gabriel ‘Birdy’ (Charisma, 1985)

Disco Inferno ‘Technicolor’ (Rough Trade)

Johnny Conquest ‘Uptown For The Americas’ (Sirkus, 2001)

DARREN PRICE ‘Under The Flightpath’ (NovaMute, 1997)

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The Glove ‘Blue Sunshine’ (Wonderland/Polydor, 1983)

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