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positive electricity - those who are unable to tell their tape recorders from their drum machines need not apply… 🎤🎹🔌⚡️

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The latest episode of Back To NOW hosted by @poprambler.bsky.social looks back at the very varied music of 1980 with Andrew Harrison and Mark Wood 🎶 shows.acast.com/backtonow/ep...
NOW Yearbook ‘80: Andrew Harrison & Mark Wood | Back to NOW!
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November 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Today, family and friends said goodbye to Dave Ball… as a tribute, ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK would like to post our last conversation with him from May 2023 when we played a game of Vintage Synth Trumps and talked about the instruments that shaped his career 🎹😢 www.electricityclub.co.uk/vintage-synt...
Vintage Synth Trumps with DAVE BALL - ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK
Although he began with a Fender Telecaster, twin stylus Stylophone and second hand Akai reel-to-reel tape recorder to compose primitive ambient experiments, when a young Dave Ball bought a MiniKorg 80...
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November 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
‘Kingdom Undersea’, the new single by @ladytrongroup.bsky.social features the vocals of Danny Hunt alongside those of Helen Marnie, the forthcoming album ‘Paradises’ from the reconfigured trio comes out via Nettwerk on 20th March 2026 🎤🎹🎤🎹🎤🎹🎶 m.youtube.com/watch?v=U1r3...
Ladytron - Kingdom Undersea (Official Video)
YouTube video by Ladytron
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November 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK presents a new interview with Jerome Froese about his recently released album ‘Sunsets in Stereo’ and a lot more 🎹🎸🇩🇪 🎶 www.electricityclub.co.uk/a-short-conv...
A Short Conversation with JEROME FROESE - ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK
Jerome Froese is back with a new album ‘Sunsets in Stereo’. Known for his distinctive fusion of electronic textures and guitar-driven soundscapes, he has carved out his own distinct niche in ambient r...
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November 24, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Have you read the Karl Bartos autobiography 'The Sound Of The Machine' from 2022? This was what ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK thought about it 🎶 www.electricityclub.co.uk/karl-bartos-...
KARL BARTOS The Sound Of The Machine - ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK
Originally published in 2017, ‘Der Klang Der Maschine’ was the detailed autobiography of electronic pioneer Karl Bartos. Best known for his role in the classic line-up of KRAFTWERK with Ralf Hütter, F...
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November 23, 2025 at 11:11 AM
An honest and hilarious account of the making of the first SIMPLE MINDS album ‘Life In A Day’ on the Mick McNeil podcast 🎹🎶🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 m.youtube.com/watch?v=1OGB...
LIFE IN A DAY
YouTube video by Mick MacNeil
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November 22, 2025 at 9:45 PM
More recent Landscape talk, this time from 2023 with John L Walters which was coinciding with the career spanning ‘Landscape A-Go-Go’ boxed set 🎹🥁🎺🎷🎸🎶 www.electricityclub.co.uk/landscape-in...
LANDSCAPE Interview - ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK
Comprising of Richard James Burgess, Chris Heaton, Andy Pask, Peter Thoms and John L Walters, LANDSCAPE began as a jazz rock band. Keen to subvert their sound using electronic processing, synthesizers...
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November 22, 2025 at 8:44 AM
From the archives of ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK, an in-depth interview with Richard James Burgess from 2010 with lots of Landscape, Simmons drums and production talk 🥁⚡️🎚️🎚️🎚️🎚️ www.electricityclub.co.uk/richard-jame...
RICHARD JAMES BURGESS Interview - ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK
Richard James Burgess is the renowned record producer who famously coined the term New Romantic. He is also a successful musician in his own right with the group LANDSCAPE. On a rare visit to the UK...
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November 22, 2025 at 8:37 AM
ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK interviews the delightful Mari Kattman about the 'Year Of The Katt' and how she has become the alluring gothic club queen offering strong messages of female empowerment 🎤🎹🎵☺️ www.electricityclub.co.uk/mari-kattman...
MARI KATTMAN Interview - ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK
Blessed with one of the best voices in dark electronic pop, Mari Kattman has been writing, recording, producing and performing music since 2012. While on her recent UK tour with ASSEMBLAGE 23, Mari K...
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November 21, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Our friends at @coldwarnightlife.bsky.social give their very interesting and well-researched take on the new Rusty Egan autobiography 📚 www.coldwarnightlife.com/2025/11/20/r...
Rusty Egan: The Poser and the Glory
If you want to hear Rusty Egan on Visage’s biggest hit, “Fade to Grey,” you need to get the single version. Hear that DUUSSCHHH… extended hit from the Simmons SDS?…
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November 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK managed to get tickets, did you??? 🎤🎹😀
Priority ticket access for all five “Obscure Pet Shop Boys” shows at London’s Electric Ballroom is now available to all who pre-ordered “Pet Shop Boys Volume” or registered via the store before 18th November 12:00 PM GMT - please enter your unique access code at the link that was emailed to you.
November 19, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Coming up on ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK this weekend is a fun interview with Mari Kattman but until then, have you checked out her most recent album ‘Year Of The Katt’? It’s one of the best of 2025 🎤🎹🎶 www.electricityclub.co.uk/mari-kattman...
MARI KATTMAN Year Of The Katt - ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK
From Boston Massachusetts, Mari Kattman has been writing, recording, producing and performing music since 2012. It is indeed the ‘Year Of The Katt’ and with the best solo effort yet from Mari Kattman...
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November 19, 2025 at 8:01 AM
ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK presents a new interview with THOMPSON TWINS’ Tom Bailey, he chats about the new “best of” album ‘Industry & Seduction’, his 2026 tour with BLANCMANGE, performing at Live Aid with Madonna and much more 🎤🎹🎸 www.electricityclub.co.uk/thompson-twi...
THOMPSON TWINS’ TOM BAILEY Interview - ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK
Continuing to maintain the musical legacy of THOMPSON TWINS, the band’s lead vocalist and instrumentalist Tom Bailey tours the UK in 2026 in support of a new "best of" album ‘Industry & Seduction’. T...
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November 17, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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With the news that PET SHOP BOYS 'Catalogue' is to be updated and reformatted as a new 592 page hardback publication called 'Volume', a good time to revisit ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK's list of favourite music themed books from 2023 📚🎵 www.electricityclub.co.uk/25-favourite...
25 FAVOURITE MUSIC BOOKS - ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK
Factory Records impresario and Granada TV presenter Tony Wilson once said: “When forced to pick between truth and legend, print the legend.” Not a best of list, here are 25 music books that have beco...
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November 12, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The latest episode of the @soundpowerpodcast.bsky.social features the fascinating electronic composer Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner 🎹🎛️🔌 www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuYN...
SoundPower | EP16: Scanner
YouTube video by SoundPower
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November 15, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Tonight, Saturday 15th November 2025 at 2200 UK time, BBC2 will be showing the SIMPLE MINDS documentary ‘Everything Is Possible’; will you be watching? LET ME SEE YOUR HANDS! 🤗 www.electricityclub.co.uk/in-every-hea...
In Every Heaven: The Legacy of SIMPLE MINDS - ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK
'Themes for Great Cities: A New History of SIMPLE MINDS’ is a new biography by Graeme Thomson on the Glaswegian band that formed in late 1977. Childhood friends Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill had been...
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November 15, 2025 at 6:45 AM
The fantastic 1982 KRAFTWERK documentary for the Austrian TV series 'Ohne Maulkorb' capturing the classic Ralf, Florian, Wolfgang and Karl line-up at their best with very live footage of the ‘Computerwelt’ tour, contains English subtitles ⚡️ youtu.be/3D5ki6tSYoY
Kraftwerk - Ohne Maulkorb - Live 1981 - Remastered (English Subtitles)
YouTube video by WF203
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November 15, 2025 at 6:03 AM
A 25 song Blitz collection compiled by ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK first published in 2020 👩‍🎤👨‍🎤🎶 www.electricityclub.co.uk/tecs-25-song...
25 SONGS OF THE BLITZ CLUB - ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK
The soundtrack of The Blitz Club was provided by its resident DJ Rusty Egan and its story is more than well documented. Using Dave Rimmer’s 2003 book 'New Romantics: The Look' as an initial reference...
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November 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
While ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK is on a Blitz trip, here’s the 2001 BBC documentary ‘The New Romantics: A Fine Romance’ which features the usual suspects and is quite light hearted, we actually prefer it to the Sky ‘Blitzed!’ thing from a few years back if we are honest…🧑‍🎤👨‍🎤 youtu.be/mQkxtK61PEA
The New Romantics: A Fine Romance 1979-1982 🎬💥📺 BBC Documentary '70s '80s Music Scene (2001)
YouTube video by max mix
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November 14, 2025 at 10:59 AM
ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK paid a visit to The Blitz Exhibition at The Design Museum 👨‍🎤👩‍🎤
November 14, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Are friends electric? A Numanoid pilgrimage to the former site of Gooseberry Studios at 19 Gerrard Street in London Chinatown where 'Replicas' was recorded… incidentally, the site of the Lee Ho Fook restaurant mentioned in the Warren Zevon song ‘Werewolves Of London’ is 3 doors away to the left ⚡️😁
November 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
‘Chin Up Buttercup’ presents the most accessible AUSTRA album since 2011’s ‘Feel It Break’ as Katie Stelmanis exposes her vulnerability in a manner not heard previously. ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK shares its thoughts in advance of release 🎤🎹 www.electricityclub.co.uk/austra-chin-...
AUSTRA Chin Up Buttercup - ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK
Classically schooled Canadian vocalist and composer Katie Stelmanis is back as AUSTRA with her fifth album ‘Chin Up Buttercup’. Heartbreak set to a dance beat, ‘Chin Up Buttercup’ presents AUSTRA’s m...
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November 13, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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40 years after the release of their 1986 debut album “Please”, Pet Shop Boys will perform five intimate live shows in April 2026 at London’s Electric Ballroom.

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November 12, 2025 at 10:44 AM
With the news that PET SHOP BOYS 'Catalogue' is to be updated and reformatted as a new 592 page hardback publication called 'Volume', a good time to revisit ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK's list of favourite music themed books from 2023 📚🎵 www.electricityclub.co.uk/25-favourite...
25 FAVOURITE MUSIC BOOKS - ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK
Factory Records impresario and Granada TV presenter Tony Wilson once said: “When forced to pick between truth and legend, print the legend.” Not a best of list, here are 25 music books that have beco...
www.electricityclub.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Revisiting this ghostly epic from 2016 by VILE ELECTRODES, brilliant song, brilliant video 🎤🎹🎶 youtu.be/X_UPVDaNhIU
Vile Electrodes: The Vanished Past
YouTube video by Vile Electrodes
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November 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM