17/04/2004

Kings Have Long Arms

Got to the club late and only caught the last number of Sub-Culture. They looked cool so I wish I got there earlier.

Sub-Culture

Kings Have Long Arms were amazing and KHLA singer/mastermind Adrian Flanagan is truly a star in the lineage of Tom Jones, Englebert Humperdinck and Bez. Imagine if Phoenix Nights ever did an electro night, KHLA would be the resident band (this is a compliment). They rock, are thoroughly entertaining and I cannot believe they actually got everyone in Electrogogo to do a conga line!

Kings Have Long Arms





The next day they played a goth club and I'm told they got 800 goths to do the conga. Now that is star power! I'm sure the 'keep music dull and serious' brigade will be up in arms but I think the charts need a band that has the humour of say, Madness or The Specials, to clear away the blandness we have to put up with. And KHLA's music is seriously good!











I was real happy to have Rusty Egan dj at Electrogogo. He was one of the first djs I ever got into when I went to my first nightclub Billy's, which he did with Steve Strange before they opened the legendary Blitz club. He was also the first, and for a short while only dj I heard play Kraftwerk in a niteclub. Rusty pioneered the electro-pop / experimental sound of the early 80's that we take for granted nowadays and I think respect is due muthafukas!

Rusty Egan

Roi / Mark Moore / Frankie D

Eddie (again!) / Lucinda

Later he formed the band Visage with Steve Strange and gave us the electronic classics "Fade To Grey" and "Frequency 7" (amongst many more) which still sound fresh today. Also "R.E.R.B." by Shock - another seminal piece of electronic music. You still hear people like Carl Craig and Derrick May play "Frequency 7" now.

Rusty / Barry Sharpe





RUSTY EGAN'S BLITZ PLAYLIST

David Bowie - Heroes
Cabaret Voltaire - Nag Nag Nag
Brian Eno - No One Receiving
Eno/Moebius/Roedelius - Broken Head
Gina X - No GDM
Nina Hagen - TV Glotzer
Human League - Being Boiled
Japan - I Second That Emotion
Japan - Life In Tokyo
Grace Jones - La Vie En Rose
Kraftwerk - The Model
Kraftwerk - Radioactivity
Kraftwerk - Showroom Dummies
La Dusseldorf - Viva
Landscape - Einstein A Go Go
Thomas Leer - Day Breaks Night Heals
M - M Factor
Magazine - Permafrost
Giorgio Moroder - The Chase
The Normal - Warm Leatherette
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Electricity
Iggy Pop - Nightclubbing
Iggy Pop - The Passenger
Wolfgang Reichman - Wunderbar
Rinder & Lewis - Willie And The Hand Jive
Roxy Music - Trash
Shock - R.E.R.B.
Simple Minds - Changeling
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Hong Kong Garden
Soft Cell - Memorabillia
Sparks - Number One Song In Heaven
Telex - Cafe De La Jungle
Telex - Moscow Diskow
Throbbing Gristle - Hot On The Heels Of Love
Ultravox - Hiroshima Mon Amour
Ultravox - All Stood Still
Visage - Visage
Yello - Bostich
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Computer Game
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Firecracker

Kevin Mooney

Roi





Rob

KHLA

Valerie Noblesse Oblige

Also while we are on the theme of Blitz days I have donated some of my vintage, archive photos from the 80's to The Blitz Kids site. There you will see pics taken by me at Billy's, Studio 21 and The Scala Cinema in the days when new romantics wandered the streets of Soho.


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