Bill Macrae (born Bill Moat), was the other half of the early 1980s British New Wave duo Seona Dancing. Macrae attended University College London, where he met Ricky Gervais in June of 1982, and they ended up making a demo tape with sixteen songs. He was responsible for composing the songs, mainly on the synthesizer, while Gervais took his place as the singer/songwriter. After Seona Dancing broke up in 1984, Macrae worked at a record shop in the late '80s. In 2006 he was living in Kennington and working for IBM at the Department of the Environment. He played piano occasionally on open mic nights at the Spice of Life in Soho, and talked often of his love for music. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... New Wave is a term that has been used to describe many developments in music, but is most commonly associated with a movement in Western popular music in the late 1970s and early 1980s inspired by the punk rock movement. ... Seona Dancing (pronounced as Shawna Dancing) was a 1980s British pop group best known for providing Ricky Gervais with his first taste of fame. ... Affiliations University of London Russell Group LERU EUA ACU Golden Triangle G5 Website http://www. ... Ricky Dene Gervais (IPA: according to how Gervais pronounces it on The Ricky Gervais Show) (born June 25, 1961) is an Emmy, Golden Globe and BAFTA award-winning English comic writer and performer from Reading, Berkshire. ... Synthesizer as used in music, is a term derived from a Greek word syntithetai < synthesis (συντίθεται < σύνθεσις) and is used to describe a device capable of generating and/or manipulating electronic signals for use in music creation, recording and performance. ... Seona Dancing (pronounced as Shawna Dancing) was a 1980s British pop group best known for providing Ricky Gervais with his first taste of fame. ...