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Overview

The group comprised Jim Irvin on vocals and percussion, Sally Still on bass, Maya Gilder on keyboards, Tim Whelan on guitar, Hamilton Lee on drums and Larry N’Azone on saxophone. Furniture’s following came from the UK and parts of Eastern Europe where they toured in 1987 and 1988. For other uses, see Singer (disambiguation). ... Percussion instruments are played by being struck, shaken, rubbed or scraped. ... A sunburst-colored Fender Precision Bass The electric bass guitar (or electric bass[1][2]; pronounced , as in base) is a bass stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers (either by plucking, slapping, popping, or tapping) or using a pick. ... Piano, a well-known instance of keyboard instruments A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. ... For other uses, see Guitar (disambiguation). ... A drum kit (or drum set or trap set) is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as a cowbell, wood block, chimes or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer. ... The saxophone (colloquially referred to as sax) is a conical-bored musical instrument usually considered a member of the woodwind family. ... Statistical regions of Europe as delineated by the United Nations (UN definition of Eastern Europe marked red):  Northern Europe  Western Europe  Eastern Europe  Southern Europe Pre-1989 division between the West (grey) and Eastern Bloc (orange) superimposed on current borders: Russia (dark orange), other countries formerly part of the USSR...

Formation

Furniture was formed in the Ealing area of London, England. The group's founding members were Irvin, Whelan and Lee. Simon Beaton (guitar) and Ian Macdonald (bass) joined shortly after, and together Furniture played their first gig in 1979. In 1981 Furniture released their first single, "Shaking Story"/"Take A Walk Downtown" on the band’s own independent record label, The Guy From Paraguay. However shortly after, Macdonald and Beaton left the band. Furniture remained a trio until new members Still and Gilder joined in 1983. , Ealing is a town in the London Borough of Ealing. ... For other uses, see Concert (disambiguation). ... AUGUST 25 1981 US Marine Sean Vance is Born on the 25th of August {ear nav|1981}} Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ... A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ... In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. ... Trio is generally used in any of the following ways: Three musicians playing the same or different musical instrument. ... For the Jimi Hendrix song, see 1983. ...

Record Deal

The Wrong People (1986)

In 1983, Furniture released an E.P. entitled “When the Boom Was On”, on the Premonition imprint of the Ealing based Survival record label. Switching to the main label, they released their next single, "Dancing the Hard Bargain", produced by a former member of Blue Zoo, Tim Parry; followed by "Love Your Shoes", produced by former member of The Teardrop Explodes, Troy Tate; and a self-produced EP "I Can't Crack". Some of this material was collected on an LP on Survival, The Lovemongers. Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... A 12-inch record (left), a 7-inch record (right), and a CD (above) Two 7 singles (left), two colored 7 singles (middle), and two 7 singles with large spindle holes (right). ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... Blue Zoo was a British new wave music group from 1980 to 1985. ... The Teardrop Explodes (L to R) Alan Gill, Julian Cope, Gary Dwyer and David Balfe The Teardrop Explodes was a British New Wave/Neo-Psychedelic band formed in Liverpool in 1978. ...

In 1986 the band switched to Stiff Records and released the single "Brilliant Mind", which peaked at number 21 in the UK Singles Chart. "Brilliant Mind" is the band’s most popular song. It has since been used on a series of 1980s compilation albums, and as regular incidental music in "World Shut Your Mouth" for the character with the cymbals. A re-recorded version of "Brilliant Mind" featured in the John Hughes film, Some Kind of Wonderful. Stiff Records logo Stiff Records is a record label created in London in 1976 by entrepreneurs Dave Robinson and Andrew Jakeman (aka Jake Riviera), and active until 1985. ... “British Hit Singles” redirects here. ... The 1980s refers to the years from 1980 to 1989. ... A compilation album is an album (music or spoken-word) featuring tracks from one or multiple recording artists, often culled from a variety of sources (such as studio albums, live albums, singles, demos and outtakes. ... World Shut Your Mouth was a hidden camera TV series starring Dom Joly. ... It is also possible that you want to know about the Cymbalum instrument. ... This article is about motion pictures. ... The 1987 film Some Kind of Wonderful stars Eric Stoltz, Lea Thompson, and Mary Stuart Masterson. ...

The band attempted to build on their success by releasing a second single, (a re-recorded version of) "Love Your Shoes". By this time Stiff Records was in financial crisis and could only afford to press a limited number of singles. Advance orders for their album The Wrong People were fulfilled with a pressing of 30,000 copies, which sold out quickly, but Stiff Records went into liquidation and was sold to ZTT who pressed no further copies of the album. It was three years before the band could extract themselves from the Stiff contract during which time they toured the world with The British Council, playing shows in Egypt, Jordan, Cyprus, Turkey, Romania, Greece, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia in 1987 and 1989. ZTT, Futurist slogan and sound poem ZTT is an abbreviation for Marinettis sound poem Zang tumb tumb which was to become a futurist slogan during the early 1920s. ... Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija in the Latin alphabet, Југославија in Cyrillic; English: South Slavia, or literary The Land of South Slavs) describes three political entities that existed one at a time on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe, during most of the 20th century. ...

In 1989 the band signed to Arista Records and released the album Food, Sex and Paranoia, which was produced by Mike Thorne. Sessions got underway for a third album, to be released on Survival (who also managed the band), but were curtailed when the label's recording studio was shut down. Furniture decided to take some time off after a series of gigs, one of which was a headlining slot on the second stage at the 1990 Reading Festival, and reconvene after the release of a compilation album, She Gets Out The Scrapbook - released on vinyl and CD by Survival in 1991. Arista redirects here. ... ==Individual Studio== A recording studio is a facility for sound recording. ... For other uses, see Concert (disambiguation). ... The Reading and Leeds Festivals are a pair of annual music festivals that take place in Reading and Leeds in England. ... A compilation album is an album (music or spoken-word) featuring tracks from one or multiple recording artists, often culled from a variety of sources (such as studio albums, live albums, singles, demos and outtakes. ... Chemical structure of the vinyl functional group. ... CD redirects here. ...

But the reunion never happened. Irvin made an album under the name 'Because' (1991), and has since been a music journalist for Melody Maker, Mojo, The Guardian and Time Out. Whelan and Lee went on to form Transglobal Underground in 1992. Music journalism is a specialized branch of entertainment journalism--especially criticism and reportage about music, usually rock, but also hip hop, classical, and electronica, among other forms. ... This article is about the music newspaper. ... Mojo is a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom. ... For other uses, see Guardian. ... Time-out can mean: sport time-out, a break in play that may be called by a side to formulate strategy or respond to an players injury. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ...

An active fan forum, named "wrongpeople" after the band's album, has existed since 2002 on Yahoo. Fans of Furniture discuss the band's music, and exchange information and updates on re-releases. http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/wrongpeople/

Discography

Singles

• April 1984: "Dancing the Hard Bargain" (Survival Records SUR 023) b/w "Robert Nightman's Story"
• December 1984: "Love Your Shoes" (Premonition Records PREM 12002) b/w "Escape Into My Arms" and "The Script"
• May 1985: "I Can't Crack" (Premonition Records PREM 3) b/w "I Can't Crack" (Broken [[Remix|Mix), "Switch Off" and "Pause"
• May 1986: "Brilliant Mind" (Stiff Records BUY 251) b/w "To Gus" and "Brilliant Fragment"
• October 1986: "Love Your Shoes" (Stiff Records BUY 254) b/w "Turnupspeed", "Me, You and the Name".
• October 1989: "Slow Motion Kisses" (Arista Records 112648) b/w "40 Hours in a Day", "Brilliant Mind" and "She Gets Out the Scrapbook"
• February 1990: "One Step Behind You" (Arista Records 112844) b/w "One Step Behind You" (Mark McGuire club remix), "It Continues" and "International People"

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Albums

• September 1983: When the Boom Was On (Premonition Records 4C1)

Tracks: "Transatlantic Cable", "They're On Me", "Robert Nightman's Story", "I Miss You", "Why Are We In Love", "A Letter to Myself"

• June 1986: The Lovemongers (Premonition Records PREM 6)

Tracks: "The Lovemongers", "Throw Away the Script", "Love Your Shoes", "Escape Into my Arms", "What the Fog Said", "Dancing the Hard Bargain", "Bullet", "Talking Kitten", "Sang Froid", "I Can't Crack"

• November 1986: The Wrong People (Stiff Records SEEZ 64)

Tracks: "Shake Like Judy Says", "Love Your Shoes", "Brilliant Mind", "She Gets Out the Scrapbook", "I Miss You", "Make Believe I'm Him", "Let Me Feel Your Pulse", "The Sound of the Bell", "Escape Into My Arms", "Answer the Door", "Pierre's Fight"

• February 1990: Food, Sex and Paranoia (Arista Records 210377)

Tracks: "One Step Behind You", "Slow Motion Kisses", "Swing Tender", "A Taste of You", "A Plot to Kill What Was", "On a Slow Fuse", "Subway to the Beach", "Song for a Doberman", "Love Me", "Friend of a Friend", "Hard to Say"

• September 1991: She Gets Out the Scrapbook (Survival Records SURC13)

Tracks: "Brilliant Mind", "Make Believe I'm Him", "Farewell", "Song for a Doberman", "Dancing the Hard Bargain", "Love Your Shoes", "Robert Nightman's Story", "Slow Motion Kisses", "I Miss You", "How I've Come to Hate the Moon", "Bullet", "Turnupspeed", "One Step Behind You", "She Gets Out the Scrapbook"

(Two tracks, "Shake Like Judy Says" and "Brilliant Mind", can be found on the Stiff Records Box Set (4 CDs) )

External links

• Allmusic.com: Furniture
• Brilliant Minds - The Furniture Story.