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New Romantic was a fashion and music movement that occurred primarily in the United Kingdom and Ireland during the early 1980s. For other uses, see Fashion (disambiguation). ...

Typical musical and stylistic proponents of the New Romantic movement were Spandau Ballet, Visage, Japan, Ultravox, Adam & The Ants, Culture Club, and Duran Duran, especially during the period from mid-1979 to mid-1983.^[1] Others include (to some extent) A Flock of Seagulls, Classix Nouveaux, Naked Eyes, ABC, Talk Talk, OMD,Heaven 17, Soft Cell, Associates, The Passions, The Fixx, China Crisis, The Mood, Fashion, and probably a few more. Spandau Ballet was a popular English band in the 1980s. ... Visage was a New Romantic band that began life in 1978, mainly to provide some danceable music to be played on Steve Stranges and Rusty Egans Billys London nightclub. ... Ultravox (formerly Ultravox!) was one of the primary exponents of the British electronic pop music movement of the early 1980s. ... Adam and the Ants were a new wave band during the late 1970s and early 1980s. ... Culture Club is a popular English new romantic rock group, that achieved considerable global success in the 1980s. ... Duran Duran are an English rock band notable for a long series of popular singles and vivid music videos. ... For the bands self-titled debut album, see A Flock of Seagulls (album). ... Classix Nouveaux were a new wave band formed by Sal Solo and Mike Sweeny as well as ex members of punk band X Ray Specs BP Hurding and Jak Airport. ... Naked Eyes is an English synthpop band, best known for their singles, a cover of the Burt Bacharach / Hal David standard (Theres) Always Something There to Remind Me (Bacharach himself has cited the cover as a personal favourite), and their subsequent hit the Paul McCartney like Promises, Promises. // Naked... ABC is an English New Romantic band that charted eleven Top 40 singles between 1981 and 1990. ... Talk Talk was a popular English music group that was active from 1981 to 1991. ... Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (often abbreviated to OMD) are a synth pop group whose founder members are originally from the Wirral Peninsula, UK. OMD record for Virgin Records (originally for Virgins DinDisc subsidiary). ... Heaven 17 are an English synthpop band originating in Sheffield in the early 1980s. ... Soft Cell is a Synth-Pop duo formed during the early 1980s. ... The Associates were a Scottish new wave band of the early 1980s. ... The Passions were a British pop band, which formed in 1978, and disbanded in 1983. ... The cover of The Fixs first single from 1981: Subsequently the band would change their name to The Fixx, after learning of another band with a prior claim on the name The Fix. ... China Crisis is an British rock group formed in 1979 in Kirkby on Merseyside, with a core band of vocalist/keyboardist Gary Daly and guitarist Eddie Lundon. ... The Mood was a British band from 1981 to 1984, based in York. ... Fashion were a 1980s British band consisting of De Harriss, Luke James,Alan Darby, Mulligan, Marlon Recchi and Dik Davis. ...

Origins

The genre's genesis took place largely through clubs such as Billy's in Dean Street, London, which ran David Bowie and Roxy Music nights in the aftermath of punk. This evolved into the highly successful and elitist Blitz Club in Great Queen Street, and later Hell, which were hosted by Steve Strange who was also the doorman and Rusty Egan who was the DJ. Those two, together with Billy Currie and Midge Ure (both from Ultravox) formed the band Visage. Dean Street is a street in Soho, London, England, running between Oxford Street to the north and Shaftesbury Avenue to the south. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... David Bowie (pronounced ) (born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947) is an English musician, actor, producer, arranger, and audio engineer. ... Roxy Music are an English art rock group founded in the early 1970s by art school graduate Bryan Ferry (vocals and keyboards). ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Great Queen Street is a street in central London, England. ... Steve Strange (born Steven John Harrington on May 28, 1959) is a British singer and pop icon, best remembered as an influential party promoter and as the frontman and lead singer for Visage. ... Rusty Egan (born on 19 September 1957) was the drummer for the British New Wave band, The Rich Kids (founded and fronted by former Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock), from their inception in March 1977 to their disbanding in December 1978. ... Ultravox (formerly Ultravox!) was one of the primary exponents of the British electronic pop music movement of the early 1980s. ...

Boy George was the cloakroom attendant who was sacked by Steve Strange for stealing money from a customer's purse. The club spawned a hundred suburban spin-offs in, around and outside London, among which were Croc's in Rayleigh, Essex, and The Regency in Chadwell Heath, where Depeche Mode and Culture Club had their debut gigs as fledgling bands. (sam light) George Alan ODowd, better known as Boy George (born June 14, 1961 in Eltham, London) is a rock singer-songwriter and club DJ. He grew up in a large, working-class Irish family in Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland. ... Storage is the at least semi-permanent holding of an amount of something. ... Map sources for Rayleigh, Essex at grid reference TQ806907 Arms of the former Rayleigh Urban District Council Rayleigh is a market town in Essex, England located between Chelmsford and Southend-on-Sea. ... , Chadwell Heath is a place in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham in East London. ... Depeche Mode (pronounced ) are an electronic music band formed in 1980, in Basildon, Essex, England. ... Culture Club is a popular English new romantic rock group, that achieved considerable global success in the 1980s. ...

History

The New Romantic phenomenon was similar to that of glam rock during the early 1970s, in that (male) New Romantics often dressed in caricaturally counter-sexual or androgynous clothing and wore cosmetics in the New Wave extension of (or reply to) punk fashion, with frilly "fop" shirts of the English Romantic period, or exaggerated versions of upscale, tailored fashion and grooming and often sported quiffs and used eye-liner liberally. David Bowie was an obvious influence and interestingly his 1980 single "Fashion" was influenced by and was simultaneously considered to be something of an anthem for the New Romantics, as were Brian Eno and Roxy Music. However, as with many art school-based youth movements, by the time this 'anthem' was pronounced, the movement itself, although successfully projecting many new stylish futuristic ideas and visions (with lots of various references to sci-fi), had been seized upon by commercial forces, and watered-down versions were being cheaply reproduced for the High Street[1]. Glam rock (also known as glitter rock), is a rock music style that developed in the UK in the post-hippie early 1970s which was performed by singers and musicians wearing outrageous clothes, makeup, hairstyles, and platform-soled boots. ... Make-up redirects here. ... The term New Wave has been used to describe several movements in art. ... FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) is an XSL-FO processor written in Java, which provides the feature to convert XSL-FO files to PDF or direct-printable-files. ... Romantics redirects here. ... Fashion is an album track on David Bowies Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps). ... Brian Eno (pronounced IPA: ) born on 15 May 1948 in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England) is an English electronic musician, music theorist and record producer. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Main Street. ...

Of the many differences from glam, however, was that instead of guitar rock, the music was largely synthesiser-based electronic music, and rhythmically driven, layered with moody synth-produced melodies. Writing and musical composition tended towards emotionally romantic, mood and place evocative, again echoing the English Romantic artistic period. Culturally separating the New Romantic from original Romanticism was the embrace of the present (technolog), at least musically speaking, rather than the rejection of it.[2] German electronic innovators such as Kraftwerk and Can were cross cultural musical influences as were American urban dance music, rap, funk and R&B music genres. Major British influences included the futuristic sounds of computer-synthesiser experimenters such as Landscape and Ultravox intelligently introducing innovative and experimental sounds. Rhythm machines were introduced into wide use by this movement largely due to the experiments of drummers Richard James Burgess (Landscape), Warren Cann (Ultravox) and Rusty Egan (Visage). Dublin, Ireland was strongly influenced by the New Romantic phenomenon and in the early 1980's, a popular dancing venue on the city's Southside called "The Afro Spot", featured New Romantic music and was crowded with "New Romanticists". One of the club's frequent patrons was the Dublin-born musician Gavin Friday of The Virgin Prunes. Glam rock (also known as glitter rock), is a rock music style that developed in the UK in the post-hippie early 1970s which was performed by singers and musicians wearing outrageous clothes, makeup, hairstyles, and platform-soled boots. ... For other uses, see Guitar (disambiguation). ... This article is about the genre. ... The term synthesiser is also used to mean frequency synthesiser, an electronic system found in communications. ... For other uses, see Electronic music (disambiguation). ... Romantics redirects here. ... Kraftwerk (pronounced , German for power station) is a Grammy award nominated, electronic music band from Düsseldorf, Germany. ... Can was a musical group formed in West Germany in 1968. ... RAP may mean: the IATA airport code for Rapid City Regional Airport Rassemblement pour lalternative progressiste, a Québecois political party. ... For other uses, including related musical genres, see Funk (disambiguation). ... Rhythm and blues (or R&B) is a musical marketing term introduced in the United States in the late 1940s by Jerry Wexler at Billboard magazine, used to designate upbeat popular music performed by African American artists that combined jazz and blues. ... Landscape were a British synthpop band of the early 1980s best known for their 1981 hits, Einstein A Go-Go and Norman Bates. Landscape consisted of: Richard James Burgess, Christopher Heaton, Andy Pask, Peter Thoms and John Walters Richard James Burgess went on to produce bands such as Spandau Ballet... Ultravox (formerly Ultravox!) was one of the primary exponents of the British electronic pop music movement of the early 1980s. ... Richard James Burgess Richard James Burgess [1], has been successful as a studio session drummer, music computer-programmer, major label artist, record producer, published author and manager. ... Warren Cann (born 20 May 1952, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada) was a drummer and drum machine programmer, best known as a member of the British New Wave band Ultravox. ... Rusty Egan (born on 19 September 1957) was the drummer for the British New Wave band, The Rich Kids (founded and fronted by former Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock), from their inception in March 1977 to their disbanding in December 1978. ... Southside or South Side may refer to the following: // South Side, County Durham, a village in the County Durham, England Southside (shopping centre), a shopping centre in Wandsworth, London Southside (Dublin), an area in Dublin Southside, Alabama, a city in Alabama Southside, Birmingham, Alabama, a neighborhood in Birmingham, Alabama Southside... Gavin Friday (born Fionan Martin Hanvey, 8 October 1959, Dublin) is an Irish singer and songwriter, composer and painter. ... An Irish rock band. ...

Jim Fouratt of Danceteria, New York City spotted the burgeoning movement in London and was an early champion for what would become the second British invasion. Spandau Ballet visited New York in 1981 for a landmark performance at the Underground. By the mid 1980s the genre had its feet firmly planted in America.On the west coast in California its moniker saw a slight shortening and "New Ro" (pronounced newro) became a trend among teens looking for a synthetic medium between the surf and ska inspired "Mod" category, and the rougher guitar-based Punk scene. The Danceteria was a notable nightclub located in New York City which operated from 1982 until 1986. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Surf music is a genre of popular music associated with surf culture, particularly Orange County and other areas of Southern California. ... This article is about the genre. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ...

The movement hit Los Angeles in the early 1980s, when Henry Peck and Joseph Brooks (original Proprietors of Vinyl Fetish) opened The Veil club in Los Angeles and ran it from April 1981 to August 1983. On a memorable evening, Steve Strange showed up where the club was held at Club Lingerie in a horse-drawn carriage. Brooks and Peck went on to open several other clubs including: the one of the earliest Goth clubs (The Scream Parlour was first, though it was heavily influenced by Brooks and Peck via Vinyl Fetish) in Los Angeles, the Fetish Club, modeled after London's The Batcave; TVC15; and The Glam Slam. Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... The Batcave, was a nightclub in London, England at Dean Street Soho, it is considered as the birthplace of the goth subculture. ...

In the mid-1990s, New Romantic was revived in England as a movement called Romo (romantic modern) in clubs like Club Skinny. Orlando is generally seen to have been the most successful Romo group. Early in the 21st century the short-lived Electroclash scene revived many stylistic elements of the new romantic period; Fischerspooner and other bands were briefly popular. Electric Dreams club in London continues to keep the spirit of the music alive. The music has also seen a new level of interest since the BBC's Ashes to Ashes series has run on TV. The scene is sometimes credited with paving the way for the success of the Scissor Sisters.^[2] For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Romo was a short-lived British pop cultural movement, which had its heyday in late 1995 and early 1996. ... Orlando was a band founded by Dickon Edwards, otherwise known as the moocher. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Fischerspooner is an electroclash duo and performance troupe formed in 1998 in New York. ... Ashes to Ashes is a British television drama series, which serves as a sequel to the 2006 series Life on Mars. ... The Scissor Sisters are an American alternative band who formed in 2001. ...

See also

• New Primitives
• Neo-romanticism
• New Wave music
• Synthpop

New Primitives was a cultural movement in Sarajevo in 1980s. ... The term neo-romanticism is used to cover a variety of movements in music and painting. ... New Wave was a music genre that existed during the late 1970s and the early-to-mid 1980s. ... Synthpop is a subgenre of New Wave in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. ...

References

1. ^ Malins, Steve (February 2001). Interview with Robbie Grey and Steve Walker. Beggars Group. Retrieved on 2007-06-11.
2. ^ "This is when Scissor Sisters were born, emerging from Manhattan's electroclash scene." in McLean, G. "Sisters under the skin" 9 September 25, 2004 (retrieved 19 May, 2007).