Tag: 1980s Music

Wuthering Heights: A Kate Bush & Friends Discotheque

Calling all Babooshkas, Army Dreamers and Rubberband Girls! Put on your Red Shoes, saddle up the Hounds Of Love and get Running Up That Hill back to the Top Of The City (aka Aatma in Manchester) for a night dedicated to the genius of the iconic Kate Bush! And we’re counting it as a sort of “Happy Birthday Kate” party, as her birthday is on 30th July, so it’s near as dammit! • HEADS WE’RE DANCING: We’ll be doing the Jig Of Life and Moving around the dancefloor to all of Kate’s best singles, album tracks and collaborations, all interspersed with Moments Of Pleasure from complimentary artists such as Tori Amos, Fleetwood Mac, Florence + The Machine, Eurythmics & Annie Lennox, David Bowie, Bjork, Pet Shop Boys and more! • CLOUDBUSTING: We’ll be creating an authentic atmosphere for Them Heavy People through an overuse of smoke machines to accompany the free Kate face masks, Kate lyric posters and Kate capes (yes, CAPES!) that we’ll be giving away on a first come, first served basis on the night! • WOW: Dressing up is positively encouraged as we’ll be having ‘Bush-offs’ during the night, where lucky contestants will be invited onto our stage to lip-sync for their lives to selected songs from the Bush back catalogue, with prizes for the ultimate King Of The Mountain! • EAT THE MUSIC: And we’ll be playing Kate’s iconic debut single Wuthering Heights on the hour, every hour (alternating both versions)!

A PART OF NO TRIBE Book Launch

Book launch with spoken WORD performances and in conversation with Ian Moss and Mick Middles.

MY LIFE THROUGH ONE THOUSAND 7″ SINGLES
VOLUME 2 – 1980-89

by Ian Keith Moss – Foreword by Mick Middles

Ian Moss’s second volume of singles reviews, following The Original Soundtrack that covered 1970-79, covers a decade of extreme political upheaval. From the threat of nuclear war and the miner’s strike to acid house and the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was plenty to get worked up about in the eighties, but great societal panics often bring with them fantastic music.

As a part of no tribe Ian runs his eye over the profusion of musical genres produced by the decade from the dying embers of post-punk to early house and garage, the rise of hip-hop, the burst of colour brought by new romantics and synth-pop which sat besides the likes of George Michael, Michael Jackson, Prince and Madonna at the top of the pop charts.

Yet even these stars were soon stopped in their tracks by advances in technology that allowed hits to be composed in bedrooms by innovative and talented artists who would never have got through the door at a major label in previous eras yet became the basis for whole new musical genres.
Ian Moss takes the reader on a journey through arguably the most influential decade in music history.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ian Moss’s first book 100 Unhip Albums’ (We Must Learn to Love) was a hit with music lovers from all over the world during the enforced Covid-19 lockdown. His polemic style asserts rather than persuades and forces you to listen to the music and make up your own mind. The Original Soundtrack is volume 1 of his life story told in the same forthright, open and honest manner.

As the vocalist and lyricist of bands such as Stepbrothers, Sicknurse, Kill Pretty, and currently, Four Candles, Ian has realised his own musical vision. But he has also created opportunities and spaces for other bands and artists as the founder and co-owner of the German Shepherd Record label. His writing reflects someone who loves music and wants to share it. It also reflects the personality of someone who has spent his life championing music that most people don’t get to hear. In a world where access to music is easier than it has ever been, and where vast choices are available, Moss is uniquely positioned to direct you to overlooked gems.