23 Skidoo – Pineapple Products / Fetish Records – 1980 / 1981 / 1982

Ethics Another Baby’s Face Debut ‘pop’ single from 23 Skidoo, a band who would soon be working closely along side Cabaret Voltaire, and become friendly with Genesis P and Throbbing Gristle. From this debut 7″ single onwards and through the connections of the aformentioned, the band started to work on a more industrial sound, a percussion based freeform music complete with Tibetan thighbone horns […]

Gene Loves Jezebel – Situation Two Records – 1982 / 1983

Shaving My Neck / Sun And Insanity Machismo / Glad To Be Alive Screaming For Emmalene So Young / No Voodoo Dollies A decent couple of 12″ singles from Gene Loves Jezebel. When hearing these records I thought they were quite similar to the Virgin Prunes but without the ‘theatre’. This was no bad comparison as […]

Clair Obscur – All The Madmen Records – 1986

Blume / Zeda / KG / Toundra Slough Of Despond / Czarin / The Rope / Michel / Ethique ‘The Pilgrims Progress’ was a live recording by French Gothic / industrial performance artistes Clair Obscure, released on All The Madmen records in 1986. This band were similar musically and attitude wise to the Virgin Prunes with excellent […]