Everything But the Girl – Run a Red Light
Let’s start with Everything But The Girl, and a shot from their magnificent new album, Fuse [Spotify]:
Pet Shop Boys –The Lost Room
Inspired by the 1966 movie “Young Törless” based on a book he’d previously read, Neil Tennant wrote these utterly dark lyrics. “The lost room” refers to a place where boys in military school was humiliated / tortured buy bully boys. Again, very relevant. This is one of the four songs on the “Lost” EP, which can be found on streaming services such as Spotify + as a CD bundled with the latest number of Annually.
Nabihah Iqbal –This World Couldn’t See Us
Also brand new is this song by a (to me) unknown artist, Nabihah Iqbal, very catchy and with a bass sound that brings the thoughts back to New Order’s Peter Hook.
Future Islands – Doves
This is a fairly new band to me (though they was formed in 2006); they played in Oslo late 2022 and I got to see the concert which was very good – apart from the sound. The sound was actually quite terrible. I had to leave just before one of their best songs, Doves, was played. And this is how I discovered Future Islands – I try to catch up on anything Vince Clarke, and so I found his remix of this song. I’ve included both the remix (with no proper video) and the original (with singer Samuel Herring bouncing around).
Mesh – You Didn’t Want Me
In the nineties, I was a frequent guest at a fantastic club and café called “So What” and “Café Image”, respectively. And in 1997, when I entered Café Image for a beer, Tom there was playing a new single by Mesh, “You Didn ‘t Want Me”. And that is how I started to buy their albums and go to a few of their concerts.
INXS – Never Tear Us Apart
Yello – Touch Yello – Virtual Concert
Ending this post with a virtual concert by Yello. This was done a few years before they did a small tour back in 2017.