Month: December 2013

SuperDeluxeEdition editor and ZTT Records fan Paul Sinclair goes in search of 1980s avant garde pop group, the Art Of Noise.

I was a child of the 1980s. Or rather a teenager. The Gods had decreed that those most impressionable of years would not overlap into any other decade and after many years buying and listening to music I duly turned 20 in December 1989 and became a ‘grown up’ just in time for the nineties.

It was the decade of the eighties that was celebrated last Saturday evening in London, at the Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, with a performance by the BBC Concert Orchestra called 19 Eighties: The Rhythm Of A Decade. The centrepiece of this event was the world premiere of the Art Of Noise‘s 1983 debut release, Into Battle, ‘remixed’ for orchestra. AON’s very own Anne Dudley had created this in addition to another lengthy piece called Rhythm of a Decade. Founding Art of Noise member, Paul Morley, would host the evening and the strong connection with the ZTT record label continued with the inclusion of two pieces by composer and musician Andrew Poppy, who like the Art Of Noise, was signed to the Zang Tumb Tuum in the 1980s.
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