Last night Darren, Paul, Simon and I spent a fantastic evening with The Art of Noise at The Jazz Café in London's glitzy Camden.
Not a band you think would necessarily work live, but it was an incredibly entertaining show. A full set of classics all remixed, reimagined, and revised along with brand new visuals.
We had a Moon landing, the monkeys in 2001: A Space Odyssey drummed out to a Beat Box, Malcolm McLaren's Duck Rocked, Prince vs Tom Jones had a mashed-up Kiss, Yes there was an Owner Of A Lonely Heart, Peter Gunn fired up Neil X's twangy Duane Eddy guitar, there were dreamy Moments In Love, at times we were Close (To The Edit), the doors got blown off The Italian Job, and Max Headroom called the s-s-s-s-shots. Hey!
There was no Trevor Horn, Paul Morley nor Anne Dudley but original engineer Gary Langan and programmer J J Jeczalik provided us with a night that was thrillingly inventive, reasonably danceable and full of interesting bits to laugh, love and dance to.
Who's Afraid the Art of Noise? Hey! Hey! Hey! Not me!
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