He Barn after hearing Kraftwerk the other day I was on a lil synthpop kick Was listening to moon over Moscow by a band called visage.
pretty much was the only song I knew by them so I looked them up they had A song called “fade to grey” and Wasn’t sure if I had heard it before but it had came out in 1980 preceeding the whole synthpop/New Row/Wave explosion that didn’t really take of till 1982 with MTV. Figured, visage may have “missed the boat”
Didn’t realize how influential this band was the lead singer passed in 2015 the guys from Spandau Ballet & Boy George were Pallbearer’s.
But what was interesting is three members of the band left in1982 to join Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. They (Visage) eventually broke up in 1985.
Its cool to hear the pre MTV early stages of what would open the floodgates to the second wave of the British Invasion in the early 80’s