a-ha - "Take On Me" (1985) directed by Steve Barron

Ayria/Jennifer Parkin & Amelia Arsenic/DestroyX from Angelspit

Strawberry Switchblade

𝔗𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔰 𝔉𝔬𝔯 𝔉𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔰 – ℌ𝔢𝔞𝔡 𝔒𝔳𝔢𝔯 ℌ𝔢𝔢𝔩𝔰

Tracklist:

Are You Satisfied? • Shampain • I Am Not a Robot • Girls • Mowgli's Road • Obsessions • Hollywood • The Outsider • Hermit the Frog • Oh No! • Rootless • Numb • Guilty

Spotify ♪ Youtube

Aurora // Runaway

The Communards (1986)

Memento Mori

a-ha - "The Sun Always Shines on T.V." (1985) directed by Steve Barron

A new Classix Nouveaux album was not something I remotely expected in 2023

40 years after their last album ‘Secret’ was released in 1983, Classix Nouveaux are back with a brand new album entitled ‘Battle Cry’. Containing nine tracks including seven brand new compositions plus ‘Never Never Comes’ and ‘Interlude/Inside Outside’ which have been re-imagined for the 21st century. Featuring a very guitar-rock sound and also contains a couple of instrumentals which is something that the band used to do on their early albums. In the words of lead singer Sal Solo, this is how the album came about: “The reason this project came about after 40 years is really because of the fans. About 10 years ago, some of the Classix fans were making Facebook pages but it didn’t really come to our attention until a couple of years back. We realised these people are really dedicated and decided to give them a kind of birthday present. I said to the guys ‘Why don’t we do a recording together and surprise the fans?’ Everybody said yes and so we did a quick remake of one of our old songs “Inside Outside” and to our surprise everyone’s immediately talking about new material! We’d never thought about doing new Classix material – we thought it was over years ago. After a few weeks of agonising, we suddenly realised we could be as we are now. In the light of our increased experience and the fact that our fans are mature as well, we decided we would just make the music that we like today. It didn’t take a lot of persuasion to get everyone on board. It’s the original line-up from the first two albums – what people consider the ‘classic’ line-up. We’ve all been in other bands, but somehow, we’ve all just seemed to gravitate back to Classix Nouveaux. It feels like a natural home. We hadn’t been in touch for many, many years and so this album is really what’s brought us back together.” 

Gothic Beauty issue #17 (2005)

Ayria/Jennifer Parkin

Tears For Fears –Shout