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38p OCTOBER 1-14 1981 I l'lATCH 1 , '' 2 Volume 3 Number 20 A Note From The -Editor SONGS The hours of feverish discussion are finished. The pile of pencil shavings and discarded colour THUNDER IN THE MOUNTAINS Toyah 2 pictures in the design room tell their own story. OPEN YOUR HEART Human League 4 Smash Hits has just had its annual facelift. We've IT'S MY PARTY Dave Stewart 9 pulled it apart. flung it up in the air, held it up to the JUST CA N'T GET ENOUGH Depeche Mode 9 light, taken it down to the cafe for a hot meal. and generally thought of ways to make it even more MULE (CHANT NO. 2) Beggar & Co. 16 wonderful than it hus been in the past. IT WILL BE ALRIGHT Odyssey 17 Regular readers will have noticed the new price. WALKING IN THE SUNSHINE Bad Manners 21 The rising cost of paper and other materials has MAO EYED SCREAMER The Creatures 22 made this inevitable. We trust you'll agree that GENIUS OF LOVE Tom Tom Club 26 Smash Hits still represents unrivalled value for QUITE AHEAD OF MY TI ME David Bowwow 29 money. even at an extra 3p. So, what's changed? After much discussion we've GET OFF OF MY CLOUD Rolling Stones 35 put the Independents and Disco pages out to INVISIBLE SUN Police 38 pasture. We shall of course be keeping you fully up YOU SURE LOOK GOOD TO MEPhyllis Hyman 42 to date on the goings-on in these spheres as well as ENDLESS LOVE Diana Ross & Lionel Ri chie 43 providing regular round-ups. The specialist charts are still available for your inspection on Bitz. FEATURES Feast your eyes also on The Pictures, a regular feature designed to keep you abreast of new bands HUMAN LEAGUE: Past, Present & Future 4/5/6 and new looks via the miracle of the black magic LINX: Tw o chaps with a spring in their stride 10/11 box. THE CREATURES: Siouxsie branches out 22/23 If you've got any questions about records and the people who make them consult Get Smart! and see HEEBEEGEEBEES: Making an impression 29 if Linda Duff can help you. Also making its debut is POLICE: Sting maps out the third phase 36/37/38 Nightsout. our new live music section, where. in addition to reporting on the best concerts, we'll be COLO!JR printing advance information on shows all over the nation. LINX 11 Then there's our new recruit, Barry. Barry, who ULTRAVOX 24/25 has no previous journalistic experience. will be ROLLING STONES '65 35 painting the town red eight days a week in order to STING 37 let you in on all the latest gossip and speculation. No doubt you'll bear with him as he finds his feet. (Down there, Barry.) That about clears it up. If you want to know how to THE PICTURES: Numan, Bananarama, BowWow get a complete set of free badges, consult page 32. If Wow, Mood Six & more 6/7 you want to know how important it is that your BITZ: Madness movie preview, Julian Cope, Doug newsagent reserves you a copy of the next issue, have a glance at the back page. Trend le Personal File, Higsons, Charts, Fan Clubs, If Y'>U want the very best in features. songwords, Books & Albums to be won & more 12/13/14 colour posters, news. reviews and prize PIECES: Charts, fan clubs, personal file, top ten & competitions, then tum the page and dive right in. more 14 The water's lovely. REVIEWS: Police, Genesis, Tom Tom Club, Hazel David Hepworth O'Connor, Saxon & more 18/19 GET SMART!: Your questions answered 20 HAS HE gone7 Funny bloke. that "Editor" First time he's deigned to drop in oou ~ on Page 3 Might have done a brt ol dusting 11 I'd known he was coming Bit LETTERS 30/31/32 na,ked about all his new !angled ideas. to be honest Asked me 10 collect up all last year's ideas, he did, then take ·em to lhe knackers So there 1was. BADGE TOKEN 32 dragging me way across The Human League feature. dropping armfuls of RSVP: Queue here for biro buddies 33 used headlines at every step Past The Pictures. where Gary Numan nicks an STAR TEASER 40 h,s old reviews to use for shooting practice Half vvay through The Creatures feature, when The HeeBeeGeeSees come sprinting by, warding off an irate CROSSWORD 41 S11ng with tile old Biro Buddies logo. Next thing I know, Linx and Uluavox are running oft with some dog-eared centrespreads claiming they·,e looking COMPETITION: Video recorder, tapes, Madness for some cheap wallpaper Wheta nerve! Grabbing the lastscraps of albums & books to be won 45 Independent Bitz, I tripped over a video on Page 45. got deafened by BARRY: Our ace reporter steps out 46 Oepeche Mode and then bumped into some buffoon called Barry who got h,s feet tangled up in O,sco You wait. They'll be after my Flannel Panel nut But NIGHTSOUT: The live music section - Depeche I won'I let 'em. Not me. mate Some things are sacred. guv. Mode plus hundreds of upcoming gigs 46/47 3 THE BIG LEAGUE 1977-progressive, poverty-striken, "hip". 1981 -accepted, bankable ... (and still "hip"!). Ian Birch charts the past and plots the present with The Human League. NEVER UNDERESTIMATE they bave just completed al seU-conlldence. Martin Rushent's Genetic Sound Let's flashback to May. when Studio outside Reading. "The Sound Of The Crowd" bad (Rushent seems to specialise at just hit the shops. Despite a ll the the moment in revitalising dodgy confusion, bickering and worry careers. He's recently worked that plagued the band. Philip wonders with Pete Shelley.) Oakey stood firm. The album is simply called "You haven't heaid the new "Dare". Philip quipped: "I like it &Ongs, have you?" he enquired of becau1e the Mekons used to have Ian Cranna in these very pages. a song called 'Dan Dare'. In fact, "I've heard the songs" he it was ripped oU hom a cover of continued, chest swelling, Vogue about two and a half years ago. They had a whole series of THE SWAGGER turned out to be covers which featured just one justified. After the huge success word like 'Succeu', 'Red' and of "Love Action" and with the 'Dare'. I shouldn't say that, equally commercial "Open Your should I?" Heart" waiting in the aiale.s. The The partnerebip between Human League now look set to Rushen! and The Human League take on the Muhammed Ali was clearly made in heaven. brigade of Adam, Sting and so Philip originally approached him forth. That's not bad going in five because he liked the hard and months. roomy sound he achieved on old The real testing black, 999 single•. however, is the album which Moat importantly, Rushen! had the musical ear and the technical knowhow that the group lacked. As all the parts were assembled on computer, this was obviously crucial. The band would first demo their songs in the Sheffield studio tha1 they share on a weekly basis with old sparring partners, British Electric Foundation. "We'd then take Martin the song," continued Philip, "which we'd played dufllyon the keyboard, out of time and with very bad syn-drums. Martin would programme them up on the computer and that would play It all." But what about those songs? As ,,, the past singles have indicated more and more, the new line-up ' j ' want to move away from cult approval towards commercial family favourites and to balance their experime.ntation with a senle of quality, singalong pop. It's not surprising that Philip should say: "We wanted an a lbum full of singles. like a Michael Jackson or Abba L.P. h ~ We·ve moved away from textures L--r: Sa1aane Baley, Adrian Wri9ht, Joana• CatheralJ, Philip Oakey , Jo CalJlt, Ian Barde n. to tunes. It's tunes every time." This is the artJ,ttalklng. Oakey 4 knowa lbat Varg1n Records wlll puah him as lhe dreamboa1 fa<e ol Th! Human League and, 001 ~ HUMAN LEAGUE surpnau,gly, he loves every momenl of ii. Bui 1here'o melhod behind lbe madneaa. He dhidea 1977-B1 ABEGINNERS GUIDE hia career into Its long~term and shorHerm poaajbibtiea The,~·• the ·1et'1 gel you in The Sun approach You·vegota Sheflield lea Marsh (born I Ill 1156, former French divorce IO they get your •x•wtfe poli1her, lake astrologer • campuler operator)• lalklng Thal'a great. Bui once Martyn Ware (born 1915,56 employed 01 computer you·ve heo;rd a.bout my wife operalor) form The o-• Dewghten, pedorming thal'a ii h's over, eapeclally 01 it the Doctor Who theme at a party. waao·t that interesting anyway. Changing lheu name to The rwhar-• they are Bui lhe really greal lhing Is lo be joined by Phil 0•ll•r (born Z 10.SS married. someone lib Sammr Cahn (rbe hosp11al porter • Christopher Lee fan). 0.1pite veteton American ly1'ici,t). o wning £165 saxophone. Oakey can·1 playanr WTillog aooga lbat p.ople will Instrument However he 1i.ng1 and writes worda on remember in 30 year, time ... 1he1r hrst effort, Being Boiled' The new songs came aboul In surnmer they ch.ange their name once again. thi1 lhrough collaboralion be1ween ttme to The Hu.man L••••• 1ta.k1n hom a Ki•fi dlUerent members of the group.