Cover DIV For . more . diversity Blondie & The Cure Special collage Exclusive interview with Marcella Special edition: “new wave” 7 DIVJanuary Contents 11 4 Exlusive interview with Marcella 7 More about Blondie; Debbie Harry 8 Collage of all popular New Wave bands The Cure will be headlining new 4 11 festivals in the summer of 2019 Interview with Marcella This is Marcella. She was 15 years old when she gotminvolved in the “New Wave” scene. “My grandfather couldn’t appreciate it. He thought my style was not appro- priate. He just couldn’t understand it.” But she didn’t care at all. She saw her New Wave period as temporary: “I wanted to be different, not a standard person”. When she was a kid, She was always Her outfit was also different from her an outsider. She was shy and found it peergroup. Always in black and hairs hard to be in the spotlighgts.She found up (with the help of lots of soap).Her everybody around her standard and make-up was also heavy and black and wanted to divertShe came attached to she wore big earrings.She got a lot of New Wave music by listening to the ra- comments on her looks: “ Everybody dio at night - at times where the played was always complaining on the way I less known music. At those years she looked. Too dark and a misfit.” could get to the library and serach for this music herself. She got home with “I remember how much effort it took albums from The Cure, U2, Simple to get my hairs straight up. We used Minds en Siouxsie and the Banshees. a block of handsoap to get it the right way”, she told us. In her eighteens she got a job at the school paper. Because she wasn’t allo- wed to publish everything she wanted, she also got involved with an alterna- Interview mam tive, illegal schoolpaper, the “Archibald”. Those who made this were anarchistic and were looking for the limits. Gra- dually she made contact with more alternative people. They set of against their parents and the more common people. This schoolpaper wasn’t appre- ciated but she never regretted being in- volved. “Our parents only were decent and neat, we didn’t want to become like 4 t h a t ”. 5 New New New New New New new new new new n Blondie Debbie Harry The new wave band Blon- In 1982, after several hits, walkmanwalkman die was formed in 1974 in the band split up due to the The band go together again New York. The band’s name fact that Debbie and her in 1998 with their album should be “Angel and the husband, Chris Stein wrote “No Exit”. This album got Snakes” at first, but wan- the songs and were therefor them in 14 countries on dering thrue the streets, the main factors behind the number1 with tthe song Debbie was called after. band and the other members “Maria”. After that they Andy Warhol was responsi- felt financialy mistreated. went on a world tour. ble for the looks of Debbie: Late 1982 Chris got a life In 2003 and 2004 they went blond hair, a white shirt and threathening disease and he on another world tour, with trousers. The members are quit as a musician. Debbie 3 all sold out concerts in Debbie Harry, Chris Stein put her solo carreer on hold the Netherlands. This tour on guitart, Clem Burke on to take care of her husband. was due to their album “The drums, Leigh Foxx bassand Chris eventually got better Curse Of Blondie”. Matt Katz-Bohen playing and Debbie could continue Blondie and Debbie Harry the piano. her musical carreer. are still active in the music scene. There is no new tour In Februari 1978 they had planned yet. their break through in Euro- pe with their album “Plastic Letters”. 6 7 DIVJanuary 9 s new wave ‘80 €2,99 The Cure The band around the excentric singer In 2012 the band played a gig on Pink- Robert Smith was formed in 1976 and got pop and Robert noticed a whole new and the name “The Easy Cure”. A few years younger public.After this they promised to latter, they changed it into The Cure . keep on playing. In June 1979 they brought out the number “Boys Don’t Cry” , which opened up the In 2018 they gave a concert in London, way to a modest cult status. In 1980 they because of the band’s 40th anniversery. delivered the long play record “Seventeen Last summer, Robert Smith anounced on Seconds” which included the internatio- Twitter they are planning a new tour. This nalhit song “A Forest”. After their song tour will mainly be played in Europe. The “Pornography” Robert put the band on will start on the 16th of March non-active. He made another few solo in Johannesburg, South records under the name The Cure. During Africa and the 80’s the band got together again and will end on they became the best known New Wave the 23rd band. of August in Paris, During the 90’s they were less prominent, France . but in 2004 they came with a new album simply called “The Cure”. In May 2008 another album was brought to the public - Rubik’s cube followed by a tour in June: “ Freakshow.” 10 11 DIV.