I ^ THE JAM LANDSCAPE 15 HIT LYRICS including CEREMONY IT'S A LOVE THING ATTENTION TO ME SPANDAU BALLET and TEARDROP EXPLODES in colour 1 I Vol. 3 No. 7 BONJOUR ET bienvenu, mes bijoux petits-pois. 'Ow are you, you naughty little things? Wait une second, there is a murrth in the room. Splat. Voila! The little blighter 'as frapp6 le bucket. Alors, sans further ado, let uss get down to ze bizness In 'and. You will 'ave noticed zat zere iss un burton badge attach^ to ze cuver (sacr6 bleu et Giscard d'Estaing!) But also we 'ave les features magnifiques about ze Classix Nouveaux, ze Landscape et ze Monsieur Foxton of ze Jem. Zat iss ne de mention pas les colour posters of Le Ballet Spandau et le Teardrop goes PouffI Also, tous les mots de chansons. Eh bien, ou est mon accordion? JUST A FEELING Bad Manners..... 2 EINSTEIN A GO-GO Landscape 8 (WE DON'T NEED THIS) FASCIST GROOVE THANG Heaven 17 8 UP THE HILL BACKWARDS David Bowie 9 JOHN I'M ONLY DANCING Polecats 17 ATTENTION TO ME Hie Nolans 18 SHEFFIELD GRINDER Tony Capstick 19 IT'S A LOVE THING The Whispers 22 on Magnet Records CEREMONY New Order 26 WHAT BECOMES OF THE BROKEN HEARTED Dave Stewart/Colin Blunstone 26 JUST A TAR Visage 33 GUILTY Classix Nouveaux 34 TWILIGHT ZONE Iron Maiden 36 NIGHT GAMES Graham Bonnet 36 MUSCLE BOUND Spandau Ballet 43 It's been a week now since you went away LANDSCAPE: Feature 4/5/6 I hope that you have gone to stay It's not that I don't like you, you're alright BRUCE FOXTON: Feature 14/15/16 i just like to run my IHe SPANDAU BALLET: Colour Poster 24/25 K's just a feeling CLASSIX NOUVEAUX: Feature 34/35 iMy fiat was nice and tidy, now it's not TEARDROP EXPLODES: Colour Poster 44 I fust don't seem to care a iot i feel so good, I really feel at home To sit in a mess all on my own CROSSWORD 10 It's just a feeling BITZ 11/12/13 Chorus INDEPENDENT BITZ 20/21 Just a feeling (just a feeling), just a feeling (Just a feeling) DISCO 22 Just a feeling (just a feeling), just a feeling Just a feeling (just a feeling), just a feeling (Just a feeling) VIDEO GAME/P.I.L COMPETITION 23 Just a feeling (just a feeling), just a feeling STAR TEASER 27 Just a feeling REVIEWS 28/29 It's always a problem when I talk to you FACT IS SPECIAL 30 You make it so hard to get through You thought that I should get a steady job BIRO BUDDIES 37 You couldn't see I'm Just a yob CARTOON 37 I'm just a skin age yob BADGE OFFER 39 Repeat chorus to fade LETTERS 39/40 GIGZ Words and music by Bad Manners 42 Reproduced by permission Magnet Music Ltd. Specisl thanks this iMae to Jo Dalo (dotign). STEVE TAYLOR PUTS YOU IN THE PICTURE UESTION NUMBER one — synthesiser, of course — but do it as enthusiastically and as for twelve hours about what he'd did you see the video? A "Einstein" didn't have a professionally as possible. But seen. It was, he declares, "an imad scientist and a pied trombone part so his head gets to it's not very easy to think about incredible realisation of the piper, a surreal housewife in a sing. new ideas or new directions for a possibilities of the kind of Cubist living room, a hamster in a Finally there's the pied piper band when you're working that technology we could afford to didn't wheel and a box with a head that himself, John Walters, who has hard. invest in." The lyricon sang "Einstein A Go-Go" ^— moved from saxophone and flute "We went through a great present any great challenge as it Landscape's debut on Top Of The to their electronic cousin — the period of about eighteen months could be carted around and Pops, a visual version of their hit lyricon. He's also become a dab from hardly getting anyone along slipped into the band like any single. hand at composing by computer. to our shows to packing out the new instrument. Question number two — who John began playing in Landscape regular ones. That did us a lot of But the micro-composer in the are these guys? Somewhere in when still at music school and good musically and got our name offered new possibilities the midst of the mayhem says his background is all to do known." way the band put together new depicted on that short film, five with the band. Even at this early stage, songs. Instead of throwing fascination with around basic compositions from oddly di-essed men could be seen , Landscape had a / playing instruments. Well, sort IN SPITE of such bewilderingly the possibilities of distorting and each member at rehearsals, it possible for one person of. diverse backgrounds and musical changing the sound of was now One sang and bashed away at a experiences. Landscape has been conventional instruments with to write a whole piece of music, drumkit which appeared to be the major project of all these electronic devices^ Both the horn drums and all. The composer five years. stage with would store all the lines and then ^ made from human heads — musicians for the last players used to go on that's Richard Burgess who, apart They're all adamant — as they little black boxes strapped to their play them back through a from making a name for himself always have been — that it's a belts and wired up to synthesiser. play the as Spandau Ballet's producer, lifelong commitment. impressive-looking chunks of Yet John likes to down has worked on countless Three years ago Landscape hardware on the floor. effects of his discoveries. with sessions as a freelance drummer. were being called a jazz-rock They also produced one of the "Landscape provided me he says. He also helped to develop the outfit. They were playing pubs best stage sounds I've ever a very strong direction," upheavals electronic drumkit featured in the and clubs on a well-worn circuit heard, partly thanks to a But there were other long time video. in London and, although they powerfully clear PA which they'd going on. They took a deal with RCA, The blond guy With the really didn't fit in anywhere, they won in a competition for to sort out their is handled through their futuristic-looking double bass is looked normal by their current promising new bands. Even if which Andy Pask. He comes from a very standards. There were no vocal you didn't particularly like their own companies. musical family and sang in the numbers, just a huge number of music, the sheer style of the "We don't just want to make a school choir before studying bass high-octane instru mentals that band's presentation — especially couple of records and and cello at the Royal Academy sounded like the product of a — at venues normally dedicated to disappear," John explains. of Music in London. miniaturised — and electrified scratchy rock'n'roll — still "Having a degree of control is The one who really plays jazz orchestra with a funk rhythm knocked you for six. very important." keyboards but appeared on your section. The record company tie-up screens clutching the magnified Unconventional, but a success. BUT BENEATH this smoothly sorted out. Landscape made their neck of a most peculiar Landscape packed out regular organised surface, a new style first album (simply called instrument is Christopher weekly venues like The Stapleton and direction were bubbling "Landscape") which John says Heaton, who has played in North London and got healthy away. they're not completely happy everything from serious sales for their two independent "The particular turning point about. avant-garde music to pop EPs on their own Event Horizon for me," says John Walters, "We were actually doing gigs concerts in Germany. label. "came on a bright summer day in in between sessions on the touring '78 The singing head turns out to Then followed a year of August when I went to an record, so it became a record of be Peter Thorns, who found his colleges, clubs and arts centres instrument trade fair and saw two what we were playing live at the Landscape: (left to right): way to this country via Hong all over the country before they things that I'd been hearing about time. We've since realised that John Walters, Richard Kong and a succession of sigtied with RCA and stopped for months — the lyricon and the this wasn't a good way tp make Burgess, Peter Thorns, live work last March. John "groovy horn sections" in soul < doing micro-composer." an album." Christopher Heaton and Andy Walters explains what happened: Family and friends, John says, Nor were the results liAproved and salsa bands. Usually he plays Pask. trombone — through a "With gigs night after night you tell him that he talked non-stop Incredibly embarrassing pic of Landscape four years ago playing at an open air festival in North London. Just love that futurist presentation! ^^ from previous page RCA were very worried, John really feel that the grubby household name. With his by the guidance of mainstream recalls, "because they liked our mentality of rock is theories of relativity he'd pop producer Greg Walsh.