‘An Audience with Rusty Egan’ takes place on Wednesday 6th December 2017 at PizzaExpress Live in Holborn, not far from the location of The Blitz Club.
Hosted by The Electricity Club’s Chi Ming Lai, Rusty Egan will be sharing private moments from his career and discussing songs from his long career as a "Pioneer - From Punk to New Romantic" in a visual talk show. Likely to be a very lively evening of forthright chat, he also will be accepting questions from the audience. More Inside ›
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MIDGE URE needs no introduction as one of the UK’s most highly regarded songwriters and musicians. Having become fascinated by KRAFTWERK when they hit the UK charts with ‘Autobahn’ in 1975, he purchased his first synth, a Yamaha CS50 in 1977.
Best known for his involvement in ULTRAVOX and VISAGE, The Electricity Club looks back at MIDGE URE’s great adventure in electronic music via this twenty track Beginner’s Guide, with a restriction of one track per album / project… More Inside ›
Tony Hadley is best known the lead singer of SPANDAU BALLET. Hadley has gone full circle and returns to his days at The Blitz Club by contributing vocals to ‘Lonely Highway’, a track on Rusty Egan’s debut solo album ‘Welcome To The Dancefloor’.
Co-written by Chris Payne who also co-wrote VISAGE’s ‘Fade to Grey’, ‘Lonely Highway’ is possibly Hadley’s most overtly synthpop outing since ‘To Cut A Long Story Short’ back in 1980. Tony Hadley kindly chatted to TEC about this new collaboration. More Inside ›
After many years of trials and tribulations, Rusty Egan finally presents ‘Welcome To The Dancefloor’. It’s a collection of thirteen songs that explore a varied range of topics from the euphoria of clubland to the celebration of musical heroes to personal bereavement.
Indeed, several of the songs started off as recordings for the rebooted VISAGE. Chris Payne who co-wrote ‘Fade To Grey’ had submitted several compositions... More Inside ›
A conceptual opus based around George Orwell’s ‘1984’ but looking at the spectre of ‘Big Brother’ five years on, TAYLOR SWIFT’s ‘1989’ sold over a million physical copies during its first week in the US.
One track that did not fit in with the ‘1989’ concept was deluxe bonus track ‘New Romantics’. But the now New York based pop princess’ celebration of the most colourful of youth movements in the 20th Century has now been released as a single. More Inside ›
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