More new wave than punk, sounded properly tight: the drums were crisp and sharp, the bass deep and full. It turned out Oakey was a bit of fan. Martin Rushent, meanwhile, had been busy setting up Genetic Studios at his newly acquired Wood Cottage home in Streatley.
The original studio was in this ramshackle bungalow down the hill from where the main studio was being built. Burden came via Graph, a Sheffield band who had appeared on a Fast Product compilation. Callis was hired for his songwriting expertise, but he was essentially a punk guitarist masquerading as a glam rocker, and his knowledge of keyboards was patchy at best.
But when he first arrived in Sheffield, the new boy was helped out by an unlikely ally. Once they had a few songs demo-ed, the band would decamp from Monumental to Genetic, where Martin Rushent and Dave Allen set about meticulously recreating the tracks.
With Rushent and the girls on board, The Human League finally had pop potency. They were wonderfully down to earth and excited about the whole thing. You can imagine. As a single, it would be Number One on both sides of the Atlantic and a Top 10 hit in a dozen more countries, selling over 2. Adrian had this little book of instructions about how to turn all the equipment on and how to work the studio. This is in the pre-shuffle era, when people would put a record on and listen to the whole thing from start to finish.
As such, artists thought hard about the sequence of tracks. It was important. Depends who you talk to. For all I know, he was well aware it was a big hit and he was just testing to see if everybody else knew. Phil got this trials bike, the girls got expensive faux fur coats, Adrian got a state-of-the-art Nikon camera. Sadly, Martin Rushent died last year. His legacy is not only the work he completed during his time, but one unfinished project.
For as long as Dare has been around, there have been stories of lost out-takes and alternative versions. Neither were completed to any standard, though. The plan is for the first, last and only time, one take, Love And Dancing Live. All we have to do is see that his final production happens. It promises to be a fitting tribute to Martin Rushent and to those who came together over the summer of to make that original, astonishing record.
It used to shock him the amount of attention it got, although he would never let on. So what was it about Dare? Everyone says the same thing.
It was about the right bunch of people, in the right place, at the right time. Nothing more complicated than that. Which I love. The Human League had all of those things. That took 10 minutes. It was relaxation. In the end, the medley was called Bang Your Head and released as a single on Island. The band was called Terrible Lizard. Andy Peebles called it the worst record ever made when he played it on his lunchtime [Radio 1] show.
I was very proud. You might just hear a couple of songs from Dare. Runs Palawan Press, a publishing house specialising in ultra-exclusive, limited edition titles. Selling for hundreds of pounds a pop, many of the beautifully crafted titles are histories of classic cars, such as Aston Martin, Mercedes and Ferrari.
He recently bought the mixing desk that legendary German producer Conny Plank used to record Kraftwerk. Franz Ferdinand are currently using the desk for their new album. Was playing with the reformed Rezillos until recently and is now working with singer Robert King, who was the frontman of Edinburgh long-lost post-punk band The Scars.
Has started writing his memories, which should be well worth a read. She relocated the US in the late 90s, where she works as an interior designer. It was about setting trends in music, look, and party. It was a good bye to disco and punk, and hello to electro pop. It cemented a new wave that lasted a few more years until it became a superfluous commercial act. I remember the first time I heard Open Your Heart.
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