Depeche Mode – The Making Of A Basildon Supergroup
By Tom King ~ When music journalist Simon Spence was a teenager in the eighties, he nursed an embarrassing secret. There was this band from Basildon, and they were one of his favourites. He kept…
Basic Live & Unsigned
Basic are an electronic duo from Basildon, Essex. Since getting together they have written over 30 tracks and have done covers with their own personal touch. They have played a few venues within the Essex…
Depeche Mode Documentary Screening Across The UK On Tuesday December 1st
‘The Posters Came From The Walls’ is a recently released film about Depeche Mode fans which will be showing simultaneously in several cinemas throughout the UK on Tuesday Dec 1st. For those of you in…
Watch BBC Documentary Synth Britannia Online Now
Documentary following a generation of post-punk musicians who took the synthesiser from the experimental fringes to the centre of the pop stage. In the late 1970s, small pockets of electronic artists including the Human League,…
Synth Britannia On BBC Four, October 16th
In the late seventies small pockets of electronic artists such as The Human League, Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle were inspired by Kraftwerk and J G Ballard to dream of the sound of the future…
