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Frank Tovey MP3 albums featuring Alison Moyet
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| | Best Of Fad Gadget CDs (2001) (Import) United Kingdom
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In 2001, when just about any band who had released their records during the post-punk explosion was having their records re-released, when bands like the Human League were releasing new records that revitalized their original sound, and when compilations released ...
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 Frank Tovey MP3 Songs
Popular or famous Frank Tovey songs: Ricky's Hand, Back to Nature, Collapsing New People, Lady Shave, Love Parasite, Swallow It, 4m. More music songs Fireside Favourite, Handshake, I Discover Love, Insecticide, Life on the Line, Make Room, One Man's Meat, Sleep, Box. More music songs For Whom The Bells Toll, Immobilise, King of the Flies, Saturday Night Special.
Frank Tovey Biography
Ostensibly the solo project of London-born vocalist and synth player Frank Tovey, Fad Gadget enjoyed cult success throughout the `80s, first as part of the U.K. post-punk boom, later as progenitors of the "darkwave" of synth-pop. In the late-`70s, Tovey plied his college training in performance art toward wildly unpredictable stage shows involving self-mutilation and dark, unnerving lyrical themes. He began experimenting with sound collages as soundtracks for his performances, eventually making forays into drum machine and synth-based songwriting. Signing to Daniel Miller's fledgling Mute label in 1979, Tovey released four albums as Fad Gadget, several solo albums, and collaborations with underground luminaries such as Boyd Rice and Einsturzende Neubauten. By the `90s, Tovey's solo activities were winding down just as he began exploring traditional acoustic songwriting and standards. In 2001, Tovey resurrected the Fad Gadget moniker to support his former label mates, Depeche Mode, on their EXCITER tour. The group's planned return to recording and performance was cruelly curtailed by Tovey's death from heart failure in April of 2002.
Key Personnel
| Member Name | Worked With | | Robert Gotobed | Wire | | Eric Radcliffe | Lines | | John Fryer | This Mortal Coil, Lacrimas Profundere, Lines, Paradise Lost, Sister Machine Gun, Love And Rockets | | Daryl Williams | Walter Hawkins, Daryl Williams Trio, Bill Gaither, Tramaine Hawkins, Bryan Wilson | | David Rogers | American Head Charge, Jason Robert Brown, Aengus Finnan, Jan Gelberman, Barry Manilow, Kristopher McDowell, Ernest Tubb | | Rowland Howard | Birthday Party, Barry Adamson, Boys Next Door, Nick Cave, Einsturzende Neubauten, Jeremy Gluck, Nikki Sudden | | Nick Cash | 999 | | Frank Tovey | | David Simmonds | S.I. Futures | | Simmon Gardener | Spear Of Destiny | | Anne Clift | | Eddie Carnihan | | Pete Balmer |
Contemporaries
Depeche Mode, Einstürzende Neubauten, Cabaret Voltaire, Soft Cell, Human League, Wire, Suicide, Magazine, Yazoo, Alison Moyet, The Art of Noise, Coil, The Associates, D.A.F., Virgin Prunes, Minny Pops, Thomas Leer, The Normal
Followers
Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, Goldfrapp, Miss Kittin, Add N to (X), Nitzer Ebb
Influences
David Bowie, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Cabaret Voltaire, Marc Bolan, Suicide, Throbbing Gristle, Neu!
More Music Artists
At All Cost, Formula V, Phil Norman
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