Richard Hawley

Richard, did you have any interest in the Sheffield bands ABC/Human League or Cabaret Voltaire from the early 80's.

As pop albums go ABC's "Lexicon of Love" & The Human League's "Dare" are great pop albums and hard to beat from that era. The Human League single "Being Boiled" is also a great single.

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Richard Hawley Rocks

ABC wernt they those guys in gold lame suits .... oh come on Heaven 17 were much better ! ! !

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Whos gonna shoe your pretty little feet

Sorry I shouldnt really say that about ABC.... its a good album

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Whos gonna shoe your pretty little feet

ABC have got a new single out soon, its being played pretty heavily on Radio 2 at the minute and sounds like they have completely disregarded 1986 - 2008. But in a really good way. Its a definite guilty pleasure of mine just now. And Martin Fry is a big Man U fan which always helps in my book. The less said about advertising crappy Citroens back in '89 the better though...

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Thirty? I didn't think you'd make it to Thursday!

treebound story(my first band i was in)used to rehearse at western works beneath cabaret voltaire Richard Kirk is a pal and i loved that band they were lightyears ahead of their time,The Human League were good,not keen on much else,Steve Singleton from ABC is a lifelong friend having been a manager of mine for a long while,ABC was a bit too poppy for me but they were a good band i struggled in the 80's to be honest with music,i hated the new romantic bollocks with a passion,false shite,i loved John Peel that kept me sane along with all my old records that i still love.There were a lot of boss bands from sheff at that time that never got the recogniton they more than deserved,Clock DVA and Artery being two that immediatley spring to mind.

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now,then!

Oh that was a good honest answer...one thing tho Mr Hawley could you just tell SS to stop moaning like a women about how much pain hes in and he says hes got some clothes for you xxx

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Whos gonna shoe your pretty little feet

ah come on the poor guy has just had a savage Op...he's one of the good guys

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now,then!

Dear Mr Hawley...Im sorry about that... i will give him lots of sympathy now... but i did tell him to rest and he didnt take my advice and i do know what it feels like x

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I agree there.................I have just bought an Artery compilation CD and its really good.............

I think you may have 'misinterpreted' women's pain threshold ... and owe more than half the world's population an apology

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In every town I'll ever go

If you're referring to 'Lexicon Of Love', I agree wholeheartedly. However, 'Beauty Stab' is, AFAIC, the single most unfairly ignored record of the 80's, and I got to tell that to Martin Fry himself (an absolute sweetheart, BTW).

Richard: Didn't Steven Singleton leave ABC because the other two weren't willing to tour behind that album?

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"I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit."--Mel Brooks.

i don't know mate he told me years ago but i forget the details and does it matter in the long run?I think that album is the better of the two

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now,then!

I agree Bloodshift, I met Martin Fry a number of years back after an ABC show in Cork and he was an absolute gentleman, he signed evrything put in front of him and also stood for photos. I also had a great conversation with him about the late great Billy Mackenzie.

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Richard Hawley Rocks

OK I APOLOGISE TO WOMEN EVERYWHERE.....x

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Whos gonna shoe your pretty little feet

Liked the Comsat Angels early stuff, 'Fiction' and '7 Day Weekend' etc...