Showing posts with label B-Movie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label B-Movie. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

b-Movie Return with New EP 'Repetition'

After last year's return with the 'Repetition' EP, b-Movie are back for another one, and this time, with the remix version of the same EP. Both the original and the remix EP include three tracks, the title tracks plus "Somewhere Cold" and "Stalingrad" which are in the tone of the b-Movie classic sound aesthetics. The original EP was released in November 12th 2018 by Loki Records, while the remix version was issued on February 10th.










Thursday, September 19, 2013

B-Movie's New Releases Announced

B-Movie are back! Earlier this year the band has announced the release of an EP as well as the brand new album. Both releases were released during the summer and feature brand new material. The EP is entitled 'Distant Skies' while the album with new material is called 'The Age of Illusion'. The album features new material, recorded by the original line up and it is the first release since 'Forever Running' (1985). The band will also embark on tour to promote new releases. 

More news via B-Movie official.
http://www.b-movie.co.uk/

Saturday, May 26, 2012

B-Movie Return with Echoes EP

B-Movie are back with a new single EP! This is their first single in thirty years and includes the tracks "So far Away", "Echoes" and "For the Dreamers". The songs are available on  itunes but you can also listen to them on http://soundcloud.com/b-movie/sets/echoes-e-p. B-Movie are also about to embark on a Pledge campaign www.pledgemusic.com to raise funds to record a new album. The singer Steve Hovington has written ten songs for a solo album, tentatively entitled 51 to be recorded this summer. 

More info:
www.b-movie.co.uk
  

Friday, March 5, 2010

B-Movie's 30 Year Anniversary Tour

The British synth-pop group b-Movie have announced their 30 Year Anniversary Tour. London is confirmed among the live dates and they will also play two venues in Spain, Barcelona on April 16, 2010 and Madrid on April 17, 2010. Check out the last.fm and other pages for more details.

b-Movie Live
http://www.b-movie.co.uk/bmovie/bmovie/trailers.html
www.myspace.com/bmovieuk

Friday, August 8, 2008

B- Movie

B-Movie formed in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire during 1978 from the ashes of local punk band The Aborted. The band consisted of Steve Hovington (vocals/bass), Paul Statham (guitar) & Graham Boffey (drums). They quickly changed their name to B-Movie following Steve's discovery in an art book of the Andy Warhol painting of the same name.

After they recorded the first four songs, they used to play the first demo gigs including The Cornhill Vaults in Lincoln where they played several times. In order to develop their sound they recruited the keyboard player Rick Holiday. This brought the whole new dimension to their sound and they moved form three minutes New wave songs to much more grander outfits. B-Movie released their first EP, 'The Take Three EP' on July 1980 which also included the first ever recording “Remembrance Day”. The next chapter in B-Movie history was marked through the meeting with Stevo, the local DJ who would eventually sign B-Movie to his own record label 'Some Bizzare'.There was also a plan for a compilation album which would take the same name.Twelve acts were assembled and they each sent in one track. The B-Movie offering was a newly recorded song called “Moles” which had become a live favorite. It was by far the rockiest track on the album and had very little in common with the other acts except maybe a willingness to experiment. The Some Bizarre Album was scheduled for release in February 1981 and would feature the vinyl debuts of Depeche Mode, The The, Soft Cell & Blancmange. All of these acts went on to considerable success so the album could be viewed as the musical equivalent of the Dead Sea Scrolls!

In 1981 they had their biggest UK commercial success when their single “Remembrance Day” reached 61 in the UK charts narrowly missing out on a crucial Top Of The Pops TV appearance. The single was receiving unanimously good reviews but was being ignored by daytime radio - it seemed that the record company did not have a strategy to get the record into the upper reaches of the chart. The follow up single 'Marilyn Dreams' failed to chart. In 1982 they released "Nowhere Girl" which made the Top 10 in many European countries and reached 68 in the United Kingdom, but there was no follow up and no sign of an album.

Keyboard player Rick Holliday left in 1983 to form Six Sed Red with Soft Cell associate Cindy Ecstasy. The rest of the band re-surfaced in 1984 with the single “A letter From Afar” produced by John "Jellybean" Benitez but this failed to chart. Towards the end of 1985 they finally released an album with Sire Records called 'Forever Running' containing re-recorded versions of the two hits but both it and the single "Switch On Switch Off" were flops despite a tour to promote them.

The band broke up soon after. The members of B-Movie were involved in different solo projects more or less successful and after a long hiatus, in March, 2006 B-Movie performed at the club The Metro in London. The videos of these live performances were already featured in this blog.

Friday, March 14, 2008

B-Movie's April Gig

Great news for all B-Movie fans as the band will play live gig on April 12th at the Metro 19-23 Oxford Street in London. Videos from their last gig, held in 2007 were already posted here earlier.

More info:
http://www.blowupmetro.com


Tuesday, January 8, 2008

B-Movie's Reunion Gig

The original line up of B-Movie met last year for a fantastic reunion gig. The gig was held on 11th November at the Social in Nottingham. Here are two videos from this gig taken from Youtube. Big thanks to JoBeaufoix!

Remembrance Day


Nowhere Girl

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Instant Hit: B-Movie- Remembrance Day

"Remembrance Day" is one of b-Movie's biggest hits which was released twice during the 80's decade. The first release was in 1981 on DERAM label with "Institution Walls" as the B-side. The second release followed six years later on Wax records with "Marilyn Dreams" as a B-side track. The song was also featured on Flexi Pop's split release with Soft Cell's song "Metro MRX".


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