Living with a boy (Free subscription) | 18/08/2009
The boyfriend, me and the mother spent the weekend down in Ashby visiting my sister and her family. We had a date on the Friday evening with Calke Abbey where my sister had got us all tickets to the Back to the 80s concert that's been doing the rounds over the past few months. It was actually in Hull in East Park for its first date but I never heard about it. I was a little apprhensive, although technically...
Mets Guy in Michigan (Free subscription) | 28/06/2009
I think about the 1980s and see milestones and adventures. I see graduations from high school and two colleges. Marriage and a Mets championship. A real world job and an apartment. My life probably changed more in that decade than it will in any other. So the soundtrack for that transition from teen to adult will always be special. Some people might hear Human League and Flock of Seagulls and the Cars...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
ABC star MARTIN FRY is considering turning the 80s pop act's hits into a new stage musical - because he thinks the tunes would be perfect for "a bittersweet love...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
ABC star MARTIN FRY and GO WEST's RICHARD DRUMMIE are teaming up to trek through Namibia next year (10) in an effort to raise awareness and cash for African...
KulPop (Free subscription) | 06/06/2009
VARIOUS BITS AND PIECES: Remember the band "Red Box" (Lean On Me, Heart Of The Sun, For America)? Well they're back and have a new album titled "Plenty" that is due out this year. Simon Toulson-Clarke and the band have been playing a few small pub gigs in the U.K. and have a brand new website up and running. Their first album "The Circle & The Square" was reissued...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
'It was underneath a wig shop in Brick Lane," says Martin Fry, reminiscing about the insalubrious location of Sarm East studios where, in 1982, ABC recorded the luxuriant Lexicon of Love, one of the greatest pop albums ever.
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Either Google isn't working or no-one has reviewed ABC's concert on Wednesday night, so I'm going to rise to the challenge, split some infinitives and mangle some grammar. Martin Fry has joined the 'play your classic album in its entirety' bandwagon, and why not? 'The Lexicon of Love' was, and remains, a towering achievement. ABC's hugely ambitious first album brought strings, emotion, glamour and...
Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
"THIS is a show that we would have never put on in Sheffield in 1981, because we were competing with each other too much," explains Martin Fry, frontman of ABC, of the Sheffield Steel City tour, which sees his new romantics joining the Human League and Heaven 17.
Popdose (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
When music journalist Martin Fry popped ’round a practice by the band Vice Versa in Sheffield, England, in 1980, it’s unlikely that he had any idea that he was embarking upon a journey that would, in 28 years time, find him playing dates alongside Belinda Carlisle, The Human League, Naked Eyes, and A Flock of [...]
Art @ 20six.co.uk (Free subscription) | 22/08/2007
Pop will forgive anything these days. It's a second chance saloon allowing any crowd of opportunists to get back together for another shot at the big time, and the big time gets shot. Now snowballing out of control, with barely a band of...
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