24 Aug '07 - 165 W - + 15 - 24 The 1980s Are Back Again

(or: The Times They Are A-Changin’...?)

“They may have been acceptable in the Eighties, but do the likes of Bananarama, Curiosity Killed the Cat, Howard Jones and the Human League pass muster with the pop pickers of today?”

asks The Times newspaper.

In an article all about the forthcoming ’80s-themed Retrofest concert (in which, perversely, none of the above performers will appear), The Times goes all nostalgic about the ‘80s music scene. But it ain’t all nostalgia...

And the Eighties revival isn’t all retro festivals. Alongside the main-stream marketing of nostalgia there’s a growing underground club scene that harks back to the age of gender-benders and electric dreams in more creative ways. Clubs such as Duckie, Horse Meat Disco and Pop-starz have been playing Eighties records for years, while others – Foreign, Nag Nag Nag and Trailer Trash – have spawned a new generation of club kids not unlike the Blitz kids of the early Eighties.

Read the article

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