New Wave Outpost Forum

While not quite New Wave, it's a very thin line between the two.
I used to love the NuRo look/style and music, Visage, Duran and Spandau. I think I have Hunted High and Low for every possible connection, musicly and otherwise about this scene. While I am not obsessed anymore, it's still fun to reminisce.

- allen

Many prominent New Wavers like Adam Ant went on to TOTP status after adopting a boldly adventurous, swashbuckling sound and image. That sort of androgyny perpetuated by Bowie, Bolan, and others in the mid seventies reemerged almost as a moody 'new wave' o

Lady Laz,
I totally agree. I also thought the band's image/ look was of MAJOR importance to me and often got me to like the band. nowadays, that sounds kind of juvenile, but what the heck--we were kids back then, eh ? but back in the New Wave heyday, i

It still looms very large in my imagination and gets me through many weary, dull days. I'm only 21, but I don't see myself changing my ways. [:D]

Take a look at this new book, I guess the first about NR movement. Great, great pics. And quite good info also. I got it, and I'm enjoying it very much. It was nice to see listed a playlist from Rusty Egan at the Blitz. Not that different than today's min

Wow,
I've been busy and haven't been able to check these boards again. Sorry about that.

LadyLaz - I agree totally that a band's look and image is so important. It gives youngersters and not so young (sters) an image to follow and to be a part of. It

Allen, I don't feel offende at all. I did not write the book nor did the artwork [:D]

But let me say I thought the same about the cover first I saw it... but I had the book in hands and could open it. Do as you want, but let me say that despite of the

you guys MUST check out:

www.geocities.com/theblitzkids

this amazing webiste really shows lots of pix--the bands, the players, the fans, the followers....i like how they have a "wide" definition. when you check out the fans/ followers section, you'

I remember the good old days when you could tell what a band would sound like by the way they dressed and how the artwork was on the record sleeves.

I was just on the shy side of being legal when the New Romantic thing was going on so I never got to an

I think people look silly now with their anorexic mid-riff shirts and cro-magnon baggy trousers. I miss seeing people in the media with a real sense of style and individuality.

Lady, what I miss is to see this people dressing in style... in the street. As some New Romantics did. And as I did when I was a teen NR. Today we all dress the same, in a wide range that allows us some personality but never let us out of the uniformizati

KY - I loved that site! Wow! Those picks of Hayzee were great! I used to love them. I know they only had like one or two good songs, but I loved their image! They were just fun to look at!

LadyLaz - I miss that too! although I don't think everyone I s

OK,
So, noone has posted to this in a while. I have a question. When you think of NuRo, what is the first song that pops into your mind? For me, it's Planet Earth, hehe. Second would be The Quiet Life by Japan, or To Cut a Long Story Short by Spandau Bal

I tend to think of Prince Charming or Just Like Heaven. [:D]

"the freeze" - Spandau Ballet
"planet earth" - Duran
"fade to grey" - Visage
to cut a long story short" - Spandau
"quiet life" - Japan

and early Classix Nouveaux,
all good stuff. you could practically hear the leather pants rubbing together and s