New Wave Outpost Forum

One band you don’t see much of on the net is JoBoxers. With at least a couple of lively tunes “Boxerbeat” and “Just Got Lucky”, surely they deserve some mention. Hey, especially if Haysi Fantaysee gets discussed – “Shiny Shiny” must be the worst record I ever bought. I remember first hearing/seeing JoBoxers on a weekly video show broadcast on a PBS station out of Detroit (pre-MTV/MuchMusic days – can you imagine?).

There is a lot of discussion on this site about when New Wave ended. When the JoBoxers album finally reached us in backwater Canada, I’m sure it was late 1983. Although JoBoxers had their own sound, I remember thinking at the time the whole street urchin boots and hats thing they had going on was so gimmicky it actually took away from the music. Off the top of my head there weren’t many fresh sounding new wave bands after this.

Anyway, I’m curious. Can any of you Brits out there recall, back in the day, were JoBoxers considered hip? Or was it all just shite?

At the time of their success they appeared on the cover of Smash Hits.

Having bought the best of (basically 1st LP + nucleus of second), it becomes apparent that releasing four singles from the first record was far too many and under the pressure the band collapsed.

If you can find it cheap then it's worth having.

So they had the Little Rascals/ Bowery Boys look going for them. Seems to still carry on in some ways, in my opinion.

On the UK version of the vinyl LP, "Like Gangbusters", there was a fold out of photos attached to the cover. Another gimmick, and one hard not to ruin unless you kept the album in a plastic sleeve.

For that matter, you never hear very much about the band Roman Holliday either. I think that they are comparable to Joboxers as they had a similar amount of hits, were all male, and had a unique fashion perspective.

[quote][i]Originally posted by dcs84[/i]
<br>For that matter, you never hear very much about the band Roman Holliday either. I think that they are comparable to Joboxers as they had a similar amount of hits, were all male, and had a unique fashion perspective.
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They may have had a similar fashion sense and had a similar band line up (e.g a fusion of big band/early rock and roll [the horn section] with NW, etc) but Roman Holliday were far superior, IMO. Cookin on the Roof is a great album and demonstrates some outstanding musicianship.