[quote][i]Originally posted by SwampThing[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by DSR[/i]
...around 1988...MANILA during the NEW WAVE HEYDAYS. [;)]
[/quote] Oh geez, I give up. LOL! They were mostly played on "College Rock" stations here in the US.
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There's no such thing as "college radio" in the Philippines, if that'll help clear any misunderstandings about genre definitions between countries. In America, New Wave was considered dead by 1984-1985 because many of the "Rock of the '80s" formats had folded by then and only college radio continued to program alternative music. What was relegated to low-watt campus stations here -- Lloyd Cole & the Commotions, the Go-Betweens, the Woodentops, the Mighty Lemon Drops, the House of Love, the Chameleons, etc -- was played on New Wave radio stations in the Philippines with universal staples the Cure and Depeche Mode. It's all the same to me, all those acts coming from post-punk and shared indie affiliations, anti-commercial stands, and creative inspirations. O Positive would've fit right in.
Michael Sutton
CEO/Sutton Records
http://www.suttonrecords.com