NEWS WAVE - The Book of Love! "We can be heroes" is the right present for Christmas...

This Friday 4th November, Graham Smith and Chris Sullivan will be hosting an evening soirée geared around the forthcoming book ‘We Can Be Heroes’ at The Society Club in Soho. I’ll have polished up my frames and be exhibiting a few prints and Chris will be telling his ribald tales:

The Society Club
12 Ingestre Place, on the corner of Silver Place, which is off Lexington Street, Soho, W1F OJF.
Prints will be on sale.
It’s early 7-10pm

Afterwards Chris will be Djing classic club tunes from 1976 – 84 at the The Aviary Bar – 17 Little Portland Street, Oxford Circus, London W1W 8BW from 10 till 3:00am (http://www.theaviarybar.com/). Both venues are free to get into – so dig out your espadrilles and book yourself a baby sitter now!!!!

"We Can Be Heroes" is only available from www.unbound.co.uk/books/we-can-be-heroes

Graham was an essential cog in Spandau Ballet’s early pioneering days. He was the band’s original graphic designer and was responsible for the initial performance posters and record sleeve designs. He also happened to capture those days on camera. And now 30 years later he is producing his first photographic book of those heady days.

Chris Sullivan has written a brilliant and hilarious main text and Robert Elms has contributed an introduction. Our very own Gary Kemp has written a foreword along with Boy George and Steve Strange.

NEWS WAVE - Gli Spandau Ballet sono nati in un cesso di Berlino!

Gary and Martin Kemp recently took part in a photo shoot for a feature in the Italian version of Vogue. Below is basic translation of the piece that can also be viewed by clicking here* (please note, the page is in Italian). “We began when we were at school”, explains the leader of Spandau Ballet Gary Kemp, “as a post punk band, and we didn’t find our real path until ’79-‘80, when we started going to the Blitz. Malcolm McLaren was a great source of inspiration for me, but I wanted to sell a lot of records like my heroes. I come from a working class background and I wanted to become famous”. Authors of synth pop, then of more loved funk and therefore of powerful melodic genre ballads, they found the idea for their name written in a toilet in Berlin. They were the first London band (together with the Kemp brothers also Tony Hadley, Steve Norman and John Keeble) to embrace the pop ethic of the decade that was just beginning.

Notes for the clothing Martin and Gary were wearing – For Martin Kemp. Jacket and pants, Lanvin; cardigan Alexander McQueen; T-shirt Intimissimi. For Gary Kemp. Suit Lanvin; shirt Bagutta; tie John Varvatos. Fashion editor Rose Forde.

LET'S TOUR - Se non potete andare a Londra sabato al Mute Festival, tutti a Gorizia: c'è Tony Hadley!

Roma - (Adnkronos) - Per molti e' semplicemente il cantante degli Spandau Ballet. Per altri e' una vera e propria icona pop, amata quasi quanto il gruppo rivale dei Duran Duran negli anni '80. Voce inconfondibile e riconoscibile anche a vent'anni di distanza, Tony Hadley approdera' sabato al Teatro Giuseppe Verdi di Gorizia con la sua band. Dopo lo scioglimento degli Spandau Ballet nel 1988, Hadley ha continuato il suo percorso musicale, proponendo i grandi successi che hanno contraddistinto l'epoca del filone pop 'New Romantic' insieme ad alcune tra le piu' belle canzoni del gruppo e come solista. Da 'To cut a long short story', singolo di debutto degli Spandau, a 'Chant nr.1'; da 'True' e 'Gold', pezzi che proiettarono la band in testa alle classifiche europee, fino a 'Through the barricades' e 'Build me up', brani simbolo della carriera solistica di Hadley. In carriera, il cantante ha realizzato quattro progetti da solista: l'esordio 'The State of Play' (1992), l'album live 'Obsession' (1995, ristampato poi nel 2000 e 2001, quest'ultimo con il titolo 'Obsession Live'), il disco di cover e brani autografi 'Tony Hadley' (1997) e il doppio Cd swing jazz 'Passing Strangers' (2006).