they have a website http://www.figuresonabeach.com/
this is great any more? MEK "Andy Kellman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 03/31/2008 09:54:48 AM: > And here (from a couple years prior), they're a lot more early Modern > English than Blancmange: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUx-yNTxrZ4 > > Each member has his own "Post-Punk Halloween 1980" look (the singer is > an Ant, the guitarist is Bernard Sumner, etc). > > Anyone know if the band recorded any of this earlier material, before > they signed? > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Andy Kellman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Figures on a Beach, courtesy of Dearborn's own Back Porch Video: > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48SWnIJ17Dk > > > > (A few resources mention Detroit, but the group did seem a bit more... > > er... Wonderland than Northland.) > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:11 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > com> wrote: > > > > > > Heyall > > > > > > Are there any mostly forgotten synth pop acts from the 80s > that were trying > > > to do their thing in Detroit? > > > I would think that with all the Euro/UK stuff coming over that all that > > > creative influence would have poured into more than just the techno cup. > > > Was there really no Human League wanna-be's? No Depeche Mode posers? > > > > > > We all know about the Euro-synth pop influences on Detroit > techno/house and > > > seemingly everything from there became techno. What about > pre-house/cusp > > > days? > > > There had to have been a few back-combing new wave teens with asymmetric > > > buttoned shirts who wanted to be 21st Century synth pirates. > > > > > > Detroit old schoolers - speak up! > > > > > > We got A Number of Names & Cybotron that sort of fit the bill > > > anyone else > > > > > > maybe in the Greater Detroit area? > > > > > > MEK > > > > > > > >
