Interview: Martin Fry
Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
ABC's Martin Fry returns to his home city for an orchestrally-enhanced Lexicon Of Love show. He speaks to Paul Taylor.
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Interview: Martin Fry
Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
ABC's Martin Fry returns to his home city for an orchestrally-enhanced Lexicon Of Love show. He speaks to Paul Taylor.
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Smokey Robinson still working miracles
Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
The BBC Electric Proms is famous for spawning unusual musical pairings. Here Motown legend Smokey Robinson and Doves singer Jimi Goodwin talk about what they've got planned for this year.
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Classic ABC at the Bridgewater
Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
DIG out your gold lamé suit as eighties throwbacks ABC are bringing their classic album, The Lexicon Of Love, to town with the help of a 50-piece orchestra.
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Pick of the Picnic
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 08/28/2009
The Hartnoll brothers called it a day in 2004 after 15 years of playing live gigs with miners’ lamps on their heads. This year, Phil and Paul have returned to work, so expect them to bring the opening day to a close with a satisfying bang.
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Turning back the clock
Living with a boy (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
The boyfriend, me and the mother spent the weekend down in Ashby visiting my sister and her family. We had a date on the Friday evening with Calke Abbey where my sister had got us all tickets to the Back to the 80s concert that's been doing the rounds over the past few months. It was actually in Hull in East Park for its first date but I never heard about it. I was a little apprhensive, although technically...
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ABC offers up music and memories of the glorious '80s
Mets Guy in Michigan (Free subscription) | 06/28/2009
I think about the 1980s and see milestones and adventures. I see graduations from high school and two colleges. Marriage and a Mets championship. A real world job and an apartment. My life probably changed more in that decade than it will in any other. So the soundtrack for that transition from teen to adult will always be special. Some people might hear Human League and Flock of Seagulls and the Cars...
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Rant: Cheadle Hulme's Church Inn reviewed
mancon news feed (Free subscription) | 06/18/2009
Dave Bishop finds charm in Cheadle Hulme and recalls Mrs Slocombe
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Abc - Fry Considers Putting The Look Of Love Onstage
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
ABC star MARTIN FRY is considering turning the 80s pop act's hits into a new stage musical - because he thinks the tunes would be perfect for "a bittersweet love...
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Abc - Abc Star Fry To Head African Charity Trek
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
ABC star MARTIN FRY and GO WEST's RICHARD DRUMMIE are teaming up to trek through Namibia next year (10) in an effort to raise awareness and cash for African...
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VARIOUS BITS AND PIECES: Remember the band...
KulPop (Free subscription) | 06/06/2009
VARIOUS BITS AND PIECES: Remember the band "Red Box" (Lean On Me, Heart Of The Sun, For America)? Well they're back and have a new album titled "Plenty" that is due out this year. Simon Toulson-Clarke and the band have been playing a few small pub gigs in the U.K. and have a brand new website up and running. Their first album "The Circle & The Square" was reissued...
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A soundtrack to The Price of Love - 21
the price of love (Free subscription) | 04/28/2009
What’s it like to have loved And to lose her touch? What’s it like to have loved And to lose that much? ABC — June 1982 The greatest song ever written about a break-up. That’s quite a claim for me to make, especially for a song from 1982, a year which most music lovers might tactfully forget. Yet ABC’s debut album [...]
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Now I know there’s no way I can write those wrongs
The Ministry Of Truth (Free subscription) | 04/24/2009
On Sunday 2 September 1990 Melvyn Bragg finally confirmed he’d permanently lost the plot by devoting a South Bank Show Special to George Michael in celebration of the release the next day of Yog’s second solo album Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1. Nearly two decades on, that album is remarkable mainly for its mediocrity. The singles [...]
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ABC, Royal Albert Hall, London
The Independent (Free subscription) | 04/13/2009
Yes, we get the gold lamé suit, but only at the end of a glorious night that has placed one of the Eighties' most perfectly constructed albums back near the top of the pop pantheon.
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ABC, Royal Albert Hall, London The Prodigy, Cardiff International Arena, Cardiff
The Independent (Free subscription) | 04/12/2009
'It was underneath a wig shop in Brick Lane," says Martin Fry, reminiscing about the insalubrious location of Sarm East studios where, in 1982, ABC recorded the luxuriant Lexicon of Love, one of the greatest pop albums ever.