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(1979 – 1987, 2006 – present)

“Blancmange” were formed in Harrow (Greater London) in 1979, by vocalist, Neil Arthur (born on 15 August 1958, in Darwen, Lancashire); and instrumentalist Stephen Luscombe (born on 29 October 1954, in Hillingdon, Middlesex). They released their first EP “Irene and Mavis” the following year, but had their first real exposure via a track on the seminal “Some Bizarre” compilation album, alongside fellow acts “Soft Cell” and “Depeche Mode”. This led to them signing a deal with London Records.

Blancmange supported “Nash The Slash” on a London club tour in October and November 1980. Nash introduced the band to the Virgin subsidiary record label DinDisc, but they were ultimately signed by London Records, in 1982.

Their first success was the “Talking Heads” influenced single “Feel Me”, a minor hit in 1982, but later that year they broke through with the single “Living On The Ceiling”, which made Number 7 in the UK singles chart. Their debut album, “Happy Families” (which featured a sleeve painting in the style of Louis Wain) also reached the top 30.

Further hits followed with “Waves”, “Blind Vision”, “That’s Love That It Is” and “Don’t Tell Me”, all of which reached the top 40, with “Don’t Tell Me” even making no.8 in the UK, while their second album “Mange Tout” reached the top 10.

In 1984, Blancmange covered “ABBA’s” single “The Day Before You Came”, which reached No 22 in the UK (slightly higher than Abba’s original less than two years earlier). The bands’ 1985 single and video for “Lose Your Love” featured in the 1986 Walt Disney film “Flight of the Navigator”.
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  • jjmini

    so good. Happy Families = me p happy

    Thursday evening

  • morrisseyknox

    The Day Before You Came <3 what a tuuuneee!

    last week

  • tangerman

    ELECTRO PEARLS

    last month

  • SC2DMAXX

    Did these guys get stripped out of the Last.fm rotation? I can't get any of their songs to show up in their own station anymore.

    last month

  • IronPenguin

    I'm up a bloody tree

    March 2012

  • LE0NB

    Saw them at bestival, they still got it :)

    September 2011

  • CDPETE01

    saw them touring mange tout in 82/83 at Norwich UEA,couldnt get to Cambridge looking forward to hearing the new CD heard some good reviews, like they really count.

    April 2011

  • FuGen

    this band's been name-dropped a lot during The Great La Roux Incident of 2009, so i'm going to assume this new record is a way of cashing in on their short return to the (relative) limelight. kinda like getting high on second hand smoke, only probably more embarrassing.

    March 2011
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