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Haysi Fantayzee were a British new wave band of the early 1980s.
Formed and fronted by white dreadlocked singers Jeremy Healy (also known as Jeremiah) and Kate Garner, and with Kate’s boyfriend songwriter/producer/manager Paul Caplin in the background, the band had several UK hits in 1983 such as the singlesJohn Wayne Is Big Leggy, Shiny Shiny, and Sister Friction. The band never broke through to the same kind of success in the US, although they did have some popularity there.
Originally Caplin and Garner had intended to make music with just Garner performing, but then they met Healy (who at 19 was much younger than Garner) and decided to pair them up. The band used their artsy look as a selling point, making a crude video performance and using that instead of a demo tape to sell the band to record companies. Their attention-getting outfits were often designed by Garner herself. The two singers looked like distorted mirror images of each other, with similar hair and makeup. Their glamorous ragamuffin style was frequently compared to Boy George.
The band’s catchy music often had darkly humorous, subversive lyrics.Shiny Shiny is an upbeat dance tune about the apocalypse, while John Wayne Is Big Leggy is about John Wayne refusing to remove his holster when he has sex with a squaw.
The band often garnered musical comparisons to such other new wave pop acts as Bow Wow Wow, Bananarama, and Adam and the Ants. Garner appeared alongside Bananarama in the 1983 music videoWho’s That Girl by the Eurythmics.
Formed and fronted by white dreadlocked singers Jeremy Healy (also known as Jeremiah) and Kate Garner, and with Kate’s boyfriend songwriter/producer/manager Paul Caplin in the background, the band had several UK hits in 1983 such as the singles
John Wayne Is Big Leggy, Shiny Shiny, and Sister Friction. The band never broke through to the same kind of success in the US, although they did have some popularity there.
Originally Caplin and Garner had intended to make music with just Garner performing, but then they met Healy (who at 19 was much younger than Garner) and decided to pair them up. The band used their artsy look as a selling point, making a crude video performance and using that instead of a demo tape to sell the band to record companies. Their attention-getting outfits were often designed by Garner herself. The two singers looked like distorted mirror images of each other, with similar hair and makeup. Their glamorous ragamuffin style was frequently compared to Boy George.
The band’s catchy music often had darkly humorous, subversive lyrics.
Shiny Shiny is an upbeat dance tune about the apocalypse, while John Wayne Is Big Leggy is about John Wayne refusing to remove his holster when he has sex with a squaw.The band often garnered musical comparisons to such other new wave pop acts as Bow Wow Wow, Bananarama, and Adam and the Ants. Garner appeared alongside Bananarama in the 1983 music video
Who’s That Girl by the Eurythmics.
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metawirt wrote:
Man, the way she moves those hips in the video Shiny Shiny...oh MAN! [2]
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ClydeConkey wrote:
Man, the way she moves those hips in the video Shiny Shiny...oh MAN!
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Strawb77 wrote:
frankly, these two have always terrified me
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Lesscities wrote:
12" of John Wayne is big leggy is genious and weird,or is it genious because of weirdness,or better the other way round??Seems the same to me...
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nannel wrote:
Schade, dass es so wenig von denen hier gibt!
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fluffmiao wrote:
I didn't know there was a reference to Marquis de Sade in the lyrics of Shiny Shiny - Makes me wonder what the song is about now. I don't think I picked that up first time round as a 12 year old.
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Orchitis wrote:
Awesome
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BLOOD1975 wrote:
funny ! :D - I have an old vinyl-single at home
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miss_brit wrote:
Haysi Fantayzee is the SHIT!
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berlintv wrote:
total genial!!1
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ThusIsOurKrao wrote:
I heart this.
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dinosaurmilk wrote:
SHINY SHINY SHA NA NA NA!
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gahoonisme wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg1LABzdwbE
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