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Secret Thesis - 1980s Division (t'was Blitz to be alive in that dandy dawn)
There's an exhibition at the Design Museum in High Street Kensington dedicated to the New Romantics and the club scene of Blitz and ...
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NME cartoon circa 1981 nicely skewers the self-declared aristocracies of club culture Apropos Oh the myopic narcissism of the young! Or ... -
He should at least have put on some make-up on his legs for the studio lights Russell wore hotpants in the promo video too - it was a uni...
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Came across this snippet from Kevin Rowland 's The Q & A in The Guradian a few weeks back (Kev promoting his memoir Bless Me Fathe...
Quite a muscular-looking wrist/hand there.
ReplyDeleteThe top one definitely looks unfeminine.
DeleteI am tantalized by something Simon Napier Bell said when I interviewed him for S+A - at least I think it was him who told me this - something about an image of David Sylvian with shirt open to reveal female breasts. I don't think this androgynous image was used in an advertisement, it was projected behind them onstage.... maybe in Japan itself, when they toured there? I've not been able to find a trace of the image, or a mention of it.
Actually, there's a reference to it in a Sylvie Simmons looking-back piece:
Delete"Napier-Bell, meanwhile, was pulling out the stops to get the band press. He tried the lot: Oriental name angle (sumo wrestler cabs around to the rock mags delivering sake); androgynous image angle (the ad where David pulled open his jacket to reveal fake breasts); the gorgeous bloke angle. After a three-month campaign, the Japanese bit, the group were stars in their namesake country, with 30,000 girls in their fan club before the first album was even released."
I could be wrong, but I don't remember DS being a massive girlie heart throb in the UK; as mentioned in a previous post, he did inspire a male tribe of - largely straight I would say - wannabes (there were two in my sixth form college c. 1983). I guess he joins the company of Brigitte Bardot, Julie Driscoll and Julie Christie: fed up with being gorgeous & so they go on to do something a little unexpected.
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