Private View

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A lot of people are frightened of the future and are quite happy to have a repeat of something that was done before,” he says. She was climbing up the PA, changing costumes, balancing along a bar between the audience and the orchestra pit in high heels and this fantastic blue suit.

Sadly, Luscombe had to leave the band due to health issues, but Neil Arthur continued on, and in 2022 he has just released Private View, the first Blancmange album on London Records since 1985’s Believe You Me. Since reforming just over a decade ago, Neil Arthur has used Blancmange to experiment with sounds and express new found soundscapes across a further ten records. I was thinking about the difficulties everyone is going through, and about the people that aren’t here any more.As my dad would have said, ‘Oooh, that’s a nice piece of wood, that…’ Anyway, Helen and I got it all outside, and some of the wood had warped. Forty years after Happy Families, Blancmange are back on London Records with a new album, Private View. Blancmange has always utilized guitar in its electronic sound, but since Commercial Break, Arthur has not been afraid to bring the guitar front and centre. Written and recorded by vocalist and sole band member Neil Arthur, the record marks Blancmange’s 11th studio release in as many years and sees him collaborate with David Rhodes, who laces the tracks with guitar and washes of immersive synths.

Lean and tanned, with cropped hair and beard, he still plays proper, competitive football in an Over-50s FA League. Despite it being 45 years since the teenage Neil Arthur left his native Darwen for the moderately bright lights of late 1970s London. For a while I was making music, and if you’re successful there’s a tag that comes with that: ‘Pop Star’. sees our hero lost and forlorn while ‘Everything Is Connected’ offers a strange kind of eerie indie electro-funk but while not a reprise of ‘Feel Me’, it is as the title suggests, part of the lineage. Long-standing admirers include Moby , John Grant and Honey Dijon , who states that “ British synth pop was hugely influential in the burgeoning house music scene and Blancmange was a big part of that.Long-standing admirers include Moby, John Grant and Honey Dijon, who states that “British synth pop was hugely influential in the burgeoning house music scene and Blancmange was a big part of that.