The Dutch New Adventures started in Groningen, Holland in 1978. Part-of the new-wave culture at the time brought them great success. The trio contributes their style to Cuby & the Blizzard, Gallagher, Cream, Hendrix, at Years After and ZZ-Top. They secured a contract with Polydor about 1979, stands the trio in the voorprogramma of a [...]
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NEW ADVENTURES – 1999 – SELFTITLED (’80) + WILD CATS MOANIN’ (’81)
Posted: October 20, 2010 in New Wave0
The Boys’ is chock full of fast, tuneful and powerful songs and still stands as probably their best record. From the Brats re-treads of “Sick On You” and “Tumble With Me” to the set closer “Living In The City“ it‘s a breeze of fresh air and this wonderful record debuted at number 50 in the [...]
By virtue of their late ’70s emergence and a deal with Stiff Records in Europe, the Sports were accidentally New Wave. But they were always too soulful and too capricious to join that club (or any) by choice. With new guitarist Martin Armiger, their second album Don’t Throw Stones had some of punk’s nervous energy [...]
Condemned at the time for offering up little more than a straight carbon copy of its predecessor, the second Boys album has since ascended to the pantheon of power pop greats, a combination of the band’s own inestimable position at the forefront of what, by early 1978, was already a burgeoning movement, and their seemingly [...]
Courtesy of “Gumby”, the only album released by this good New Wave band. Take pomp-rock, shorten its sights (unpump the pomp a bit), inject a bit of youth, alternate male and female vocals and what have you got? The Invaders (from West Yorkshire — not to be confused with two American bands of the same [...]
