Private View

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In 2021, Blancmange released the wonderful Commercial Break, and it seemed that Arthur rediscovered the guitar. Some Times These’ also retains a fuzzy kerrang element although the chorus keyboard theme has an immersive Eno-esque air that echoes his work on “Heroes”. years and 16 albums later, Blancmange have re-signed to London Records with the captivating and inspired ‘Private View’ , melding futuristic electronics, Neil Arthur’s unmistakable vocal hooks, and songs spanning buoyant and joyful to dark and brooding.

In June 2022, the modern-day Blancmange performed at the Meltdown Festival curated by the lady herself, at the aforementioned Southbank Centre. We ambled on, Stephen started the cassette player with the backing track, and I was still playing guitar at this point. In your user account, you can import your Spotify library or ‘follow’ artists you find on our site to add them to your ‘favourites’. And Helen was away in Barcelona doing an MA in Fine Art, so I’d go and sit in front of our favourite painting: ‘Doge Leonardo Loredan’ by Giovanni Bellini.

He tries to count the albums – by both Fader and Blancmange – on his fingers, starting from early 2020.

And in terms of other musician friends… I knew people, but I also had the same group of mates from up north and from college down here. Private View is a record that manages to capture an artist who is potently in the moment when it comes to creating new work, while also being able to draw on 40 years’ worth of knowledge, experience, and built-in intuition. We discuss the fortunes of his beloved Blackburn Rovers, his fascination with white plastic chairs, his current favourite album (“ Waves by Low Altitude – absolutely bloody gorgeous”) and the cover art of Private View – a pixelated photo of his art student daughter, Eleanor.So, back in the early 1980s, was it London that helped transform the experimental Blancmange into a bona fide pop machine? Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site.