Someone please save me the grief… orbit tourer

First two official HL albums are gothic techno masterpieces, a natural follow on from The Future material. All William Burrows and JG Ballard influences with cheap synths and bedroom production .I can totally see why they went pop/dancefloor - else they would have just followed the trajectory of Cabaret Voltaire and just kept selling records to the same people over and over. What a great legacy of music Sheffield has eh?
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First two official HL albums are gothic techno masterpieces, a natural follow on from The Future material. All William Burrows and JG Ballard influences with cheap synths and bedroom production .I can totally see why they went pop/dancefloor - else they would have just followed the trajectory of Cabaret Voltaire and just kept selling records to the same people over and over. What a great legacy of music Sheffield has eh?
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I can recall a sudden craze for Phil Oakey 'over 1 eye' hairstyles after those totp appearances, usually in remote outposts like Whaley bridge, where kids went in to Manchester or Sheffield once a week and returned sporting the most daft attire they saw in the big city! I wonder how many of them walked into lampposts or missed the bus due to impaired vision?
 
I was once at a birthday party where Phil Oakey was in attendance, as his girlfriend was a friend of someone I knew. He’s quite a shy bloke by all accounts. Maybe that’s why he went for a haircut that covered half his face - or maybe it’s just because it was the 80s 🤔.
 
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