Most Popular New Wave Music in London
Nation of Language
Wednesday 14 June 2023
Brooklyn-based synth auteurs Nation of Language are one of the most heralded new acts in recent memory, having already earned high-praise from the likes of NME, Fader, Pitchfork, Stereogum and countless others for their ability to blend the...
The Beat featuring Ranking Jnr
Friday 23 June 2023
With 1980's Top 10 hits like "Can't Get Used To Losing You", "Mirror In The Bathroom", "Tears Of A Clown", "Ranking Full Stop", "Too Nice To Talk To", "Hands Off, She's Mine", and "Twist & Crawl" Birmingham ska legends fuse Latin, ska, po...
The Beat featuring Ranking Jnr
Friday 23 June 2023
With 1980's Top 10 hits like "Can't Get Used To Losing You", "Mirror In The Bathroom", "Tears Of A Clown", "Ranking Full Stop", "Too Nice To Talk To", "Hands Off, She's Mine", and "Twist & Crawl", the Birmingham ska legends fused Latin, s...
Electric Six
Thursday 6 July 2023
Mixing garage rock, disco, punk, new wave, and metal into cleverly dumb, in-your-face songs celebrating hedonism in multiple forms, Electric Six emerged from the same late-'90s/early-2000s Detroit garage-punk scene that produced the White ...
The Liquid Engineers - Gary Numan Tribute
Saturday 22 July 2023
Gary Numan has been cited as a major influence on acts such as Nine Inch Nails to Prince,his music has been covered by acts from Beck,Blur, Basement Jaxx, Africa Bambatta Marilyn Manson, Little Boots and many more. Standing within th...
Nik Kershaw
Thursday 5 October 2023
One of the most popular pop stars and talented songwriters of the '80s, Ipswich-raised Nik Kershaw served his apprenticeship playing guitar in jazz fusion and functions bands before shooting to fame worldwide in 1984 with the UK Top 5 singl...
Diana Ross
Saturday 14 - Sunday 15 October 2023
Diana Ross began her career as a member of The Supremes - who, with their unique Motown pop sound, became one of the most successful groups of the 1960s. Following the group's demise, she struck out as a solo artist, achieving a No.1 single...
Gary Numan
Monday 16 - Tuesday 17 October 2023
London-born Gary Anthony James Webb helped turn the UK's budding new wave scene on its head in the late '70s. He launched his music career by starting the band Tubeway Army, who released their eponymous debut in 1978. At the time, he adopte...
Howard Jones
Tuesday 17 October 2023
Hailed by many as an electronic music pioneer, Howard Jones first burst upon the contemporary music scene in 1983, with his very English song-writing and pioneering synthesizers. He topped the charts in the UK and worldwide with his deut a...
Baxter Dury
Wednesday 18 October 2023
The son of the late rocker Ian Dury, Baxter Dury's idiosyncratically louche music, a universe of late-night London meet-ups, shuffling basslines and comedown disco tunes, all run through with a wry bleakness and sweet love of humanity. Inte...
China Crisis
Sunday 29 October 2023
Eddie Lundon and Gary Daly are the founder members of the band which started in Kirkby, Merseyside back in 1979. China Crisis found major success in the UK with five Top 40 singles, ten Top 50 singles and three Top 40 albums and hits across...
Heaven 17
Tuesday 14 November 2023
Sheffield new wave duo Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh left the original lineup of the Human League in after having differences with Phil Oakey. They recruited Glenn Gregory (who's vocal's were remarkably similar to Oakey's) and Heaven 17 w...
Martin McAloon (Prefab Sprout)
Sunday 19 November 2023
Martin McAloon will be performing a large selection of hit songs from Prefab Sprout's extensive archive celebrating over 40 years of his brother, Paddy McAloon's writing. This will be a rare opportunity to hear these incredible songs perfor...
THE BLOW MONKEYS
Saturday 2 December 2023
With hits like 'Digging Your Scene' and 'It Doesn't Have To Be This Way', The Blow Monkeys epitomised the glamour of mid-80s pop at its most graceful and sophisticated. In the band's frontman Robert Howard (aka Dr. Robert), they possessed a...
Electric Six
Saturday 9 December 2023
Mixing garage rock, disco, punk, new wave, and metal into cleverly dumb, in-your-face songs celebrating hedonism in multiple forms, Electric Six emerged from the same late-'90s/early-2000s Detroit garage-punk scene that produced the White ...
Hugh Cornwell (The Stranglers)
Thursday 25 January 2024
When future historians of music draw up a list of the movers and shakers who changed the modern musical landscape, there will be no doubt that North London-born Hugh Cornwell, the former leader and main songwriter of all The Stranglers' mos...