Can't believe I'd never heard of post-punk types the Delta 5 until a couple of weeks ago, when I heard Mind Your Own Business on (I think) Gideon Coe's 6 Music programme. But from the second I heard that mesmerising I Heard It Through The Grapevine-esque bassline, I was hooked - and I've barely stopped playing it since. Delta 5 - Mind Your Own Business mp3 Buy Delta 5 Singles & Sessions 1979 - 1981
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A key component of the late-70's new wave / post-punk era were Leeds five-piece, Delta 5. The band, which featured two basses opposing a sole guitar, only existed for two short years, yet rather than claiming any commercial success, Delta 5 are often on the receiving end of a vast array of influential nods. Basically they're a band to mention if you are bland enough to try and impress someone

We'll be at legendary rock 'n roll Soho basement St. Moritz for Club For Losers on Friday Jan 28th. Bands are on between 9-12ish, with DJing (us) afterwards till 3am. Vibe is filthy punk, scuzzy rock 'n' roll, and trashy cult vinyl. As ever, there'll be plenty of girl rock action. Delta 5 is a little bit more post punk than the usual vibe, but it can't be all Sex Pistols all the time, can it? St. Moritz - 161 Wardour St, Soho, W1F 8WJ [ Map ] [...]

au pairs - "it's obvious" (download) From their 1981 debut release Playing With A Different Sex . The UK's Au Pairs were a very important "post-punk" band, and this record is considered by some to be a forgotten post-punk classic. Highly recommended for fans of Gang of Four or Delta 5. buy
Slick post-punk British road-trip music.

Hier, nous apprenions que Nadine Morano, avec sa fougue habituelle, avait déclaré : " Moi, ce que je veux du jeune musulman, quand il est français, c'est qu'il aime son pays, c'est qu'il trouve un travail, c'est qu'il ne parle pas le verlan, qu'il ne mette pas sa casquette à l'envers. " Aujourd'hui, elle dément et dit qu'il y a des choses plus importantes dont il faut parler en ce moment, comme l'hospitalisation de Johnny Hallyday et la vaccination contre la grippe A. D'autant plus que ses propos ont été sortis de leur contexte, et qu'elle parlait des [...]

SO here I am with another post, since two people told me what they wanted to be when they grew up in the last post (not a grown-up and a studier of dinosaurs). Thanks, guys. Today I did a little free association to get here. Here's a rough sketch: Talking Heads->Tom Tom Club->Covered by Chicks on Speed->who also covered this song. From Wikipedia : Combining feminist politics with a two-bass funk-punk sound (much in the style of another, more famous Leeds band, Gang of Four), [...]

SO here I am with another post, since two people told me what they wanted to be when they grew up in the last post. Thanks, guys. Today I did a little free association to get here. Here's a rough sketch: Talking Heads->Tom Tom Club->Covered by Chicks on Speed->who also covered this song. From Wikipedia : Combining feminist politics with a two-bass funk-punk sound (much in the style of another, more famous Leeds band, Gang of Four), they released in 1979 their debut single, "Mind [...]
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Yes, and here we go again. Another summer tenpack, this time featuring nothing but British postpunk from the late seventies and early eighties. Arguably one of the most interesting periods in the history of pop music, as creativity was running rampant and boundaries were few. Fall head honcho Mark E. Smith tells it like it is, with a nod to the summer of love: "Stuck peanuts in my hair, and all the leaves are brown... I'll be part of the music scene, envy of the choosy set, part [...]

We have a new mix for you. It's summer inspired and every other song ended up being French. Perhaps because the French do summer best...? i dunno. Download, twitter and facebook it / share it with all of your pals. FOREVER SUMMER - mixed by Hunk The Drunk (47mins) tracklist: Phoenix - 1901 (M/F Nu Wave rmx) Metronomy - My Heart Rate Rapid Make The Girl Dance - Baby Baby Baby (The Shoppings Version) Yacht - Psychic City Discovery - Swing Tree [...]

He said he really liked me and did I take the pill? I sprayed myself with Charlie and got ready for the kill. Flowers were the Scottish Joy Division. That's one of those throw-away lines journalists like to use, but there's something to it. Both the throbbing octave bass lines and razor guitars are present (courtesy Andy Copland and Fraser Sutherland), along with a probing intellect in the lyric department and a willingness to go just one step beyond. Both bands made it onto Earcom compilations, documents of the Fast Products label Bob Last established in Edinburgh in [...]
This is an odd track that I wouldn't normally put on the playlist but it's just got stuck in my head and I can't get it out. With a great bass line and repetitive lines you try getting it out of your head. I discovered it on the Stranger Than Fiction soundtrack that I mentioned earlier this week. MP3: Mind Your Own Business - Delta 5 (YSL)

La semaine dernière, les filles étaient mélancoliques , aujourd'hui elles sont en révolte. On va le voir au travers du "riot grrrl", nom donné au début des années 90 à un mouvement de groupes post-punk féminins, et même féministes. Le "riot grrrl", c'est d'abord Kathleen Hanna, qui a fondé plusieurs groupes mythiques : Bikini Kill, Julie Ruin, Le Tigre. C'est avec elle que l'on démarre ce post. Après, on jouera avec les époques, riot grrrl ou pas, mais sans remonter à Janis Joplin, et en oubliant PJ Harvey [...]

Delta 5 - полноправный носитель ярлыка «знаковая группа танцевального пост-панка 80-х». Эта пятерка (2 парня и 3 девушки) обычно упоминается в ряду Gang of Four и the Mekons – подружки участников the Mekons, насмотревшись репетиций бойфрендов, решили, что и им есть что сказать миру посредством семи нот. Два баса, грязный гитарный звук, стремительная ровная бочка плюс саркастические тексты, посвященные бывшим любовникам, и первый же сингл - придуманный, сыгранный и записанный Delta 5 за несколько минут Mind Your Own Business - становится хитом в 1979. Delta 5 подписал [...]

Post-punk in Leeds was all about politics. It's something that you can avoid when you're talking about other post-punk scenes, which were about commerce, or self-expression, or formal experimentation, or formless rebellion. You can make a case for the political implications of any of those things. But, in Leeds, politics came first. To talk about the political situation in England in the seventies is to provide a litany of problems. Outrageous unemployment, massive inflation, Irish terrorism, widespread strikes, casual racism, ineffective government. Labour had the premiership, with Big Jim Callaghan in office from 1976-79, and failed to curb—or [...]
This is the 499th posting at TVV. The one I'm most proud of is that back in April this year when I managed to capture Edwyn Collins live on video and post the clip. And I'm not ashamed to offer this early repeat showing.....I haven't actually written all 499 posts. I've had help from two blokes called Colin.In numerical order.......Colin #1 is Comrade Colin from And Before The First Kiss. Regular

Delta 5 : Mind Your Own Business [ purchase ] "Can I have a taste of your ice cream? Can I lick the crumbs from your table? Can I interfere in your crisis? No! Mind your own business..." Sound advice from the Delta 5, one of these fine British bands of the postpunk era. They hailed from Leeds and were mates with the better known Gang Of Four, with whom they [...]