Trevor Horn Princes Trust Concert.

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A one night only gig at Wembley Arena, and... is this just the best line-up ever?

ABC
Art of Noise
Belle and Sebastian
Lisa Stansfield
Pet Shop Boys
Seal
Propaganda
Yes

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 16 July 2004 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this real or did you make it up, Dom?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 16 July 2004 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.thisisgibson.com/

this design agency has an announcement about it

― pete b. (pete b.), Friday, 16 July 2004 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yes.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 16 July 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

ZOINKS!!

Oh, man -- and if he announces a Buggles set with Geoff Downes I'll be ready to buy a plane ticket.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Friday, 16 July 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

needs the buggles man, the buggles!

― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Sunday, 18 July 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

where's t.A.T.u.?!

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 18 July 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Buggles are in !

What's on Wembley: Official Wembley Arena
http://www.whatsonwembley.com/htdocs/

see the top left box...

ABC, Art of Noise, Belle & Sebastian, Buggles, Lisa Stansfield, Pet Shop Boys, Propaganda, Seal, Yes and more

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 18 July 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I am seriously considering going to see this.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Sunday, 18 July 2004 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Bloody hell. I'll go if Frankie reform.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 19 July 2004 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

The big question is: Which Propaganda lineup? If the classic Brücken/Dörper/Mertens/Freytag, then WOAH!

― OleM (OleM), Monday, 19 July 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm guessing it's whatever group it was that did that album in 2002 that never came out...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Monday, 19 July 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

This looks like the best idea ever. I'm so there (maybe).

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 19 July 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

Updated lineup:

ABC
Art of Noise
Belle and Sebastian
Buggles
Frankie Goes To Hollywood (with special guest)
Grace Jones
Lisa Stansfield
Pet Shop Boys
Propaganda
Seal
t.A.T.u.
Yes

(wow).

http://www.princes-trust.org.uk/Main%20Site%20v2/headline%20news/trevor%20horn.asp

― Captain Sleep (Captain Sleep), Thursday, 4 November 2004 09:42 (twenty-one years ago)

There better be a DVD of this...

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Thursday, 4 November 2004 10:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Sadly the Propaganda appearing will be the Betsy Miller/Derek Forbes one. Also no Holly Johnson in FGTH but you knew that already. And I suspect ABC = Martin Fry + house backing band rather than the Martin Fry + Earl Brutus line-up for which I was secretly hoping.

They should really have tried harder to get Malcolm McLaren and Dollar. And maybe Simple Minds doing all of New Gold Dream in sequence.

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 4 November 2004 10:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I like that tAtU are above Yes in the billing..

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 4 November 2004 10:14 (twenty-one years ago)

And WHERE ARE THE KORGIS?

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 4 November 2004 10:16 (twenty-one years ago)

BUKKINGHAMM PALISS

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 4 November 2004 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

ABC are 'Horn-rimmed' according to roving reporter Jerry the Nipper. Talk about access all areas!

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 5 November 2004 09:10 (twenty-one years ago)

so...who went? details!

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3748065

― piscesboy, Friday, 12 November 2004 10:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Bah, I guess I shouldn't hold out for the long awaited Das Psych-O Rangers reunion.

― mzui (mzui), Friday, 12 November 2004 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)

THE! ESS! N! SHEALL! ART! OF! umm...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 12 November 2004 10:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I went. It was a bit embarrassing, like a Phoenix Nights "This Was The Future 20 Years Ago" concert party. Needed more Morley input.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 12 November 2004 10:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I confess I'd much rather have seen Yes than Belle & Sebastian

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 12 November 2004 10:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Details? You want details?

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 12 November 2004 11:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Did you know that Ian Penman WROTE the "Ladies and Gentlemen, Miss Grace Jones" intro?

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 12 November 2004 11:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Listening to Dollar in particular made me wish that Horn would do a remix of SMiLE.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 12 November 2004 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Which members of Yes pitched up for "Owner Of A Lonely Heart"?
Were Simple Minds there? (The Scotsman says so, but ah hae mi doots.)
FGTH minus Holly Johnson - was there any point?
And what was Camilla Parker-Bowles doing with her right hand during "Relax"?

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 12 November 2004 11:35 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Anderson, Squire and Howe for definite, but not Wakeman (Horn seemed to be doing most of the keyboard stuff). Couldn't see the drummer.

2. Sadly they were there, doing "Belfast Bastard Child" instead of the New Gold Dream album in sequence as I had clearly instructed.

3. No. I was disappointed that Paul Rutherford didn't belt out his lost acieed classic from '88 "Get Real."

4. One tried to avoid looking at Camilla Parker-Bowles at all times, so I can't help you on that one.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 12 November 2004 11:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Eh ? I was there and I don't remember the Simple Minds being there at all let alone doing 'Belfast Child' ! I would have walked over hot coals for NGD as Marcello suggested but seeing as Trev didn't produce it, they wouldn't even have done it anyway.

As for Yes - it was Trevor Rabin on lead vocals, wasn't it ? Surely Anderson wasn't there.

Belle and Seb were disappointingly tinny and didn't go down well with the chav-tastic slack-jawed fat-assed geography-teacher-dancing masses around me expecting a Here and Now concert. (Snatched conversation from the row in front: "Yeah, we ain't been out since we was at that Rat Pack show, they put on a steak dinner as well.")

Propaganda were the 'A Secret Wish' line-up but were only allowed 'Dr Mabuse'. The new Frankie singer was surprisingly good, though he did a more or less straight (ho ho) Holly impersonation.

Highlights - Grace Jones' utterly stunning 'Slave To The Rhythm' and the PSB's stealing the show with the best use of the orchestra in 'Left To My Own Devices'.

― darren (darren), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Trevor Rabin was it? I was quite far back and sonically assumed it was JA (actually the vocals sounded more like Trevor Horn than anyone else). Oh well.

Weren't Propaganda last night the Brucken-less 1990 line-up?

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 12 November 2004 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

No Marcello - it was definitely those four. Susanne and Claudia must have made up a while back as they appeared together at the OneTwo gig at Islington Academy last month, and Dorper and Mertens were at least introduced as such...one of them played drums. I suppose it could've been Brian McGee, but ...

― darren (darren), Friday, 12 November 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

God, Brian McGee. He had a synthpop band in the '80s called Endgames who were huge in Scotland but sold diddley squat anywhere else. "Waiting For Another Chance" with its red cover was the big summer hit of '83 in Glasgow (weird going through those old Scottish Top 40 charts and seeing people like Set The Tone and Leisure Process having hit after hit that year).

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 12 November 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Musically, Scotland was one of the most 80s places in the world in the 80s... if you get my drift

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 12 November 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

And let's not forget H20 ("I Dreeeeeam To Sleep") with one Alan McGee on bass...

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 12 November 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Fiction Factory? There was hundreds of the fuckers and then there was all that crap like Hipsway with their Candy Honey Chocolate Baby Girl crap

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 12 November 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Mark, did McGee (Alan) do H2O's TOTP appearance ?

― darren (darren), Friday, 12 November 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

(one of the dreariest ever, as I recall - why oh why oh why wasn't it Paul Haig instead (sigh)...)?)

― darren (darren), Friday, 12 November 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, indeed - "Heaven Sent" went top ten in Scotland, but made #65 or something equally ridiculous naturally. IIRC McGee did TOTP with H20, and he still had his '80s perm.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 12 November 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Come to think of it, I interviewed him for a fanzine in '84 and he still had a mullet then.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 12 November 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I so kinda wanted to be Scottish in 1983-4 ...

― darren (darren), Friday, 12 November 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Paul Haig is, and I know I once said this on a Paul Haig thread here, the only man whose photo I have ever taken into a hairdresser's and asked them to attempt to replicate.

― darren (darren), Friday, 12 November 2004 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

My "attempt" was the 12" cover of Sylvian's "Red Guitar" - needless to say, I never visited that hairdresser again... Anyway, let's stick to the thread - any suggestions who Trevor should have produced in the past/should produce in the future? I throw in Billy Mackenzie...

― ludesse (ludesse), Friday, 12 November 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

After his "Instinction" remix he was hired to produce the True album for Spandau Ballet but Kemp & Co. thought he was too "schoolmasterly" (which funnily enough was the same reason Dollar gave for their split with him) and so decided to get in Swain and Jolley instead because "they're more like mates than producers."

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 12 November 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

"schoolmasterly"

The belle and sebastian link now makes sense.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 12 November 2004 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd like to have heard a Trevor Horn-produced Lush, for one.

― darren (darren), Friday, 12 November 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Or the House of Love, Bjork, Madonna ...

― darren (darren), Friday, 12 November 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Van Der Graaf Generator

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 12 November 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick Cave

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 12 November 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Leonard Cohen

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 12 November 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Scritti Politti, Prefab Sprout...

― ludesse (ludesse), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh I don't think he could have improved on Thomas Dolby's production of the Sprout, which is nigh perfect.

Also Cupid & Psyche '85, though credited to Arif Mardin, was really a Gary Langan job, so it was kind of a Horn production by proxy.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 12 November 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Less lesbian than one might have hoped...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Also Cupid & Psyche '85, though credited to Arif Mardin, was really a Gary Langan job, so it was kind of a Horn production by proxy.

Wait, huh? Not according to The All-Powerful All Music Guide it wasn't...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

The All-Powerful All Music Guide really ought to get into the habit of reading album sleeves, it would make their job so much easier.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 12 November 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

To be precise, only 3 tracks on "Cupid" were produced by Mardin - Langan didn't have a hand in them as they were all done in the US. The "British" tracks somewhat pale in comparison. I wouldn't put Langan in the same league as Horn - he's a great engineer but not a great producer. His production values (Darren, are you listening? :))for ABC's "Beauty Stab" and Belouis Some just don't make the grade.

― ludesse (ludesse), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Which tracks? I'm at the mercy of TA-P AMG here at work...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

WoodBeez, Absolute and Hypnotise, I'm guessing.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Mmmm, Absolute...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Absolute (the best of the lot!), Wood Beez and Don't Work That Hard.

― Ludesse (ludesse), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Trevor Horn Is/Was GOD.

Ok. Is.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

http://c90.com/horn/

― mark e (mark e), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

ooh, when it comes to 'production values' Michael, no-one can hold a candle to you (now THERE's a song...). So what's Trevor Horn's finest moment, then ? For me, it would still have to be "Left To My Own Devices" - all that's great about TH and the PSBs in one blissful, not-a-second-too-long package.

― darren (darren), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

The 12" of "Slave To The Rhythm" and Dollar's "Videotheque".

― Ludesse (ludesse), Friday, 12 November 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Has anyone heard Lisa Stansfield's cover of "When Love Breaks Down" yet?

― Ludesse (ludesse), Friday, 12 November 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Not as of yet (could it bloody well top the Dolby/PS version? not likely, though will be interesting to hear). But clearly if you're trying to speak of the man's achievements, you can't miss out that epic tripartite "Dr Mabuse", all of the Dollar singles he produced, and Godley and Creme's "Cry"...

Does no one rate "The Seduction of Claude Debussy"? Morley input was rather welcome in the live show, as presented in the "Into Vision" DVD. The newer material didn't seem comparable to that compiled on "Daft", but it worked as a *show*, undoubtedly.

Why wasn't Morley involved in this concert? Seems surprising that he wouldn't be, considering the pair's links in the past.

― Tom May (Tom May), Saturday, 13 November 2004 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

Brain will be processing sight of Lol Creme playing behind Tatu (sp? pnc? pds?) for some time. (This just played on the HDNet channel in the States.)

Regarding Cupid & Psyche/AMG: According to the credits of the Warner Bros US copy I have, Langan only mixed "Absolute" and "Hypnotize." No involvement on "Wood Beez" or anything else in any capacity.

― Andy K, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 00:13 (eighteen years ago)

i finally saw the Into Vision concert footage a few months back and the Morley input is just dire.

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 00:18 (eighteen years ago)

And it appears the Propaganda portion of the evening was cut from this version. Of course. (No Belle & Sebastian or Lisa Stansfield, either.)

― Andy K, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 00:24 (eighteen years ago)

And no Art of Noise -- that makes total sense.

― Andy K, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 00:25 (eighteen years ago)

Why is "lol creme" not an ilx meme?

― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 01:20 (eighteen years ago)

This is a creme horn, LOL:

http://www.nonassweets.com/Creme%20Horn.JPG

― Andy K, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 01:54 (eighteen years ago)

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