Interracial British Bands of the 80s

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My wife and I were trying to come up with as many as we could as we drove up / down Lake Shore Drive for the 43rd time in our move this weekend.

Here are some we remember:

Thompson Twins
Specials
(English) Beat
General Public
Fine Young Cannibals
Haircut 100
Culture Club

What others?

― frankE (frankE), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

The Soup Dragons

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

big country
fun boy 3
selecter

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

UB40
A Certain Ratio

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Happy Mondays if you count Rowetta

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

thin lizzy!

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

23 Skidoo
Haircut 100
Orange Juice (the Zeke Manyika years)

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Magazine
The Cure

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

The Belle Stars
Amazulu
The Monochrome Set

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Rip Rig and Panic

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

are nick cave & the bad seeds "british"?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Not really but Thin Lizzy aren't either

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

King Trigger

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

at one point Duran Duran were.... but I think that may have been 1990. During the nadir - Liberty.

― maria b (maria b), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Simple Minds

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Arcadia!

OK, I get that Thin Lizzy are Irish, and Nick Cave is Australian... but many of the Bad Seeds are from England, are they not?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Having a black drummer (they've got rhythm you know) was very very popular in the UK in the 80s

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Style Council (DC Lee)

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know who's in the Bad Seeds these days but Barry Adamson's the only Briton I can think of who was in them. As for Thin Lizzy, well they had Brian Robertson, who is Scottish and is Gary Moore not from Belfast and therefore British too?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Southern Death Cult

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Killing Joke

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Public Image Limited

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

a.r.kane

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Arcadia? That was just Nick, Rog, and Simon, right? Where's the black guy? Are you talking about Grace Jones's spoken part in the bridge of "Election Day?"

― maria b (maria b), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Speakin' of Rogers.... what about Ranking Roger's band? It got me so excited.

― maria b (maria b), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Joboxers! Wide Boy Awake!

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

By the way, this thread exists SO because of Bands Reunited on the tube last night.

― maria b (maria b), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Were A.R. Kane not all black? Crap band no matter what.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Arcadia was the side project with the dude from Chic wasn't it? or was that Power Station?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Silverfish

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

That was Power Station that had Tony Thompson on drums.

Was Jean Beauvoir an expat? I forget his band's name ...

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Level 42

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Hot Chocolate - 70s really
Shakatak - or were they all just white?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

The Cure

my wife disputes this. was there a time when they were, in fact, interacial?

― frankE (frankE), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Carmel! ("oh I-I-I-I-I am not afraid...of you")

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Andy Anderson, the drummer for "The Lovecats" and _The Top_:

http://www.gulfcoastvillas.com/thecure/Biography/andy.jpg

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Colourbox

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Simple Minds (w/Mel Gaynor on drums) they're Scots, though...

Wasn't Jean Beauvoir in the Plasmatics?

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, Scots are British.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

were Working Week biracial? i may be thinking of another band.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

(xpost)
sorry you know ignorant we yanks are.

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Working Week were interracial

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry you know HOW ignorant we yanks are. and I now see SM above...

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

what about massive attack? i know they're more 90's but they have roots in the wild bunch/soul II soul/smith & mighty scene in the late 80's right?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

i guess that's a bit of a stretch

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Were A.R. Kane not all black? Crap band no matter what.

They played with a white drummer circa "when you're sad". Wrong on both accounts.

― stevo (stevo), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Phil Collins.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

wow. there are even more than we thought...

― frankE (frankE), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Bow Wow Wow
Poly Styrene & band (Xray Spex in 70s)

― Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Big Audio Dynamite
Latin Quarter
The The

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 09:19 (twenty-two years ago)

one of the most important of them all
Jah Wobble and the Invaders of the Heart

― Tim Dixon, Thursday, 9 September 2004 10:12 (twenty-two years ago)

The Sound

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 9 September 2004 10:23 (twenty-two years ago)

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