4AD 1984-1986 = The Radium Screen

[Jason²]

If you look back with awe and reverence on the music that 4AD, circa 1984-1986 (The Cocteau Twins, Xmal Deutschland, Colourbox, Dead Can Dance, The Wolfgang Press, The Birthday Party, Modern English, Clan Of Xymox, etc.), brought to the world then you absolutely must check out <B><A HREF="http://idealcopy.american-data.net/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=MU-RADIU-WHITE-01">The Radium Screen</A></B>.
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In all my years posting to this board I have never once singled out a new, unsigned band that I am as moved by and as enamored with as I am by <B><A HREF="http://idealcopy.american-data.net/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=MU-RADIU-WHITE-01">The Radium Screen</A></B>.

I am so excited about these guys that we (The Ideal Copy) have asked the band to allow us to offer their debut EP "White Faces" to the world - with a money back guarantee! The most obvious audio points-of-reference are The Wolfgang Press/Gang Of Four/Bauhaus - but with an electronic and almost "dancey" edge. You can download one of the songs from the EP, <A HREF="http://www.theradiumscreen.com/01%20Dirty%20Blonde.mp3">Dirty Blonde</A>, absolutely free! So if you like what you hear - the rest of the EP will not disappoint.

In the next week or so The Ideal Copy is going to send out an email devoted to exposing this band to the world and we will encourage all of our customers to start spreading the word. In the meantime, I would like to share this amazing band with my friends on The New Wave Outpost.

And as a disclaimer - to those that don't know me - this is not a spammy sales pitch. I'm not trying to cheaply promote a band I work with. My involvement with this band is purely on the fan level. I look back with such fondness to that era in the mid-80s when "alternative" was truly a flag-bearers music term and I would comb through the record bins at Moby Disc and Record Trader looking for Vaughan Oliver's 23 envelope art just to add another precious 4ad find to my collection. When I heard The Radium Screen it all came rushing back to me in one giant wave of teenage nostalgia. In a perfect world, The Radium Screen will be as big as The Killers.

Jason Fiber

[Frau_Blucher]

Among current bands, there's a bit of White Rose Movement in that particular sample. I'll definitely check out the rest. Thanks Jason.

[MARV]

I can definitely see why you're so enthusiastic about this band, Jason. I can also hear a bit of She Wants Revenge in the sound. Definitely contemporaries. Definitely let us know if and when they decide to tour.

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[Jason²]

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I am going to keep bumping this topic until everyone has read it!!

[hnmm]

Interesting to see the 4AD bands lumped in together here and while there were certain similarities they were also very different in their own right.

However, depsite my own love of The Cocteaus and Xmal Deutschland in particular, one thing that stood out as a defining moment of watching bands in the 80s was the amount of times that we were subjected to The Wolfgang Press as support act to many of the good 4AD bands. The Wolfgang Press were without any shadow of doubt the worst live band I ever had the misfortune to see and during the period 84 to 86 they seemed to haunt me and turn up at almost every gig I went to!! I've no idea whether they were any better on record as once I'd seen them for the first time I couldn't bring myself to listen! Truely dreadful doesn't adequately describe them and I can't remember a gig when they weren't boo-ed off!!

You might wonder why I stayed and listened if I disliked them so much - well, I used to like to get to the front of the stage for the main act and if you didn't get there during the support act you wouldn't get there at all, however, if I knew they were on I would take a book!!

There is a phrase that sums The Wolfgang Press up to a tee, "Emperor's New Clothes"!

[KYYX4ever]

Jason, thanks for posting this info. However, to me, it doesn't sound like 4AD stuff. That's just IMHO. I do quite liek it, though.

And hnmm, I happen to agree w/ you that I never did quite like Wolfgang Press. All the other 4AD stuff, yes yes YES, but not WP. Never saw them live, though.

[hnmm]

Glad it wasn't just me then![:D]