Aloysius will sulk if he doesn't get his crack cocaine

[cappuccino_kid]

Enjoyed Black Plastic on Saturday; I recognised practically nothing of Jo's set, but the stuff with guitars sounded like early Spandau and the stuff without guitars sounded like early Human League. Is that Italo disco? Anyway, it takes a true pop scholar to realise that Couples and 'The Perfect Kiss' piss all over Someone to Drive You Home and '

Comments

[class_worrier]

I think Italo is more early Sam Fox than early Human League but as it's not really my thing, I could be wrong.

[exliontamer]

Glad you had a good time - setlists should be up this week if we haven't left the notepad at the venue. I think I only played one Italodisco tune (Moskow Diskow by Telex) IIRC.

[pippaalice]

Why did no one steal me the man with a teddy bear? Friendship FAIL.

[johnny_vertigen]

Italo is a pretty broad brush, but it's normally manufactured pop sounding electronic songs aimed squarely at the clubs. Slick pop music with banal lyrics that was all probably written in five minutes but sounds no worse for it. As the chap above said, more Sam Fox than Human League.

[cappuccino_kid]

For ages I've been wanting to write a song called Italo Calvino Disco, but been held back by having nothing much to say about either Italo Calvino or Disco. Maybe banal lyrics written in 5 minutes are the way forward.

[strange_powers]

I like your writing about film, so that blog is very welcome. I wrote a comment about Obsession, but I think the internet ate it.

[cappuccino_kid]

I think wordpress gets a lot of spam and I have to approve comments, but cheers- I'll have a look later.