Dance music artist Kate Ryan is the latest artist to cover Bronski Beats queer anthem ‘Smalltown Boy’. The Belgian artist has delivered the track as a light dance tune and renamed it ‘Runaway (Smalltown Boy)’. Ryan, who represented Belgium at Eurovision in 2006, has often scored a hit in Europe by updating tracks with a […]
Tags: BEF, Brandon Flowers, British Electric Foundation, Bronski Beat, Dido, Divine Knights, Emelie Simon, Jimmy Somerville, Jose Gonzales, Kate Ryan, Little Boots, Real McCoy, Sharon Corr, Smalltown Boy, The Killers
26 Jul 2015 /
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Getting a spin on the trusty boom box this week are albums from soul singer Jill Scott, who’ll be in Perth soon, the debut album from The Bangles and the first collection of covers from the British Electric Foundation. On Friday mornings we pick three albums from the past, drop them into the cassette player […]
Tags: BEF, British Electric Foundation, Ian Craig Marsh, Jill Scott, Martin Ware, Retro Cassette Friday, Sandie Shaw, The Bangles, Tina Turner
20 Sep 2013 |
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The British Electric Foundation has returned with their fourth album. It’s not often this band release music, but it’s always worth the wait. ‘Dark – Music of Quality and Distinction Volume Three’ sees maestro Martin Ware bringing in some of the biggest singers in the business to record covers tunes. The theme is a focus […]
Tags: BEF, Boy George, British Electric Foundation, Dark, Heaven 17, Human League, Ian Craig Marsh, Iggy Pop, Kim Wilde, Martin Ware, Music of Quality and Distinction, Sandie Shaw, Sarah Jane Morris, Stevie Wonder, Terence Trent D'Arby, The Stooges
25 Aug 2013 |
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Erasure’s lead singer Andy Bell has revealed he’ll be releasing a version of the Kate Bush classic ‘Breathing’. The track is part of the British Electric Foundati0n’s release ‘Dark: Music of Quality and Distinction Volume 3’. The BEF is made up of Martin Ware and Ian Craig Marsh. The duo left British electro band The […]
Tags: Andy Bell, BEF, Briitish Electric Foundation, Erasure, Glenn Gregory, Green Gartside, Heaven 17, Martyn Ware, Sciritti Politti, The Associates, The Human league, Tina Turner, Vince Clarke
15 Mar 2013 |
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