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At that moment, I was drawing lines into New York and the Velvets, European avant garde and electronic music, previous generation’s Brit Psychedelia plus a ragged sort of insulting glam. Kicked everyone into action at a desperate moment. They proved it was possible to be trashy and good at the same time. Then The New York Dolls arrived and galvanised the entire scene. “We were all floating around London forming and reforming bands and trying new things out. The band were influenced heavily by the New York Dolls and dressed like them. Their true first show was at the Marquee supporting the Heavy Metal Kids. In 1974, as a four-piece band without Billy Curry, Tiger Lily made their first gig in Chorley, Lancashire, hometown of the erstwhile Dennis Leigh. We weren’t gigging, so it didn’t matter.” That was a time when we had a name every week: The Zips, Fire of London. had this décor from the Fifties and a picture of a woman on the back of a tiger. “We didn’t have a name and I couldn’t think of one. The name Tiger Lily was drummer Warren Cann’s idea, as Foxx recalled in a 2016 interview with The Arts Desk: The band was formed on the initiative of vocalist and songwriter Dennis Leigh (who later went on to change his name to John Foxx). He cut his teeth with synthesisers in the 1970s whilst on a scholarship at the RCA in London, where he formed his first band Woolly Fish.įrom 1974 until 1979, the Lancastrian-born singer was the frontman and the main driving force behind both Tiger Lily and later, Ultravox! The initial line-up comprised Dennis Leigh plus Chris Allen on bass guitar, Stevie Shears on guitar with Warren Cann on drums and Billy Currie on violin.
They later went on to become Ultravox! before eventually ditching the exclamation mark and going on to greater fame. Ultravox was originally formed in the early 1970s and were originally presented under the name, Tiger Lily. New Wave is precisely what it was – and precisely what was needed at that moment.” – John Foxx. I guess this was the start of the New Wave.
“At that moment, I was drawing lines into New York and the Velvets, European avant garde and electronic music, previous generation’s Brit Psychedelia plus a ragged sort of insulting glam. ❉ Oh, Vienna! We Are Cult’s resident synthpop queen Ange Chan offers a rough guide to Ultravox.
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