Altered Images

Altered Images: Corn Exchange, Cambridge

Live Review by Johnny Black, Smash Hits, November 1981

THE ELEMENTS were conspiring against Altered Images from the moment they took the stage of Cambridge's cavernous Corn Exchange. The sound went immediately out of ...

Altered Images: The Altered State Of Pop Art

Live Review by Paul Morley, NME, February 1982

Altered Images: Hammersmith Palais, London ...

Altered Images: Happy Birthday (Portrait/Epic)

Review by Robot A. Hull, Creem, May 1982

ALTERED IMAGES' debut album is an unforeseen delight: a surprise party where the kids play whatever games strike their fancies. During the din of celebration, ...

Altered Images: Pinky Blue (Epic)

Review by Lynden Barber, Melody Maker, May 1982

IF THE jolly-jolly blancmange and Jellytot frills on the cover of Happy Birthday didn't, like the kid at the party who stuffed all the eClares, ...

Altered Images: Pinky Blue (Epic)***

Review by Betty Page, Sounds, May 1982

DA DOO doo doo, da da da da, is all I have to say to you. Da da da da, do doo doo doo, that's ...

Altered Images: Pinky Blue

Review by Mitchell Cohen, Creem, January 1983

CLARE GROGAN has this itsy little boop-be-doop of a voice, and she twists phrases into odd curlicues while her four-piece band plays zesty, danceable (mustn't ...

Clare Grogan's Altered Images: Thank Heaven For Little Girls

Interview by Iman Lababedi, Creem, January 1983

"I just wanted to get to know her, really. She was just kind of fascinating."— Director Bill Forsyth, explaining why he cast Clare Grogan in ...

Clare Grogan

Interview by Paul Lester, Uncut, March 1998

Clare Grogan "arrived" in 1980, with Gregory's Girl and Altered Images – the group had a series of hit singles ('Happy Birthday', 'Don't Talk To ...

The Here And Now Tour: Many Happy Returns

Report and Interview by Pete Paphides, Guardian, The, March 2003

To some, the Here And Now Tour is a has-beens cabaret, to others it's a harmless trip down memory lane. Peter Paphides reports from the ...