Sigue Sigue Sputnik
11 articles
Audio interviews
Interview by Julian Henry, Rock's Backpages audio, 23 August 1985
In Part 1, Sigue Sigue founder Tony James talks about the influence of sic-fi movies like Blade Runner and Terminator etc.; the death of old rock clichés; using video and TV, and the mistakes of punk in general and his former Gen X bandmate Billy Idol in particular. In Part 2, Sputnik frontman Martin Degville on the band's style; his wigs; popular fashion, and how his former flatmate Boy George is too safe...
File format: mp3; in two parts, total file size: 57.9mb, total interview length: 1h 01' 01" sound quality: **
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Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Fuzzbox, Black Elvis 2000: National Ballroom, Kilburn, London
Live Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 5 April 1986
THERE'D BEEN rumours circulating all day that trouble was brewing. The police were outside, people were being searched on the way in... but I needn't ...
Sigue Sigue Sputnik: The First Generation (Jungle)
Review by Chris Roberts, Melody Maker, 30 June 1990
EVEN THE press release, once a glittering example of how to flaunt what you only very disputably have, have bashfully clammed down to a tail-between-the-legs ...
Live Review by David Quantick, New Musical Express, 15 March 1986
AHA! IT's the most reviled band in the world!Sigue Sigue Sputnik and Reading were not a marriage made in Heaven. When one is the subject ...
Sigue Sigue Sputnik: Abbey Road Studio, London
Live Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 4 January 1986
SPUT THE DOGS ...
Sigue Sigue Sputnik: Flaunt It
Review by John McCready, New Musical Express, 2 August 1986
AS STUPID as they are, the British public can take a joke if you give them a punchline to go with it. They bought Malcolm ...
Sigue Sigue Sputnik: The Underworld, Croydon
Live Review by Julian Henry, Melody Maker, 17 August 1985
Space race ...
Sigue Sigue Sputnik: This Band Needs No Introduction – They Write Their Own
Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, February 1986
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Sigue Sigue Sputnik: Hope Against Hype
Interview by Mal Peachey, Time Out, 8 March 1989
Sigue Sigue Sputnik were the biggest hype of the '80s, their huge hairstyles and huger lies sweeping all before them — until the backlash. Mal ...
Sigue Sigue Sputnik: Starry-Eyed & Laughing
Report and Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 8 March 1986
YOU FIND yourself reading about them...It's been a long day, and it isn't over yet. The two juiciest members of Sigue Sigue Sputnik – pronounced ...
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Smash Hits, 12 March 1986
"A lot of people are going to hate Sigue Sigue Sputnik," says their bass player and boss Tony James. "Because we're not into being miserable ...
see also Generation X
see also Carbon/Silicon
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