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Elvis Costello: Eivis Costello and the Attractions: Pavilion, West Runton

Live Review by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 8 March 1980

Fly me I'm Elvis! ...

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Call Tom Petty The New Springsteen And He'll Cut You!

Interview by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 15 March 1980

THE PICCADILLY Hotel in Manchester is an anonymous modern structure slipped neatly inside a multi-storey car park — an injection of glass and concrete at ...

Secret Rocker, Material, dBs, The, Bongos, The, Bush Tetras, The, Revelons, The, Fleshtones, The: Greetings from NYC: My Week As A Worm In The Big Apple

Report by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 6 September 1980

AS LUCK would have it, my plane ticket to New York City's JFK Airport is open and coincides with the two major jawing topics obsessing ...

Robert Palmer: Clues (Island)

Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 6 September 1980

WHY 'CLUES'? I mean to say, Robert old chap, it's not as if there's some burning question to all this despite the wacky covershot of ...

Associates, The: The Associates: Boys Keep Scoring

Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 27 September 1980

THERE'S SOMETHING a little odd about Billy Mackenzie. When he was younger, he says, his friends used to think that he was crazy. Mental. ...

Girlschool: Black Leather at St Trinians

Report and Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 2 May 1981

GIRLSCHOOL FRENZY GRIPS THE COUNTRY AS ADOLESCENT BOYS DISCOVER THEIR VERY OWN ROCK'N'ROLL SEX SYMBOLS. PAUL MORLEY TAKES A MANLY LOOK AT THIS CRAZY PHENOMENON. ...

British Electric Foundation, Heaven 17, Human League, The: The Human League: In the Battle for Gallactic Supremacy — Humans Beleaguered

Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 2 May 1981

Life in the League with only one haircut between them ...

ABC: Moonlight Club, London

Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 16 May 1981

ABRACADABRA! ABC show up in London. Another banal crew of slight white boys clumsily revising their dance style for the sake of summer attention? A ...

Spandau Ballet: Spandaus Invade America!

Report by Richard Grabel, New Musical Express, 16 May 1981

Robin Hadley and his Merrie Men take Sherwood Forest futurism to a very small but extremely chic club in New York. RICHARD GRABEL joins the ...

Echo & The Bunnymen: Long Day's Journey Into Oslo — Tales From A Norwegian Wood

Report and Interview by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 27 June 1981

MAX BELL TRAVELS TO NORWAY WITH THE BUNNYMEN ...

Duran Duran: Duran Duran (EMI)

Review by Chris Bohn, New Musical Express, 4 July 1981

D'RONE D'RONE ...

Love, Arthur Lee: Arthur Lee: The Daily Planet Revisited

Interview by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 8 August 1981

ARTHUR LEE, THE PSYCHO OF '60s PSYCHEDELIA AND FORMER LEADER OF LOVE, BREAKS HIS SILENCE TO KEEP A RARE APPOINTMENT ON PLANET EARTH ...

Gary Numan: Dance (Beggars Banquet)

Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 5 September 1981

"These New Romantics are oh so boring I could swear I've been there once or twice before" ('Moral') ...

Fad Gadget: Fadfoolery and Frank Confessions

Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 23 January 1982

Paul Morley encounters Frank Tovey on the verge of failure, and Fad Gadget on the point of hysteria. So why is this a succesful combination? ...

Culture Club: The Boy's Own Club

Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 1 May 1982

PAUL MORLEY MEETS A BOY CALLED GEORGE — FORMER MODEL, BOW WOW WOW SINGER AND NOW FOUNDER OF A NEW MUSICAL EXPERIENCE, THE CULTURE CLUB. ...

Robyn Hitchcock: Phantom of Psychedelia

Interview by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 8 May 1982

RICHARD COOK follows the Robyn Hitchcock guide to transport — physical, mechanical, mental and musical. ...

Associates, The: The Associates: Sulk (Associates/WEA/Beggars Banquet etc.)

Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 15 May 1982

BUTTERFLY BAWLS ...

Art Ensemble Of Chicago: Urban Bushmen (ECM)

Review by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 29 May 1982

BURNING BUSHMEN ...

Sylvester: Woofers And Tweeters

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 25 September 1982

HAD I BEEN expecting some shimmering trans-sexual diva to sweep into the room like a hostess into her salon, the rotund, maternal figure who welcomed ...

Depeche Mode, Fad Gadget: Ace Cinema, Brixton

Live Review by Mat Snow, New Musical Express, 8 January 1983

SOME OF the many moods of Mute were on show tonight. Label mates Depeche Mode and Fad Gadget would appear to be polar opposites, but ...