The Luxury Gap

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Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrateded.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p.137. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. In December 2009, Heaven 17 made appearances at the "Nokia Night of the Proms" in Germany. [19] 2010s [ edit ]

Heaven 17, a new wave synthpop band out of the UK. Two of the original members were in the Human League! Not automatically a head turner as far as music goes but I was interested enough to see their concert when they played as a duo.A return to the experimentalism of The Human League on Geisha Boys And Temple Girls expands Heaven 17’s sonic palette, the provocative Let’s All Make A Bomb bristles with Cold War paranoia. Passions run high here. Political dance music? It just might work you know… Read more: Making Heaven 17’s Penthouse & Pavement The Luxury G ap Heaven 17 albums – The Luxury Gap Berenice Scott Interview". The Electricity Club. 31 January 2013. Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Recovered". 80s Recovered. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015 . Retrieved 13 March 2016. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL ( link) Also during this time Heaven 17 were immersed in the work of their production company B.E.F. (British Electronic Foundation), putting out cover albums such as “Music of Quality & Distinction Volume One” and helping produce Tina Turner’s classic version of the song “Let’s Stay Together” (which has been attributed to reviving her career). Wilson steals the show again on Soul Warfare with Steve Travell providing subtle piano accompaniment. Meanwhile, We’re Going To Live For A Very Long Time is a neat satire of smug high achievers.

The Power Of Love’(Glen solo acoustic) (Frankie Goes to Hollywood cover from 1984 ‘Welcome To The Pleasuredome’ album) The trio convinced their sceptical record company that ‘Temptation’ had to be the next single. A duet between Glenn Gregory and Carol Kenyon, this song of lust, brilliantly framed by a musical structure stormed the charts and remains a momentous classic to this day. The album itself went to reach number 4 and cemented Heaven 17 as one of the most important British post-punk bands.In October 1982, Heaven 17 released their new single " Let Me Go", which charted just outside the UK Top 40 [1] (but reached the Irish Top 30). However, in 1983 the band's fortunes changed. Their next single, " Temptation" (on which they were augmented by vocalist Carol Kenyon and a studio orchestra), reached number 2 on the UK Singles Chart in spring 1983 and became their biggest hit. [1] [7] The song was taken from their second album, The Luxury Gap, which featured further chart hits " Come Live with Me" (UK #5) and " Crushed by the Wheels of Industry" (UK #17). [1] The album itself charted at number 4 on the UK Albums Chart, their highest ever position, [1] and was certified platinum by the BPI in 1984. Cloonan, Martin (1996). Banned: Censorship of Popular Music in Britain: 1967-1992. Ashgate Publishing. p.117. ISBN 1-85742-300-3. Radio 1 remained wary in the political arena and in 1981 its legal department advised Heaven 17 that their hit 'We Don't Need This Fascist Groove Thing' libelled American President Ronald Reagan by calling him a 'fascist'. So the BBC dropped it... Ian Craig Marsh and Martyn Ware were the founding members of pioneering Sheffield synthpop group the Human League; Glenn Gregory (who had previously been in a punk band called Musical Vomit with Marsh) had been their original choice when seeking a lead singer for the band but as he had moved to London to work as a photographer at the time, they chose Ware's school friend Philip Oakey instead. [2] When personal and creative tensions within the group reached a breaking point in late 1980, Marsh and Ware left the band, ceding the Human League name to Oakey. They formed the production company British Electric Foundation (B.E.F.). [1] 1981: B.E.F. and Penthouse and Pavement [ edit ] years later our audience are still loving those songs and we are very excited to be touring our most successful album The Luxury Gap. Come on and jump aboard the Heaven 17-time machine, let’s party like its 1983.” Heaven 17’s UK tour dates:

More Glenn banter followed with the arrival of ‘Let Me Go’, which he informed us was his favourite H17 tune, and I think he said Martyn’s as well. He added that it was written in his then basement flat at 95 Oxford Gardens, Ladbroke Grove. Suffice to say that this single was very well received, and Martyn even thanked the crowd for their appreciation. ‘The Luxury Gap’ album had now been performed, bar standout single ‘Temptation’, which arrived in six tunes time. Next though it was ‘(We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang’, where Glenn recounted their days before the release of this debut single and prior to The Human League. He told us that VDK and the Studs recorded a long version of the ‘Dr Who’ theme and that it was played live when supporting lost Sheffield punk outfit The Drones. Glenn added that years later a fan arrived with a tape of it, and both Martyn and Glenn agreed it was awful, much to tonight’s crowd amusement. HEAVEN 17 and fans at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea 13.11.23 (pics Sara-Louise Bowrey) Heaven 17 are an English synth-pop band formed in Sheffield in 1980. The band were a trio for most of their career, composed of former Human League members Martyn Ware (keyboards, drum machine, vocals) and Ian Craig Marsh (keyboards) with vocalist Glenn Gregory. While the trio never lost their roots as an electronic act, by How Men Are no restrictions were placed on the amount of acoustic and traditional instrumentation that could be included in the mix. Heaven 17 have today announced a very special UK tour to perform their celebrated and acclaimed 1983 album ‘ The Luxury Gap’. The tour includes a Sussex concert which this time around will be at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea on on Monday 13th November. Offiziellecharts.de – Heaven 17 – The Luxury Gap" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 6 December 2020.

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Always conceived of as a studio-based project, Heaven 17 ploughed the money they would have spent in taking a live show out on the road on a string of ambitious videos, highlighting Gregory’s dashing blond good looks in the process: “Glenn was a bit of a big head and incredibly charismatic – perfect frontman material,” Ware once ruefully admitted when reminiscing about his first meeting with the singer at Sheffield experimental art project, Meat Whistle. Dive feels like cultured 90s electronica and the glossy Hi-NRG synth-pop of Another Big Idea is an Erasure-esque contrast to Heaven 17’s tough-sounding earliest work.