Blancmange - "Live at The Garage, London - 15 November 2013 (Happy Families Too Tour)" | dsoaudio

[@irenegoldie4774]

I never understood why these guys aren't better known. Seriously, listen to that voice - it's fantastic!

[@dsoaudio]

Irene Goldie Totally!

[@iggydip]

One of my favourite singers ever. His voice and Stephen Luscombes keys just made for something special..

[@richardrickford3028]

It is also a voice that has a lot of range - from the darkly comic to the deeply emotional. One of the really good things about the lyrics to blancmange songs is that sometimes they have this really off beat dead pan humour to them. A classic example of this is "By the bus stop at Wollies" of the album Blancburn. Though the lyrics to "Making Aeroplanes" which is off a compilation called "The best of blancmange" is also great as well - especially the way they rhyme "off to the chippie" with "confess you're a hippie"

[@TheArtist8077]

I remember 1982 like it was yesterday, loved this group.

[@JaniceLalla]

Phenomenal

[@ScrittiSparkle]

still amazing vocally,and still handsome as he ever was

[@eduardorivera4343]

Looks better now actually.

[@presleyslave]

He’s incredibly gorgeous and so talented.

[@eduardorivera4343]

Great Concert Thanks for sharing.

[@dsoaudio]

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[@ScrittiSparkle]

still gorgeous after all these years,love blancmange

[@MultiMrMiles]

in the 80s we lived 1000% it was incredible...new times are very empty....

[@richardrickford3028]

Check out Unfurnished Rooms and Wanderlust - both brilliant albums. More people need to be aware of the amazing Blancmange rennaisance there has been. I suspect their stuff is just too good to be in the charts (or at least the mainstream ones)

[@ScrittiSparkle]

hes so handsome

[@tommyprado9142]

They are excellent....very original.....

[@fraji1]

Still have my vinyl . They are great.

[@markparnell5914]

The coolest thing beside the music is just how grounded they have remained. Seriously, how many other artists openly encourage fans to approach and talk to them.

[@allthethingsshesaidshesaid3923]

Feel Me Now - (~14:22min) was Great! It's as intense as when recorded in the 80s!

[@dsoaudio]

Yeah - I totally agree - superb performance!

[@pinkstrumpet]

Very good vocal and performance all the way through Neil, very amusing. :-)

[@ScrittiSparkle]

gorgeous

[@wreckage-vs5jv]

you wonder why they didn't go big like DM on the other hand it tells how great the 80s must have been

[@juliehealingleaf6211]

It had to do with some CV contract stuff I think preventing them air time in states not sure at the time I liked all the stuff out of england in the 80s

[@punkybrewstershubby]

thank you for posting this.

[@discodroidz429]

booked tickets for the garage 18/3/16. the mans a genius. EDM pioneer.

[@ScrittiSparkle]

i fantasise

[@gojump7]

They don't play in the US often (or ever?) Sad because there are a lot of fans here who would *LOVE* a Blancmange concert!!!

[@gojump7]

Rather than hope and wait for Blancmange to perform in the US, I am travelling soon to see them perform 2 concerts in the UK! *I CANNOT WAIT*

[@gojump7]

So *amazing* in concert! Saw them in Bilston/Wolverhampton and Gloucester. A dream come true!

[@gojump7]

And I saw them again in London and Liverpool earlier this year.

[@ScrittiSparkle]

i wish i could

[@rickwoold]

I've been listening to all there old tracks I've had from years gone by ....... fantastic. even this live set However the new studio versions have lost there soul :( Over produced ) This live video however did relit my love for you !!!

[@dsoaudio]

Glad you enjoyed it richard wooldridge . Blancmange live today are just fantastic. Just a shame Luscombe is too ill to participate. :-(

[@blackdogfive]

must recover vinyl! Thank-You for the video and the T=Talent . Toronto/Canada 80's> Meet you at the Copa

[@dsoaudio]

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[@diggerwhippet7593]

got tickets for telford with h17... cant wait

[@dsoaudio]

Saw the London night of that on Thursday. A great evening. I filmed most of it - so look out for that on here too! Subcribe to you don't miss it :-)

[@emilianosanchez9880]

Cheers from America. I luckily stumbled upon this Garage show because I had a strong need to hear Blamcmange's wordy gem "See The Train" I have been a true fan since a young lad. Owning many imported 12 inch singles purchased with money earned by washing cars and mowing many lawns in my neighborhood. At 11 years young in the year of our lord ninteenthousand and eighty one, I just had to know what a "Blamcmange" was and why did this unique Tall & Short music duo decide on naming their band after a French pastry made from boiled milk.To this day, I have never received a fulfilling answer, So with that said, Mind gripping unanswered wonderment grips the back of my mind, which I can without a doubt hold responsible for the many times when I had drove thru a Red traffic light. Ahhhh, I am just being a bit cheeky there for a laugh,.But in all seriousness.What I did receive from Blamcmange was a magic connection to their music and it being a grand part and added to my life's musical soundtrack.To this very day it still excites me to hear it, breath it, and live it, just as it did so many years ago. So, if the word ageless is the cornerstone that defies something as "Classic".....then that is what I will call it, and just leave it at that.After viewing this little Garage gig, I was pleased to "hear" that that strong articulate voice has not rusted, cracked or become lost over the years, but has richly matured. As in the case with Leonard Cohen, by leaving his fans with his last and most well heeled and sexiest albums of his carreer at the very young age of 92 as if to say to his desiples , " Im just getting warmed up" Very glad to have seen this perfomance and witness new material. I would have been more pleased however if this perfomance had been presented by a Blamcmange film and sound crew. Finer sound, various quality camera angles I'm sure would have been strategically applied, resulting into a much more engaging gig for those of us unfortunate to be there. But instead, we got this.... garbled interuptions, hooting, hollering laughter, drunken babble all while a performance was undrway...removing all the distracting loudness from the crowd would have been priority one, resulting into a class act production, had my suggestion been applied. Maybe next time. If you care to see a beautiful example of how a well disciplined and respectful audience behaves, please take a look at Karl Hyde's live performance of "8 Ball" at London's Chapel theater. My gift to you. You can thank me later.

[@gojump7]

Emiliano Sanchez I usually skip long comments but I read through yours and wholeheartedly agree with your comments about Neil’s amazing current voice quality and the annoying noisy audience members. The distractions have not kept me from listening to this dozens of times though. I’ve had to learn to tune it out, even the comment from someone saying that he reckons “David Rhodes looks like a younger version of Lou Reed”... lol

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[@dsoaudio]

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[@kingwithoutacrown1]

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[@TheGodParticle]

I concur, totally incredible, great, beautiful, etc etc etc. Music of my teenage years. Cheers people

[@dsoaudio]

TheGodParticle You are very welcome

[@gojump7]

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[@juliehealingleaf6211]

he did the cosby dance we all do that once we hit a certain age lol

[@dsoaudio]

Oh dear! Will we all meet that fate?!

[@juliehealingleaf6211]

lol

[@dsoaudio]

Still, making music this good - you've got to cut the guy some slack

[@juliehealingleaf6211]

oh I love it I meant it in a good way :) it's a good dance groove :)

[@dsoaudio]

:-)

[@ScrittiSparkle]

get in touch neil x

[@marc-paulparis6042]

this is real trance music,....It got so much better in ....25 years.....His vvvvvvvvvoice reminds me of .... a shaman

[@dsoaudio]

Marc-Paul Paris Very incisive comments - I totally agree! The performance was hypnotic. Superb. DId you see our review of the gig? : www.dso.co.uk/gig238.htm

[@marc-paulparis6042]

Not yet dsaudio, but I'm looking forward for a live album (on internet?)..if you ever know about it ...thanks a lot for posting!!!

[@dsoaudio]

Stay Tuned!

[@gojump7]

@@dsoaudio Great review!

[@cnfuzz]

Saw them during blancburn , opened with an amazing intense ' i cant explain' , sadly the vst sounds killed the arrangement of game above my head , blancmange needs analog synths for the set

[@ScrittiSparkle]

stilll gaugous,hey neil

[@ScrittiSparkle]

sway be lovely

[@gojump7]

*WHO* are these people *_TALKING_* during this amazing performance? If I were in that audience I would've been so annoyed.

[@jlsutton4819]

I hate it when people talk & shout at concerts. They so annoy me.

[@matthewwilliams8311]

Twats

[@muesli4597]

I’m so lucky, I saw them at the Lyceum in London. Hair standing up on back of neck . Just a duo then . Drum machine mangling my intestines. Atmosphere was electric.

[@muesli4597]

P.S. the audience in this video wasn’t born then.

[@ScrittiSparkle]

id love to date neil ,xx

[@merboyontiveros5297]

Focus

[@jackgahan149]

AND STEPHEN LUSCOMBE?

[@doveronefoxtrot4417]

Would have been nice if it was in focus.

[@ScrittiSparkle]

neil ,say hello to me lol

[@williamtaylor874]

Pissed?

[@ScrittiSparkle]

be mine please

[@hoagy_ytfc]

Wow, this version of Waves is obscenely bad. Shame, it's by far my favourite Blancmange song. You can tell he knows how bad it is at 34:05 - he's singing a different bit than the sequencer is playing

[@garyjesusneiragarrido829]

Manjar blanco para el pan, tienen como 4 temas buenos el resto es rara la música, lo mismo lo que le pasa a moloko como 4 temas buenos.

[@chrissouthall411]

No "lose your love" .. I AM dissapoint