It's birthday tributes to Siouxsie And The Banshees, The Cure and The Smiths with music videos and classic interviews of the day, only here on TV at "Living In The '80s!"
Here are the current times for Living In The '80s Episode #10 Features Siouxsie And The Banshees
on Monday May 13th at 10:30 PM PST.
On Monday May 20th, it's two episodes the same day at
4:00 PM PST Ep. #8 features The Cure (1985-90) and
10:30 PM PST Ep. #9 features The Smiths
Happy Birthday to lead singer of The Cure, Robert Smith, celebrating his birthday on April 21st. Robert reflects on his career and early video clips made by The Cure from "10:15 Saturday Night" to "Never Enough" in this two part series. Now on every Monday night.
Here are the current times for Living In The '80's #7: The Cure: "Mixed Up" part 1 4/15/2013 at 10:30 PM 4/29/2013 at 10:30 PM 5/13/2013 at 10:30 PM Here is a link to keep track of future plays.
Living In The '80's #8 The Cure: "Mixed Up" part 2
4/8/2013 at 10:30 PM 4/22/2013 at 10:30 PM 5/6/2013 at 10:30 PM 5/20/2013 at 10:30 PM
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Watch on Comcast channel 27 / Charter cable channel 73 Santa Cruz County only. Streaming online at www.communitytv.org.
Here are the current times for Living In The '80s #5 Features Nina Hagen:
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+ Mon 03/18/13 10:30 PM Channel 27/73
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Living In The '80s #6
+ Sat 03/30/13 03:30 PM Channel 27/73
+ Mon 03/25/13 10:30 PM Channel 27/73
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+ Sun 03/17/13 12:30 AM Channel 27/73
Comcast channel 27/ Charter cable channel 73 Santa Cruz County only. Streaming live at www.communitytv.org
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Although three decades ago he was Britain’s biggest pop star, Adam Ant hasn’t put out an album in 17 years—an unproductive streak that comes to an end with a comeback album this week.
The inevitable “whatever happened to…” questions produce a more interesting than usual answer in Ant’s case: Several times, he’s been admitted to a psychiatric hospital—either of his own accord or by being “sectioned,” as they call involuntary commitment in England. “I’m a bit of a nutcase,” he told the Quietus this month.
His comeback album has an almost Fiona Apple-esque title: Adam Ant is the Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner’s Daughter, which frankly sounds like the kind of thing that someone might come up with during a manic episode. It’s a combination of naval/nautical slang phrases that, in their way, hark back to the new-wave days when Ant dressed up in glam-rock pirate regalia on the covers of albums like Kings of the Wild Frontier, the top-selling British record of 1981. Nowadays he tends to look like a more aged, but no less dapper, Johnny Depp.
Ant believes he’s doing a public service by openly discussing his mental illness as part of the new album’s publicity campaign. “They call it bipolar disorder—that’s the modern term,” he told the Telegraph. “It only means up and down; it used to be manic depression, black dog, whatever. It’s a subject surrounded by a lot of ignorance and taboo. Where I come from, there’s the poorhouse–and worse than that is the madhouse. You should never feel ashamed of it, but you do. A lot of the time you can’t take these problems even to close family because you fear that you’ll alienate them. So anyone in the public eye that comes forward and discusses it, I think it helps.”
Reviews in the UK press for Blueblack Hussar… have been mixed. The Independent gave it four out of five stars, opining that the album is “sprawling, overdue and not for everyone, but at least it's not a play-it-safe comeback with the hot producer of the day. And for that, the Hussar should be saluted.” A less pleased Contactmusic.com wrote that “17 tracks really is too long, particularly when those tracks are largely an uncoordinated mish mash of lo-fi punk throwback, drippy acoustic balladry, Casio keyboard industrial music interpretations and spaghetti western guitars.”
In a three-star review, the Guardian said, “The 17 tracks offer a rickety but entertaining mix of the best elements of his imperial period: tribal glam stomps, razor-slashed T Rex guitars, two-drummer Glitter beats, knowing homages to cult icons (Vince Taylor and Vivienne Westwood) and sex... While nothing quite reaches the dizzy heights of 'Antmusic,’ ‘Shrink’–a perhaps autobiographical romp about a man who needs medication to feel normal–is as riotous as he's sounded in three decades.”
In 1995, he released what looked for a long time like it might be his final album, Wonderful, whose title song peaked at an unremarkable No. 32 in his home country but did make it to No. 7 on the modern-rock chart in America.
He published an autobiography, Stand & Deliver, in 2006. Several spates of touring in Europe (and, briefly, America) in recent years resulted in mostly positive notices. And there is a forthcoming documentary, made by Jamie Reynolds of the Klaxons, which Ant describes as “quite raw and brutal... It culminates with me playing with Rod Stewart in Hyde Park in front of 100,000 people."
