Tootfinder

As recounted in the book "Listening to the Music the Machines Make: Inventing Electronic Pop 1978-1983" by Richard Evans.
A book that's absolutely fantastic by the way, impeccably researched and well-written, and should be on the reading list of anyone who loves OMD, The Human League, Gary Numan, Depeche Mode, Visage etc
#80sMusic

Well here's a little music fact I only just learned. In 1980, the kids' "must watch" Saturday morning BBC TV programme Multi Coloured Swap Shop banned Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark's song Enola Gay because they thought that "gay" in the title was a reference to homosexuality.
#OMD #TOTP #80sMusic

Hold the front page: #TOTP pronounciation SHOCKER!
#80sMusic #DepecheMode

Seeing as pretty much every #80sMusic blog, magazine and other commentary has been pushing the London Records podcast for the last month or so, let's give it a go.
#LondonRecords

Found a page all about the history of the hexagonal-shaped electronic drum kits that were everywhere in the 1980s, and which I was musing about during #TOTP last night.
#80sMusic #drums #Simmons