Blue Plate Special Archives – Page 3 of 9

August 10, 2024

Blue Plate Special: The Housemartins

The Housemartins were an English alternative rock group from Hull, active between 1983 and 1988. Initially formed by Paul Heaton...

August 3, 2024

Echo & the Bunnymen, an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1978, quickly emerged as one of the most...

July 27, 2024

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) is an iconic English electronic band founded in 1978 by Andy McCluskey and Paul...

July 20, 2024

Crowded House, formed in 1985 in Melbourne, Australia, by New Zealander Neil Finn and Australians Paul Hester and Nick Seymour,...

July 13, 2024

Siouxsie and the Banshees, formed in 1976 in London by Siouxsie Sioux and Steven Severin, emerged as pivotal figures in...

July 6, 2024

ABC, an iconic English pop band originating from Sheffield in 1980, featured Martin Fry as the lead vocalist, Mark White...

June 29, 2024

The Mighty Lemon Drops were formed in the spring of 1985 in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England just outside of Birmingham....

June 22, 2024

Stuart Leslie Goddard, better known as Adam Ant, is an English singer, musician, and actor who rose to prominence as...

June 15, 2024

Abecedarians were a Los Angeles-based post-punk trio that made waves in the mid to late 1980s. Comprised of Chris Manecke...

June 8, 2024

Peter Murphy is an iconic singer, songwriter, and musician, renowned as the frontman for the influential post-punk/goth rock band Bauhaus....