In late 1984, following the recording of the Racer-X EP, Pezzati amicably left the band due to his increasingly demanding job, the need to devote time to his fiancée, and the increasing popularity and busy schedule of Naked Raygun, of which he was still a member. Durango, meanwhile, opted to…
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In 1985, the group re-formed as a ” beat combo ” (a joking reference to early 1960s beat music ), with greater use of electronic musical instruments . Wire announced that they would perform none of their older material, hiring Ex-Lion Tamers (a Wire cover band from Hoboken, New Jersey…
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Tom Larkin and Jon Toogood formed Exit in 1985 in Wellington with various short-term fellow school members. Larkin and Toogood had met at Wellington High School , and shared an interest in heavy metal. They were generally found in the school’s music room, as Toogood later recalled, “That’s where we…
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Part of Big Black’s local unpopularity stemmed from Albini and the vitriol he regularly directed at Chicago’s rock scene: by 1985, the Metro Chicago was the only club in the city that was booking punk rock shows and was also large enough to accommodate Big Black, but after performing there…
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KMFDM was officially founded in Paris, France, on February 29, 1984, as a performance art project between Sascha Konietzko and German painter and multimedia artist Udo Sturm at the opening of an exhibition of young European artists at the Grand Palais . The first show consisted of Sturm playing an…
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having formed on February 29, 1984
When Imai graduated high school, he moved to Tokyo with Araki and enrolled in a design school. Sakurai’s parents would not let him move to the capital. However, Imai and Araki returned home on weekends for band practice. During the summer of 1984, Hinan Go-Go changed their name to Buck-Tick,…
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Cassette copies of the band’s demo album, Opium , began circulating through the underground clubs and bars of Hamburg in 1984.
Albini believed that Big Black had nothing to gain by adopting the usual corporate trappings of rock bands: “If you don’t use contracts, you don’t have any contracts to worry about. If you don’t have a tour rider, you don’t have a tour rider to argue about. If you don’t…
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Imai named their band Hinan Go-Go ( 非難GO-GO ; “Criticism Go-Go”) in the spring of 1984. Once they had practiced enough to be able to play, they began to perform live at small, local events. They started out playing covers of songs by the famous Japanese punk band The Stalin…
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