We are exponents of electronic synthpop; influenced by, but with unique twists on a combination of – The sumptuousities & glam of classic English Hammer movies & The Human league’s dark melancholic gallows humour, as if cast into a Sapphire and Steel universe of endless possibility and danger. 

We play pared-down pagan beats with a solemn promise of NO drum solos, mixed with analogue 80s synths with NO presets, reggae connotations, Eno sound splurge, semi-baritone space disco. We are Exponents of Modern Retro Futuristist POP. Dance music set to words. We are annoyed by the restriction death may impose on our creative ambitions.

We are distopiarna – Stories within stories with a throbbing pop heartbeat, electronic to the core, but still caught plundering such diversities as goth, disco and post punk. Lyrical reality cloaked in daggers. 

We are the modern horror of existence without a Poe face, We are space invaders. We are a beautiful wolferine coagulation of juxtaposition – millennial twisters with cheeky tongues, come fall helpless into our Labyrinth, we dare thee! 

Apparently we are… 

The Freshest sound this side of Powder Ridge, even John Lydon would like it”

– Pete Jones (Bass) – PIL, Dept S, Brian Brain

Our songs… Can be dark, but they can also be ‘Don’t you want me’ pop too. 

Our current playlist would feature: Hula, Fritz Catlin, Wolfgang Flur, Pete Shelley, Cabaret Voltaire, Boney M, KLF, Prince, Primal Scream, Eno, Scritti, Soft Cell, Human League, Sparks, Joyce Simms, Nitzer Ebb, Waeve, Trentmoller, Lone Lady, Wooze, Siouxsie, Sheffield Tape Archive (bandcamp), The Creeping Bent Organisation.

So why do people look for a category to put us in? If the music and emotion generated does it for your trousers?!… Sparks have been doing this for 50 years!

Some of our previous career highlights have included…

• Jump – Funkatrium (90s Dance chart Number 1) regularly featured on BBC6 Music
• The Scratch – (versus cancer 2007) M.E.N arena with Charlatans, Noel Gallagher, Paul Weller, Echo & The Bunnymen. Endorsed by Clint Boon, John Robb, Marco Pirroni
• Rogue Sector – Nico (spare the words) Collaboration from the grave
• The Tuesday Club – 6 Music, Q Magazine, Sky TV
• Reverse Family – 365 songs released one a day for a year 2017-18