Blancmange Private View London Records Over 40 years ago Neil Arthur and Stephen Luscombe came together to form Blancmange and released their debut album Happy Families of London Records. In 1985, after three albums, the duo split and reunited [...]
AN IDEA OF WHAT COLOUR SOUNDS LIKE A CONVERSATION WITH FADER Fader made their debut in 2017 with the brilliant album, First Light. The band was and is a duo consisting of Neil Arthur (Blancmange, Near Future) and Ben Edwards, known as Benge [...]
Fader Quartz Blanc Check Records Fader is a duo, consisting of Neil Arthur (Blancmange/Near Future) and Benge (Wrangler, Creep Show and John Foxx And The Maths). Quartz is their third album, following 2019’s brilliant In Shadow. Benge also [...]
IT’S FIVE TO FIVE AND TIME FOR CRACKERJACK! A CONVERSATION WITH NEIL ARTHUR OF BLANCMANGE “I’m busy, but it’s what I do, really. In a way, it’s kind of an escape and also a way for me coping with everything that is going on. I run into my [...]
Blancmange Commercial Break Blanc Check Records Commercial Break is Blancmange’s 14th album, and their second 2021 release since (Nil By Mouth III was released in March). Blancmange is really Neil Arthur, working, once again, with Benge. Here, [...]
WHEN IT COMES TO ONE TO ONE, COMMUNICATION CAN BE VERY DIFFICULT A CONVERSATION WITH NEIL ARTHUR OF BLANCMANGE I can’t think of many artists who consistently and frequently put out such high quality material. In fact, with each release, Neil [...]
Blancmange Mindset Blanc Check Records The new Blancmange album opens with the title track, “Mindset”, and following a minute-long musical introduction, the unmistakable voice of Neil Arthur sings “Unlike Wednesday this day is focused/There [...]
THE ADMIRATION OF WHITE PLASTIC CHAIRS A CONVERSATION WITH NEIL ARTHUR OF BLANCMANGE “I was just outside with my daughter, she is home from university, and we were just doing a skipping competition to see who can do the most and she was beating [...]
Blancmange Waiting Room (Volume 1) Blanc Check Records Over the last nine years, Neil Arthur has been releasing records under the Blancmange banner, and although he has had many artists playing with him on the records, it really is his project. [...]
GET UP, TEA, WALK OUTSIDE, SHOWER, WATER, EAT TOAST, COFFEE, WORK, COFFEE, WALK, EAT BEANS OR SOUP (ORANGE), WORK, WORK, WORK, WALK, EAT, DRINK, STOP, SLEEP, REPEAT A CONVERSATION WITH FADER While the members of Fader may not agree, the band is [...]
Fader In Shadow Blanc Check Records In Shadow is Fader’s second album and they just keep getting better. Although their debut was more than impressive, with In Shadow they knock it out of the park. From beginning to end this is more than an [...]
Blancmange Wanderlust Blanc Check Records Wanderlust is the sixth album released by Blancmange since original member, and one half of the band, Stephen Luscombe left the band due to health issues. Neil Arthur has carried on with the name, and [...]
FINDING HIS IDEAL HOME A CONVERSATION WITH NEIL ARTHUR OF NEAR FUTURE/BLANCMANGE Neil Arthur may just be the hardest working musician in the world today. He is currently in three bands, Fader, Near Future and, of course, Blancmange. Arthur [...]
Near Future Ideal Home Blanc Check Records Neil Arthur has been very busy of late. Since the fall of 2017 he wrote and produced the most recent Blancmange album (the brilliant Unfurnished Rooms), as well as put together the box set of [...]
Blancmange Unfurnished Rooms Blanc Check Records Blancmange is Neil Arthur, or Neil Arthur is Blancmange. Since Stephen Luscombe left the band (the other original member) due to health reasons, Arthur has carried the torch and continued on under [...]
TRANSLATING PICTURES INTO SOUNDS A CONVERSATION WITH NEIL ARTHUR OF BLANCMANGE When I tell Neil Arthur, of Blancmange, that he is one of the hardest working musicians/artists that I know of, he just laughs. “I am happiest when I am working, it [...]
Blancmange (Box Set) The Blanc Tapes Edsel Recording In 1981 I bought a sampler album called Some Bizzare Album. There were a lot of incredible bands on the album, The The, Soft Cell and Depeche Mode. But there was one song by a new band named [...]
Fader First Light Blanc Check First Light is the debut album from Fader, which is the latest project from Neil Arthur (from Blancmange fame) and Benge (Ben Edwards) who is known for his work in electronic music, especially as part of John Foxx [...]
