In the constant search of music obsessing with being machine like, let‘s segue to 1979 and a music act called Godley & Creme (G&C) and their seminal hi tech piece — an Englishman in New York. Not the crap Sting version. Prior to their Strange apparatus G&C were in a band called 10cc.

Once they gave up singing pop songs G&C then started directing music video clips. Their work started with a bang — Rock it by Herbie Hancock, continuing with highlights that include Girls on Film by Duran Duran, and Fade to Grey by Visage. The G&C duo have been doing-what-love since the late 1950s.

It has been 23 years since Weller‘s last farewell in Australian and after playing for over 1 1/2 hours, a final encore rocked, in Melbourne that is, to the beat of the mod anthem — A Town like Malice. Travel well.

Vince and Howard inspire the studio to rocket towards the fantastic future with their Numanesque crossed with Human League romp. After unsuccessful auditions last week with Chase & Galley, and Tin & Ed (Tin was a no show). One can‘t understand why the 3 Deep boys, Fabio, Vince, or Round continues to ignore our passionate invitation to team up and cut our own futuristic version of — Tie me Kangaroo down.

Important work for the design industry calls — turn that Olympic coverage off at your studios, more important matters need your urgent attention.

The second track from Thomas Dolby‘s third critically poo-poo’d LP “Aliens ate my Buick“ released in in 1988. The AirHead clip is an unexpected piece of puppetry, remenissent of Talking Head‘s “Stop making sense” video.

Dolby has many strings to his bow, including developing the curious signature polyphonic ring for Nokia, playing the atmospheric synths on Foreigner‘s romantic romp “I‘ve been waiting for a girl like you“ — a very popular last song in many Melbourne gay nightclubs and being sued by the Dolby Laboratories for using Dolby as his pseudonym.

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