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Terminal Power Company
Terminal Power Company was a British alternative music band. History Formed in 1989 in Birmingham, England, by Paul Aspel and John Roome, designed specifically to be a "cyberpunk band", the band cited many diverse visual influences on their music. Amongst these were William Gibson, John Shirley - Authors, Blade Runner, Aliens, Spaghetti Westerns and Film Noir. Essentially the band was formed to create virtual sound tracks for these types of films and books. Their first demo tapes were received well and in early 1990 TPC signed to Situation Two and soon released their first single "Wired" (SIT 80). Following the release of "Wired" they signed a three-album contract with Beggars Banquet Records. The band spent two weeks during November 1990 recording their first album ''Run Silent, Run Deep'', which was released in early 1991 and was well received by the press. The album was soon followed by the single "The Hunger, The Heat", and later that year the second single from the album, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birmingham
Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West Midlands metropolitan county, and approximately 4.3 million in the wider metropolitan area. It is the largest UK metropolitan area outside of London. Birmingham is known as the second city of the United Kingdom. Located in the West Midlands region of England, approximately from London, Birmingham is considered to be the social, cultural, financial and commercial centre of the Midlands. Distinctively, Birmingham only has small rivers flowing through it, mainly the River Tame and its tributaries River Rea and River Cole – one of the closest main rivers is the Severn, approximately west of the city centre. Historically a market town in Warwickshire in the medieval period, Birmingham grew during the 18th century during the Midla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Run Silent, Run Deep (album)
''Run Silent, Run Deep'' is the first album by Terminal Power Company. It was recorded in two weeks in November 1990, for the Beggars Banquet sub-label Situation Two. The album was recorded at Expresso Bongo studios in Taworth and was partly mixed by Paul Speare, former saxophonist with Dexys Midnight Runners. The album feature samples from various Science fiction movies, notably Blade Runner and Akira. Track listing # "The Hunger, the Heat" - 3:16 # "Deeper" - 3:35 # "Salvation" - 3:38 # "Slow Motion Riot" - 3:20 # "Burning Chrome" - 3:05 # "Ice" - 1:11 # "Blood, Flesh and Sand" - 3:32 # "Fire" - 3:00 # "Getting the Fear" - 3:39 # "Wired II" - 3:10 # "Urban Psycho" - 7:00 Personnel *Paul Aspel *John Roome John Roome (born 26 August 1968, a.k.a. Witchman) is a hip hop/breakbeat artist who has worked with The Orb and The Jungle Brothers. Having completed the score on five movies (''Messengers'', ''Dead End Road'', '' Song of Songs'', ''Want'' an ... *Matt Waddle (assistant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1989 Establishments In The United Kingdom
File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxon Valdez oil tanker runs aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska, causing a large oil spill; The Fall of the Berlin Wall begins the downfall of Communism in Eastern Europe, and heralds German reunification; The United States invades Panama to depose Manuel Noriega; The Singing Revolution led to the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania from the Soviet Union; The stands of Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, Yorkshire, where the Hillsborough disaster occurred; Students demonstrate in Tiananmen Square, Beijing; many are killed by forces of the Chinese Communist Party., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake rect 200 0 400 200 World Wide Web rect 400 0 600 200 Exxon Valdez oil spill rect 0 200 300 400 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TPC 1995
TPC may refer to: Organizations * Tax Policy Center, for US tax analysis * Technology Professionals Canada * Texas Professional Communicators * Transaction Processing Performance Council, developing benchmark specifications for database systems * Tropical Prediction Center, of the US National Hurricane Center * TPC Group, a petrochemicals manufacturing company based in Houston, Texas, US * Taiwan Police College, a police academy in Taiwan * The Pokémon Company * Carabinieri Art Squad or (), a law enforcement division in Italy Science and technology * Table per Concrete Class, an inheritance strategy for Entity Framework * Time projection chamber, a type of particle detector * Tough-pitch copper, a type of copper cable * Trans Pacific Cable, a series of Pacific Ocean undersea cables * Transmitter Power Control, for IEEE 802.11h-2003 WLAN * Two-pore channel, an ion channel Sports * Tournament Players Championship, an earlier name of The Players Championship * Tournament Playe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MTV Europe
MTV Global (formerly as MTV Europe) is the international version of the American TV channel MTV, a 24-hour music and entertainment TV channel that began broadcasting on August 1, 1987, as part of the worldwide MTV network. Initially, MTV served all regions of Europe, being one of the few TV channels focused on the entire European market. At the moment, MTV serves a number of European countries, African, Asian, Oceanian, Middle Eastern, Latin American and Caribbean territories. Over the years, MTV Global has been divided into many different channels for certain countries. Most countries in Europe, Asia, Oceania, Latin America and the Caribbean now have their own versions of the channel, and therefore MTV Global is now mostly available in those countries where there is no localized version of MTV. History On August 1, 1987, at 00:01 Western European time, MTV Europe began broadcasting with an Elton John concert in Amsterdam. The first video clip shown on the air was " Money for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
