Level 9 was a short-lived British
new wave band that existed from 1978 to 1980. They were formed in
Manchester by ex-Love Explosion frontman Ian Hamilton (guitar) and David Bale (bass guitar, keyboards), together with
Andy Kanavan (drums) and singer Lori Hartley. The band combined
synthpop
Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop; ) is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s a ...
and
post-punk styles into their songs.
Level 9 only released two singles, one in 1979 and another in 1980. The first, "Touch", was written over the course of a year by Andy Kanavan and Ian Hamilton, based on Kanavan's holiday in Tokyo two years earlier. "Touch" spent one week in the German charts in 1979. In 1980, Level 9 split up.
[David Roberts (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). HIT Entertainment. ][Larkin, Colin: "The Guinness Who's Who Of Indie and New Wave Music". Guinness Publishing, 1992, ]
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English new wave musical groups
Musical groups from Manchester