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Soho was an English musical trio, consisting of identical
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Jacqueline (Jacqui) Cuff and Pauline Cuff, with producer Tim London (also known as Timothy Brinkhurst). Other members of the group over the years have been
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(now a well-known artist – Gillick also contributed on turntables and drums at Soho's early gigs),
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),
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). Also for a while, Bob and Henry Morris, who previously played with the trio when they were known as Groovalax.


Career

The sisters were born as Jacqui Cuff and Pauline Cuff born 1962 in
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, England. Timothy Brinkhurst born 1960. In the early 1980s, when the Cuff sisters were student nurses, they performed together in
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, before meeting Brinkhurst, when the trio appeared as Tim London's Orgasm then Tim London and the Soho Sisters. The group is known for their
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song "Hippychick" (composed by Brinkhurst and also credited by Johnny Marr), which was a Top 20 US ''Billboard'' Hot 100
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hit in December 1990, and a Top 10 hit single in the
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in 1991. The song featured a sample from
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", sequenced over a
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-type rhythm. London told ''
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'' magazine that it "was written as a blues before The Smiths' samples and the rhythm were added". "Hippychick" also went to number two for two weeks on the US
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chart, in a territory where the record was licensed to Warner's ATCO label from David Mimran's Tam Tam/Savage Records in the UK. Prior to the release of "Hippychick", Soho recorded three albums for
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subsidiary
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, although only one, ''Noise'', was released. Subsequently, Soho released two albums on Savage/ATCO: ''Goddess'' and, in the US only, ''Thug''. In 1991, Soho recorded a single with
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, "Born To Be Alive", which peaked at No. 51 in the UK chart. In 1994, Soho signed to Magnet/Warners on the strength of two self-financed albums, recorded after Savage Records folded. The LPs, including a 'self-titled' album called ''Oosh'' (an anagram of ''Soho'') and another one called ''Yard'', remained unreleased until 2008, when the latter album was released on download. During the 1990s they performed a
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" for the soundtrack of the film ''
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''. The track "Nuthin' on my Mind" featured in the 1991 John Hughes film, '' Career Opportunities''. "Hippy Chick" featured on the 1990
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, '' Happy Daze''. The band attained some brief press notoriety in 1992 with their track "Claire's Kitchen" (on ''Thug''), which referenced the alleged affair between Prime Minister
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and caterer Claire Latimer (which was at the time subject to libel proceedings). Brinkhurst moved to Edinburgh in the early 2000s. He managed the band
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, co-producing and co-writing five of their albums. In 2017, Brinkhurst teamed up again with the Cuff sisters, and main vocalist Law Holt, in the electronic music collective Iklan, who released their ''Album Number 1'' on the Soulpunk label in 2020.


Discography


Albums

*''Noise'' (1989) *''Goddess'' (1990) (AUS #102) *''Thug'' (1992) *''Baby Baby Baby Baby'' (1993) *''Yard'' (1994) *''Soho – Soho'' (1996) *''Another London'' (1997) *''Family BC'' (1999)


Singles


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Soho (Band) English pop music groups British musical trios Musical groups established in 1989 Musical groups disestablished in 1999 Alternative dance musical groups Trip hop groups Atco Records artists