The Fallout Club was a British
synth-pop
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
new wave band formed by Irish singer
Trevor Herion, the experimental drummer
Paul Simon
Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and actor whose career has spanned six decades. He is one of the most acclaimed songwriters in popular music, both as a solo artist and as half of folk roc ...
, future successful
Thomas Dolby
Thomas Morgan Robertson (born 14 October 1958), known by the stage name Thomas Dolby, is an English musician, producer, composer, entrepreneur and teacher.
Dolby came to prominence in the 1980s, releasing hit singles including " She Blinded M ...
on keyboards, and bassist
Matthew Seligman
Matthew Seligman (14 July 1955 – 17 April 2020) was an English bassist, best known for his association with the new wave music scene of the 1980s. Seligman was a member of the Soft Boys and the Thompson Twins, and was a sideman for Thomas D ...
in 1981. Herion and Simon formed the band shortly after the demise of their previous group, the Civilians, while Dolby was in
Bruce Woolley
Bruce Martin Woolley (born 11 November 1953) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He wrote songs with artists such as The Buggles and Grace Jones, including "Video Killed the Radio Star" and " Slave to the Rhythm", an ...
and
the Camera Club
Bruce Martin Woolley (born 11 November 1953) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He wrote songs with artists such as The Buggles and Grace Jones, including "Video Killed the Radio Star" and " Slave to the Rhythm", a ...
Seligman, who also had played in
the Soft Boys
The Soft Boys were an English rock band led by Robyn Hitchcock primarily during the 1970s, whose initially old-fashioned music style of psychedelic/folk-rock became part of the neo-psychedelia scene with the release of '' Underwater Moonlight'' ...
.
The band only released singles: "Falling Years"/"The Beat Boys",
"Dream Soldiers", "Pedestrian Walkway", "Wonderlust"/"Desert Song" (Happy Birthday Records, 1981). The group was short-lived and split-up shortly afterwards. Dolby went successfully solo, Simon went to work with
Glen Matlock
Glen Matlock (born 27 August 1956) is an English musician, best known for being the bass guitarist in the original line-up of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols. He is credited as a songwriter on 10 of the 12 songs on the Sex Pistols' only alb ...
, Seligman joined The
Thompson Twins
Thompson Twins were a British Pop music, pop band formed in 1977 in Sheffield. Initially a New wave music, new wave group, they switched to a more mainstream pop sound and achieved considerable popularity during the mid-1980s, scoring a string ...
(who counted with a brief collaboration of Dolby), and Herion also went solo, but failed to get hits to releasing his ''Beauty Life'' album in 1983, and died in 1988.
Discography
* "Falling Years" b/w "The Beat Boys" 7" single on Secret Records (1980)
* "Dream Soldiers" b/w "Pedestrian Walkway" 7" single on Happy Birthday Records (May 1981)
* "Wonderlust" b/w "Desert Song" 7" single on Happy Birthday Records (October 1981)
* "Wonderlust (Extended)" b/w "Desert Song (Extended)" 12" single on Happy Birthday Records (October 1981)
References
External links
Trevor Herion tribute page*
English new wave musical groups
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