"Watching an early Spandau Ballet performance is like being jostled by angry handsome plumbers shouting Marvin Gaye songs. Whereas listening to Almond is like perching on a stool while a skinny, unsettling man sings Jacques Brel-style torch ballads dressed only in a metal codpiece and nipple clamps"
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Barney Ronay
Darwin: he’s not like Andy Carroll. Contains spandau ballet vs soft cell analogy
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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The Essex plumbers came later.
I spent years reading brilliant writers taking potshots at Spandau Ballet in Smash Hits.
Even Neil Tennant and Paul du Noyer never came close to this.