EAP Episode.81 - Dave Formula (Magazine/ Visage) : "I liken Magazine's music to a Hitchcock movie, all the suspense and release" episode artwork

EPISODE · Apr 13, 2025 · 58 MIN

EAP Episode.81 - Dave Formula (Magazine/ Visage) : "I liken Magazine's music to a Hitchcock movie, all the suspense and release"

from Eighties Archive Podcast · host David Arscott + John Mabey

*This episode contains excerpts from 3rd party music*In this episode we welcome Dave Formula, who we know from his pioneering work on the keyboards in both Magazine and Visage, but we hear the fascinating tale of Dave's career which began in the 60s with a TOTP appearance in R&B outfit, St.Louis Union. In time this lead Dave to head up a touring band, becoming the musical director for Motown artist David Ruffin when touring the UK, long before he was part of any Punk, New Wave, or New Romantic movement.Dave also chooses 5 tracks from the 80s that mean something to him and tells a ghost story that centres around Alfred Hitchcock. Enjoy our chat with this humble legend -DADave's band Affection place will be playing Chelmsford's Hotbox on May 2nd.https://dice.fm/event/k63lg8-affection-place-ft-dave-formula-metroglow-2nd-may-hot-box-chelmsford-tickets?lng=enMusic used in this Episode : Visage 'fade to grey' (Currie, Payne, Ure, Strange) / Visage 'Visa Age' (Strange, Ure, Currie, McGeoch, Egan, Tomlinson) / Chaka Khan 'I Feel For You' (Prince) / Magazine 'ASong From Under The Floorboards' (Adamsom, Tomlinson, Devoto, Doyle, McGeoch) / Magazine 'Definitive Gaze' (Devoto, McGeoch) / Herbie Hancock 'Rockit' (Hancock/ Laswell/ Beinhorn) / Visage 'Night Train' (Strange, Ure, Egan, Currie, Tomlinson) / Aretha Frankin 'Whose Zoomin' Who?' (Franklin, glass, Walden) / Cameo 'She's Strange' (Blackmon, Jenkins, Leftenant, Singleton)

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