Easily the best thing about starting a blog project like this one is when I stumble upon something I missed the first time around that despite its obscurity turns out to be brilliant and happily, Cold Dance are one of these, sounding pleasingly like a more laid back English version of X-Mal Deutschland.
I must admit that my conception of UK geography is not my strongest suite, but I get the impression that Hull
Nevertheless, Cold Dance emerged out of Hull
For some reason, a download of Medusa is substantially harder to find on the net than its predecessor and a Google search on “Cold Dance” presently returns an irritating number of links to Katy Perry. But never fear! Let me save you some trouble:
I suggest you download it quick smart before this one too gets taken down – the page also has some very nice Skeletal Family stuff too – now never let it be said I don’t ever do anything nice for you :-P.
Track Listing: Medusa 7”
- Medusa
- Petrified
Other than that, available information on the enigmatic Cold Dance is rather limited, so I guess I may as well simply pad this post out by including No Glamour in Industry as well.
Track Listing: No Glamour In Industry 7”
- Choice
- Influence
- Then + Now
Indeed, so thoroughly has time forgotten Cold Dance, that I can’t even locate a picture of the band. Their Facebook page does however contain a number of pictures of their fans, most of which appear to have been snapped in the girls’ loos, leaving one to speculate upon whether the photographer may have had an odd proclivity for loitering.
I thought these two had nice hair so in the absence of the
actual band, I guess they can go here.
Line Up: Diane Dubois (vocals), Stuart Hodgson (bass, synthesizer), Kevin Hunter (drums), Tim Arundell (guitar), Tim Harrison (additional percussion).
Hi Sutekh,
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting this and for your interest. I'm kinda glad we seem enigmatic, we purposefully had as little to do with other bands in the area. We shared common interest with Punctured Tough Guy, Quel Dommage and a band called Black September. We were trying to do something different and regarded all the others as doing pretty much the same old same so we had little in common so consequently we dont really figure in the retrospectives written for the area.
Thanks for likening us to Xmals, any similarity is unconscious but myself and Dianne were certainly listening to them and we went to see them during the brief reign of Dingwalls in Hull. At the time I may have been upset, now I feel flattered!
Let me know if you want any more info, I'd be more than happy to fill in any blanks (if I can).
Just one other thing, its great you're doing this, one of my personal peeves is the lack of 'history' now so its great to see someone taking a lot of time to change this. (God that sounds patronizing....it's not meant to be!)
All the best ... Kevin Hunter
Thanks so much for that great feedback and words of encouragement. It's so rewarding when someone from the bands I've had a look at actually takes an interest in in what I'm doing on this blog.
ReplyDeleteBut I'll tell you what I want (what I really really want) - is a photo of the band - pretty please?
Hi Sutekh. I'll see what I can do on the photo front, I remember doing some really good stuff and I'm sure theres informal stuff but....I dont have any, sadly I lost pretty much everything (I dont even have copies of the singles...) story for another time. But I will ask around and if I can get anything I'll send it on.
ReplyDeleteKevin
Excellent. Meanwhile, I'll have to check out those other bands you've mentioned - what I've seen so far looks very interesting.
ReplyDeleteIn case you haven't noticed, I took the liberty of including "Medusa" on the "The Atrocity Exhibition" compilation we released for download just last week.
I am so glad I found this article. I used to run a fanzine in Hull back in the early 80s called Kindred Spirit and we interviewed Cold Dance after one of their gigs. They certainly were amazing to watch live! I've published the interview online http://kindredspiritfanzine.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/issue-three-band-interviews-cold-dance.html along with other stuff from the fanzine.
ReplyDeleteThis has recently been published on the band in the Hull Music Archive:
ReplyDelete*NEW* on the Archive website - the full story of Cold Dance, by the band themselves, with photos:
http://www.hullmusicarchive.co.uk/artist-cold-dance/