Pauline Murray And The Invisible Girls: Pauline Murray And The Invisible Girls 1980
The Invisible Girls were a British rock band formed in Salford, Greater Manchester in 1978 to provide a musical backdrop to the recorded output of Salford punk poet John Cooper Clarke. The band's nucleus was Joy Division and New Order producer Martin Hannett and keyboardist Steve Hopkins, with contributions from Pete Shelley of Buzzcocks and Bill Nelson of Be-Bop Deluxe, amongst others. The band played on the first solo album by Pauline Murray (lead singer of Penetration), the eponymous Pauline Murray and the Invisible Girls and some singles, and later with Nico for her 1982 single "Procession".
The Invisible Girls was a band formed in Salford, Greater Manchester, in 1978, to provide backing music for punk poet John Cooper Clarke*. It initially featured Factory Records producer Martin Hannett on bass guitar, Steve Hopkins on keyboards, 10cc drummer Paul Burgess, and guitarist Lyn Oakey. This line-up played on Cooper Clarke's debut album Où est la maison de fromage?, before they named themselves the Invisible Girls.
*where and how I discovered the Invisible Girls backing Dr John Cooper Clarke*
An obviously brilliant follow up from Kostas today after the Penetration posting yesterday!
I bought their first single and album when they came out
For Kostas *
The Invisible Girls back John Cooper Clarke - BEASLEY STREET
The Invisible Girls back John Cooper Clarke - Evidently Chicken Town
2 comments:
Hi Andy - saw The Invisible Girls backing Pauline Murray & John Cooper Clarke at Aylesbury Friars. Vini Reilly was on the bill too. 1980 I think. Had a brief chat with Pauline about what a great venue Friars was a couple of years ago when she was promoting her splendid book Life's A Gamble. She was lovely.
Wow thanks for that anecdote Phil! and for dropping by! Superb! We loved The Friars club too!
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