
Get your just desserts - Blancmange regroup for new album and first UK tour in years
Posted: 22nd October 2010

"I'm so tall, I'm so tall/you raise me and then you let me fall" - oh, I bloody loved Blancmange, the unlikeliest duo in 80s synth-pop (apart from Yazoo). One half was seven-foot tall gangly springy-haired Neil Arthur, the other was pint-sized blondey Stephen Luscombe and together they released some cracking tunes such as "Living on the Ceiling", "Waves", "Game Above My Word", "Don't Tell Me", "Feel Me" (recently covered rather well by Faithless) and the sumptuous cover of Abba's "The Day Before you Came".
When just about every other synth-pop act is doing the rounds on revival tours, it looks as though the 'Mange have a load of new tunes to bring with them - "Blanc Burn", their fourth studio album, gets a release on 28th February and is their first in 25 years since "Believe You Me" in 1985.
Now what about that 2011 tour? Songs old and new will fill the air in Glasgow on 6th March, followed by Manchester, Sheffield and more until 15th when they return to London. Tickets went on sale this morning, priced at £16-£18.50 and are sure to sell through pretty quick.
Since Blancmange folded in the mid-80s, singer Neil Arthur released a solo album in 1994 and Luscombe co-ordinated the arty dance and world-music ensemble West India Company in the late 80s, producing just the one album "Music from New Demons" (I've got this - it's not too shabby!).
Events
- Thu 6th May 2021 Blancmange : Wanderlust The Wardrobe (Leeds) Buy Tickets
- Fri 7th May 2021 Blancmange : Wanderlust The Dome/ Grand Central Hall (Liverpool) Buy Tickets
- Sat 8th May 2021 Blancmange : Wanderlust Roadmender (Northampton) Buy Tickets
- Wed 12th May 2021 Blancmange : Wanderlust Portland House (Cardiff) Buy Tickets
- Thu 13th May 2021 Blancmange : Wanderlust The Buttermarket/ Cellars (Shrewsbury) Buy Tickets
- Fri 14th May 2021 Blancmange : Wanderlust Under the Bridge (Fulham) Buy Tickets
- Sat 15th May 2021 Blancmange : Wanderlust Harpenden Public Halls (Hertfordshire) Buy Tickets
- Wed 19th May 2021 Blancmange : Wanderlust Concorde 2 (Brighton) Buy Tickets
- Thu 20th May 2021 Blancmange : Wanderlust The Fleece (Bristol) Buy Tickets
- Fri 21st May 2021 Blancmange The Brook (Southampton) Buy Tickets
- Sat 29th May 2021 Blancmange Manchester Academy (Manchester) Buy Tickets
- Mon 6th Sep 2021 Blancmange Colchester Arts Centre (Colchester) Buy Tickets
- Thu 16th Sep 2021 Blancmange : Wanderlust Colchester Arts Centre (Colchester) Buy Tickets
- Fri 17th Sep 2021 Blancmange : Wanderlust Arts Centre (Norwich) Buy Tickets
- Sat 18th Sep 2021 Blancmange O2 Institute (Birmingham) Buy Tickets
- Thu 23rd Sep 2021 Blancmange : Wanderlust Guildhall (Gloucester) Buy Tickets
- Fri 24th Sep 2021 Blancmange : Wanderlust Phoenix Arts Centre (Exeter) Buy Tickets
- Sat 25th Sep 2021 Blancmange : Wanderlust The Rescue Rooms (Nottingham) Buy Tickets
- Wed 29th Sep 2021 Blancmange King George's Hall (Blackburn) Buy Tickets
- Thu 30th Sep 2021 Blancmange Riverside (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) Buy Tickets
- Fri 1st Oct 2021 Blancmange The Liquid Rooms (Edinburgh) Buy Tickets
- Sat 2nd Oct 2021 Blancmange Oran Mor (Glasgow) Buy Tickets