Fact #169168
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Short story:
U2, Altered Images, Echo And The Bunnymen, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Soft Cell, League Of Gentlemen (including Robert Fripp) and I'm So Hollow play in the second Futurama Festival, Queen’s Hall, Leeds, England, UK, Europe.
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Marc Almond (Soft Cell) : It was the most awful thing I’ve ever seen, the absolute pits, a swamp.
Dave Ball (Soft Cell) : You needed a boat in the toilets. I slipped in it.
Marc Almond : It was like an indoor Reading Festiva, a constant stream of bands piling on and off the stage. When we were playing there was another band doing their soundcheck! A real battle of the bands. It was good fur us, a lot of people saw us, but we had terrible reviews, except one in a German magazine which said, ‘Soft Cell create a beautiful new world with rubber edges.’
(Quotes from Sounds, 21 March, 1981)
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Dave Ball (Soft Cell) : You needed a boat in the toilets. I slipped in it.
Marc Almond : It was like an indoor Reading Festiva, a constant stream of bands piling on and off the stage. When we were playing there was another band doing their soundcheck! A real battle of the bands. It was good fur us, a lot of people saw us, but we had terrible reviews, except one in a German magazine which said, ‘Soft Cell create a beautiful new world with rubber edges.’
(Quotes from Sounds, 21 March, 1981)