{"id":5125,"date":"2022-04-13T00:18:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T00:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/?p=5125"},"modified":"2024-02-14T17:15:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T17:15:22","slug":"club-tango-performance-ftn-7s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/club-tango-performance-ftn-7s\/","title":{"rendered":"Club Tango- Performance & FTN 7”s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fresh from the mailbox to the turntable, here’s the full 7” discography by UK band Club Tango, all of which was\u00a0released in 1981. I love both singles, though have slight preference for “<\/i>FTN,” the track I first heard and fell in love with ages ago (with many thanks and much love to\u00a0Only Death Is Fatal<\/a> blog for turning me on to originally).<\/p>\n

All four tracks have that excellent rickety 1981 post-punk sound I generally go wild for. The first single features male vocals, while the second adds a female vocalist, who is unknown as far as I can tell.\u00a0The band features several musicians who also were involved in various well known projects. Alex Turnbull would join 23 Skidoo, Andy Ross also was a member of The Disco Zombies, and Dave Henderson, Paul Hood, and Nigel Lackey would carry on as minimal post-punk outfit Worldbackwards with Dinah Mulholland. Is Mulholland the same singer on the FTN<\/em> single? Do tell, if so! Lackey would also play in Mystery Plane, whose “Curse of the Bodysnatcher<\/a>” is a stone cold<\/em> classic.<\/p>\n

Henderson eventually became a music journalist, while Ross became a music executive for British label Food, and is likely more well known these days for being the genius to sign Blur, one of my all-time favorite bands. He just passed away in January of this year, so this one’s for you, Andy. <3<\/p>\n

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Club Tango –\u00a0Performance\u00a0<\/em>7”
\n1. Performance
\n2. Fun Specialists<\/p>\n

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Club Tango-\u00a0FTN<\/em> 7”
\n1. FTN
\n2. Get the Picture<\/p>\n

*download both here<\/a>*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fresh from the mailbox to the turntable, here’s the full 7” discography by UK band Club Tango, all of which was\u00a0released in 1981. I love both singles, though have slight preference for “FTN,” the track I first heard and fell in love with ages ago (with many thanks and much love to\u00a0Only Death Is Fatal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,108,939,940,941,19,91,942],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1980s","category-108","category-23-skidoo","category-disco-zombies","category-mystery-plane","category-post-punk","category-uk","category-worldbackwards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5125"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5385,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125\/revisions\/5385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}