Martyn Ware: The National Trust

Martyn Ware out of Heaven 17 et al has been collaborating with The National Trust on a sea-themed artwork. It's easier to explore than explain, so go have a look and a poke about.

Penthouse and Pavement hits the streets

It's 30 years since Heaven 17 released Penthouse And Pavement. While you absorb that thought, and wonder where the years have gone, and feel the breath of the reaper on your shoulder, and sob for your lost youth and crushed dreams and... sorry, where was I? Oh, yes, you might want to book tickets for the celebratory tour:

Edinburgh Picture House (Nov 22)
Glasgow ABC (Nov 23)
Manchester Ritz (Nov 25)
Birmingham Institute (Nov 26)
London Forum (Nov 28)
Oxford Academy (Nov 29)
Brighton Corn Exchange (Nov 30)
Bristol Academy (Dec 1)

Heaven 17 covers Heaven 17

It's not just an appearance on prime-time ITV, you know: Oh, no. Heaven 17 are punting a sort-of-new record into the Christmas market. Naked as Advertised - Versions '08 is a bunch of new versions of old stuff culled from the Heaven 17 back catalogue. The Fascist Groove Thang is still unrequired.

The past's future: 1981 - 6. Heaven 17

Smash Hits were sure that H17 would thrive as

"their Human League connections can't have done them any harm at all."

Although, in retrospect, they probably did - cast by their spin-off status into a perpetual battle they could never win.

The band were together for the Billy MacKenzie Memorial in March, from which this Temptation is sourced:



[Buy: Last year's remasterage of Penthouse and Pavement]