Face '83: Was (Not Was)

1983's version of Out Come The Freaks was the second of a none-more-Douglas-Adams four-part trilogy. It came two years after the original, but was the first of the sequence to reach the UK chart. Although only 41.

Whether you think this was a wise choice for The Face or not depends entirely on how you feel about Was (Not Was). Personally, I think they tended to produce work that you'd expect would be better for all that over-thinking, but I guess that that is why I'd probably never be invited to write for i-D or Blitz. A narrow victory to The Face, I think.

10 - 6.



[Part of The Face's best recordings 1983]

Was (Not Was) is (not was) again

It's been sixteen years since Was Not Was have released an album, but... you can see where this is going, can't you?

Presumably feeling that they've been gone long enough for everyone to stop going "are they the Walk The Dinosaur band?", then. Their last major activity as a band was opening for Dire Straits, which might explain the need for a decade and a half of lying down in a dark room.

The comeback album - Boo - is due April 7th and will be on Rykodisc.