ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK will follow up last year’s live albums retrospective with a legacy piece on the good, bad and ugly of concert videos, there’s been doing some research viewing over the holidays which has been amusing on occasions 🎫📼 www.electricityclub.co.uk/live-albums/

Back to NOW! New episode! 🎧 The podcast celebrating the variously compiled world of pop is back, Back, BACK! Join @whenisbirths.bsky.social and revisit NOW/Smash Hits of the 80s. Start 2026 in swingorilliant style! Listen and subscribe at all podcast places or here: linktr.ee/poprambler

One of those lists 😉 www.electricityclub.co.uk/30-songs-of-...

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly of 2025 as seen by ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK, just to remind everyone that we are an electronic music platform and while we are not anti-guitar, we will NEVER put indie rock like Wolf Alice as album of the year! Happy New Year 🎤🎹🥳 www.electricityclub.co.uk/2025-end-of-...

Now with 205 tracks, this is the final update to ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK's Oh 2025 Playlist, new additions include compute, R. Missing, Unify Separate, Local Suicide, Minimal Schlager, Yota, CZARINA, MOTHERMARY, Mercy Girl, Bootblacks, Vioflesh + Nuovo Testamento 🎶 open.spotify.com/playlist/1xX...

The brand new A THOUSAND MAD THINGS single 'Promises' comes out on 9th January 2026, ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK has heard it and it's a goodie... the best long form release of the year, his debut EP 'Cry & Dance' was reviewed as part of our Introducing article🎤🎹 www.electricityclub.co.uk/introducing-...

ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK presents its 2025 END OF YEAR REVIEW with a summary of what floated our boat and what sank it, plus some opinion on the state of modern fandom in the social media age and gig attendances among a few other things 🎶 www.electricityclub.co.uk/2025-end-of-...

1983 - Smash Hits Most Fanciable Human Beings… 😘

ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK presents A Beginner’s Guide To Bill Nelson and his more electronic-based material with a summary of 20 tracks tracing his work up to the start of the millennium 🎤🎸🎹🎶 www.electricityclub.co.uk/beginners-gu...

Here is ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK’s 30 SONGS OF 2025, a reminder that this is an ELECTRONIC MUSIC platform and yes, we might embrace the synthy end of someone like Lady Gaga but we will never cluelessly veer off to feature w*nky indie rock bands in our lists 😉 www.electricityclub.co.uk/30-songs-of-...

In 2025, ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK somehow managed to scrape together a 20 track Beginner’s Guide to MIRRORS, a band who only released one album in their day… a self-awarded gold star to us for effort if nothing else 🎹🎤🎹🎹🌟😉 www.electricityclub.co.uk/a-beginners-...

Now 90 years young, the wonderful music of Hans-Joachim Roedelius was the subject of a Beginner’s Guide earlier this year 🎹🎶🇩🇪 www.electricityclub.co.uk/beginners-gu...

1983 - Record Mirror reviews the video releases, ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK are JAPAN fans and went to one of those Hammersmith shows but even we were yawning after 5 minutes of watching ‘Oil On Canvas’! Actually, that’s not correct, it was 12… 🥱

Swedish producer @johanagebjorn.bsky.social presented his personal stories and insights on 20 career highlights selected from his various musical projects over the years by ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK 🎤🎹 www.electricityclub.co.uk/a-beginners-...

Another Beginner’s Guide from 2025 to the long and varied music career of Paul Statham 🎸🎹🎼🎚️🎚️🎚️🎚️ www.electricityclub.co.uk/a-beginners-...

ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK rarely does all that insignificant anniversary b*llocks that other socials do but released this day in 1987, the Shep Pettibone single remix of ‘Behind The Wheel’; IT’S THE BEST VERSION EVER! The album cut just plods and goes nowhere 😇💣 m.youtube.com/watch?v=VEAu...

Coming soon, a Beginner’s Guide to Bill Nelson but until then, here’s a popular one from this year about the EURYTHMICS axis 🎤🎹🎶 www.electricityclub.co.uk/a-beginners-...

TOP RELEASES of 2025: DARK Edition We teamed up with guest curators @theelectricityclub.bsky.social Synthpop Fanatic @awfullysinister.bsky.social To compile 2025’s best of Darkwave, Synthpop, Goth, Post-Punk, Coldwave, Dark Electro and Dark Rock 🖤 www.absynth.space/articles/top...

The Starcluster & Marc Almond album ‘Silver City Ride’ is reissued by @cherryredrecords.bsky.social on 9th January 2026 - the original 2016 review by ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK summarised it as “Almond’s most synth laden body of work since Soft Cell” 🎤🎹 www.electricityclub.co.uk/starcluster-...

ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK doesn’t do an albums of the year article but over the last few years, it has posted about its 5 favourites on socials. Our friends at @absynth.space asked us to discuss our 5 favourite longer form releases for their wider 2025 summary 🎤🎹🖤 www.absynth.space/articles/top...

ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK was sad to hear about the passing of Will Bush from sibling synthwave duo IMMORTAL GIRLFRIEND over the holiday period; their EP ‘Sajourner’ was reviewed in February 2024 and now takes on greater poignancy in its title 🎤🎹😥 www.electricityclub.co.uk/immortal-gir...

ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK's playlist 'A Synth Is For Life & Not Just For Christmas...' has been updated with 'We're The Lucky Ones', the new seasonal offering from Dubstar plus 'Christmas Stars' by lonelyklown and 'Auld Lang Sine Wave' by Nation Of Language 🎤🎹🎄 open.spotify.com/playlist/7vI...

You find out a thousand mad things occasionally and today, it was about the lead singer of this band Vitamin Z who opened for Midge Ure in 1985 and it wasn’t that he went on to manage The Arctic Monkeys… 🎤🎹🎶😉 youtu.be/SF8AmEo5kDQ

Despite the challenges to put it together, The Electronic Legacy of 1986 will publish soon but until then, here’s the year of 1985 summarised in 20 albums 🎶😉 www.electricityclub.co.uk/electronic-l...

Appropriately for A-ha, these are some October 1986 album reviews in Smash Hits 🍂 ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK has managed to compile a list of 20 albums for The Electronic Legacy of 1986 article publishing in the new year, what will be in it and what will not? 🎤🎹🎶

ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK’s favourite new act of 2025 is A THOUSAND MAD THINGS, who is yours? 🎤🎹🎶 www.electricityclub.co.uk/introducing-...

ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK’s favourite gig of 2025 was Sparks, what was yours? 🎫😉 www.electricityclub.co.uk/sparks-live-...

CAUSES OF DEATH IN THE CLASSIC SONGS OF SYNTH BRITANNIA 🎤🎹☠️😁

A fab seasonal cover of Hanoi Rocks done by one of ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK’s favourite Finnish synth duos Sin Cos Tan 🎤🎹🇫🇮🎄 soundcloud.com/theofficialj...

As part of its Lost Albums series, ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK takes a retrospective look at the 1979 release ‘Is There More To Life Than Dancing?’ by Noël which was written and produced by SPARKS 🎤🎹💃🪩⚠️ www.electricityclub.co.uk/lost-albums-...

While it wasn’t this that represented A THOUSAND MAD THINGS in ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK’s 30 SONGS OF 2025, it’s still a really good one with some fabulous vocals, particularly in the chorus 🎤🎹🎶 m.youtube.com/watch?v=-ozH...

Christmas Party like it’s 1982, ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK had the pleasure of joining @poprambler.bsky.social for a chat about the pop year of 1982 alongside @wadeywade.bsky.social, author of ‘1984: The Year Pop Went Queer’ on the ‘Back To NOW’ podcast 🎶💬 www.electricityclub.co.uk/back-to-now-...

2025 in 30 songs according to ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK plus a 200+ strong Spotify playlist at the end of the article for good measure… not heard of them? Well, that’s the point! take a listen 🎤🎹🎶 www.electricityclub.co.uk/30-songs-of-...

An interview with A THOUSAND MAD THINGS before his recent London performance at Release Me 🎤🎹 youtu.be/Ft0PbrA0TKU

How was 2025 for you? This was how ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK saw the year and we stand by the comment that the Nation Of Language album was “extremely dull”… maybe they ran out of New Order songs to rip-off? 💣😉 www.electricityclub.co.uk/2025-end-of-...

I don’t know why electronic music suits this time of year so much but really pleased Advance from Gates Of Light II is on @theelectricityclub.bsky.social ‘s Oh 2025 Playlist ✨ open.spotify.com/playlist/1xX...

ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK's playlist 'A Synth Is For Life & Not Just For Christmas...' has been updated with 'We're The Lucky Ones', the new seasonal offering from Dubstar plus 'Christmas Stars' by lonelyklown and 'Auld Lang Sine Wave' by Nation Of Language 🎤🎹🎄 open.spotify.com/playlist/7vI...

Thank you for celebrating the variously compiled world of pop in ‘25. Guests, listeners & friends including @wadeywade.bsky.social @nndroid.bsky.social @ricardoautobahn.co.uk @nickheyward.com @theelectricityclub.bsky.social @joemuggs.bsky.social Merry Christmas! linktr.ee/poprambler

Read all about it 📚😉 www.electricityclub.co.uk/1984-the-yea...

When the room is quiet… 👻

Out today is 'The Pitch', a wonderful new mini-album from COMPUTE, one of the best kept secrets in Swedish electronic pop; ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK presents its review 🎤🎹💻 www.electricityclub.co.uk/compute-the-...

On this day 45 years ago, ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK attended its first concert, it was OMD at Hammersmith Odeon… the show was lively and loud with two stage invasions! It started a run of gig going and the next will be No 654, act TBA although tix for Pet Shop Boys and Midge Ure have been purchased 🎫🎵😉

An interesting read on Slate by a lifelong LCD Soundsystem fan; ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK could list a whole bunch of acts it used to love that it now finds cringe or cabaret but we'd rather hear from all of you... so fire away synthpop pickers! 🤔 slate.com/culture/2025...

1980 - Entering the UK singles chart at No68 this week 45 years ago was ‘Fade To Grey’ by VISAGE… it would go on to become the biggest selling single in West Germany the following year 🎶

Ahead of his new album ‘Supernatural Lover’ out on 5th February 2026, KNIGHT$ is interviewed by ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK about its contents; as it is Bandcamp Friday, you can pre-order it via the link at the end of the article 🎤🎹😎 www.electricityclub.co.uk/knight-super...

In case you missed it, ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK presented a list of the good, the bad and the pointless in The Electronic Legacy of LIVE ALBUMS 🎤🎹🎫 www.electricityclub.co.uk/live-albums/

ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK presents its 2025 END OF YEAR REVIEW with a summary of what floated our boat and what sank it, plus some opinion on the state of modern fandom in the social media age and gig attendances among a few other things 🎶 www.electricityclub.co.uk/2025-end-of-...

As ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK prepares its 2025 END OF YEAR REVIEW for publication later this weekend, a look back to when Red Starr aka Ian Cranna had a grump at the state of independents for Smash Hits as 1981 drew to a close… 📝😉

In case you missed it, here’s ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK’s 30 SONGS OF 2025, it’s always interesting to compare it with the choices of other “synth” oriented platforms and how different it is, but that’s not a bad thing… 🎤🎹🎶💿 www.electricityclub.co.uk/30-songs-of-...

You’ve read the article, now listen to the expanded playlist because A SYNTH IS FOR LIFE AND NOT JUST FOR CHRISTMAS 🎹🎄🎅 open.spotify.com/playlist/7vI...