This Is Not Retro

Music:

Member Since: 8/17/2006
Band Website: thisisnotretro.com
Band Members:

The This Is Not Retro label has released music from the following artists...

HOWARD JONES, KAJAGOOGOO, PETER COX (Go West), KATRINA LESKANICH (formerly with Katrina & The Waves), THE ALARM, PETER COYLE (formerly with The Lotus Eaters), T'PAU, SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK, NEVILLE STAPLE (formerly with The Specials), MIDGE URE, SPEAR OF DESTINY, NIK KERSHAW, TOYAH, DR ROBERT (The Blow Monkeys), HEAVEN 17, GO WEST, TONY HADLEY (formerly with Spandau Ballet), LEEE JOHN (formerly with Imagination) and MODERN ROMANCE...
Influences:
'LIKE 'FRIENDS REUNITED' FOR YOUR RECORD COLLECTION!'

This is probably the best description I've heard that sums up what RememberTheEighties.com, my website, is all about!

This site is not really about the eighties - at least not in any sort of 'retro' way, it's actually about updating the eighties; putting people back in touch with the artists they loved then and reintroducing them to them as the artists they are today.

Sure there's an element of nostalgia involved - in a way you have to look back to begin to remember who was important to you then, and why they were important.

For me the eighties were 'mine' - the first period of my life I could really participate in and call my own. In 1980 I had just started secondary school and in 1990 I graduated from University and the time in between was really all about me - a period of my life when I was discovering who I was, what I liked and what I didn't like, and a period in my life where music was really important and I had the time to indulge in it... to listen to records over and over again, to discover live music and going out to clubs, to find the artists I could connect with whose music would become the soundtrack to my life.

Then you grow up don't you? All of a sudden the important things are getting a job, settling down, buying a house, starting a family, those sort of things.

Suddenly there's not the same time available for music - there are new artists to discover of course, but you've invested maybe ten years of your life in the music you grew up with (and at that point this equals around half your life!) - so you keep returning to the music you know best.

In the meantime of course the artists you love have also been growing up - some have gone on to further success and others haven't, but most of them continue to work as artists, and continue making music despite the fact that for many their audience has drifted away (remember, we're all settling down and getting jobs and establishing ourselves as adults!).

Until now. Now we're at a point - I think - where the generation of people who grew up through the eighties have finished establishing themselves and are settled down and we're starting to find the time and freedom to start rediscovering the music that was important to us and the artists who made it and we're curious about what these artists are doing today and how they sound.

And that's what RememberTheEighties.com and now the This In Not Retro label are there for.

Richard Evans