Luxuria

Founder BUZZCOCK and MAGAZINE frontman, Howard Devoto started writing w/. Noko in 1986 w/. a view to putting a band together to play Factory Records' Festival Of The 10th Summer at G-Mex stadium in Manchester that summer to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Punk. They played a short set as ADULTERY, borrowing backline from The Smiths. (Noko also played a set w/. Pete Shelley at the same gig in a line-up that also included ex Magazine drummer John Doyle). Line-up for that one Adultery gig was : Howard Devoto - Voice, Noko - Guitar/Viola, Leroy James - keyboards/Guitar, Simon Hoare - Drums, Pete Kinski - Bass. Signing to Beggars Banquet in 1987 and deciding on the name LUXURIA, Devoto and Noko released two LPs : "Unanswerable Lust" (1988) and "Beastbox" (1990) and toured Europe and USA throughout 1988 w/. a line-up of Devoto & Noko on voice/gtrs & viola as usual and Karl Leiker - Bass, Mark Rowlett - Drums/Sequential Studio 440, James Gardner - Keyboards, Frog - Gtr/kKeyboards. The final LUXURIA gig @ Town & Country Club (now The Forum) in London featured cameo appearances by Barry Adamson - Bass on a rendition of Magazine's "The Light Pours Out Of Me" for an encore, and Morrissey, who read a passage of Marcel Proust's "A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu" over the intro of "Mademoiselle" before throwing the tattered book into the crowd as the band kicked into the song. (There is a bootleg recording of the gig in circulation). "She's Your Lover Now". the Bob Dylan cover on the B-Side of "Redneck" featured three members of Shriekback, Barry Andrews (organ), Steve Halliwell (Piano) and Martyn Barker (Drums) in addition to Howard (Vocals/rhythm gtr) and Noko (Bass/electric 12-string gtr).