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About Me

Having left rural italy and the prospect of a life digging potatoes to come to london, marcomini's career started as a dancer but he always knew his first love was music. having left rural england to also join the big bad city, BrotherSnare's life evolved as a producer and as a percussionist extraordinaire delighting many club nights with his beautiful hand skills...the previous super geeks met when they were recruited to form a short lived band called masse... when the band stopped being (it was a bit rubbish) marcomini and Brother Snare decided to continue their musical journey and created eightyfive...KISS OUR RETRO KISS OUR RETRO KISS OUR RETRO. eightyfive combines fresh and catchy melodies with dance beats; lyrics are tinged with humour and stories of everyday life. ‘We enjoy making music sprinkled with an 80s synths sensibility. but above all we enjoy making music you can dance to and definitely sing along to... IT'S POP! IT'S ELECTRIC! IT'S RETRO! we don't waste time with highbrow dance music: eightyfive is all about FUN so cover yourself in chocolate spread, join in and KISS OUR RETRO!..our first three demo offerings are Destiny,an 80s flavoured piece of camp electro pop about standing still (!); 1985, an unashamedly sing along track about growing up hating your parents and falling in love with the wrong people..feelings I'm sure we all share regardless the decade we were born..Believe, the obligatory survival and defiant song (screw you potato diggers!). Also introducing 'Music is Dead', the angry piece about the way the music industry is and 'In My Eyes', a little funky number with retro bells all the way from Madonna's First Album...enjoy and look out for more to come"...with love, e-e eightyfive...xMyspace Layouts , Myspace Abstract Layouts

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Member Since: 10/02/2007
Band Members: Marco 'Hallelujah Jones' Mini-mouth, BrotherSNARE-hands
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Influences: 80s pop, italo-disco, Madonna, Prince, lifelike, Kris Menace, Alan Braxe, Goldfrapp, Tracey Thorn, The Black Science Orchestra, Sebastien Leger, Daft Punk, ABC, Art of Noise, Grace Jones, Propaganda, Masters at Work, Miguel Migs, Lisa Shaw, Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Tears For Fears, Duran Duran, Spandau, Frankie Knuckles, David Morales, Pet Shop Boys, Ben Watt, Minni Ripperton, Kraftwerk, Roisin Murphy and Moloko,The Thievery Corporation, Richard X, Justin Timberlake, Justice, Mr Fingers, The Police, Five Star, The Neptunes,Cola Boy's 7 Ways To Love, Nina Simone, Sam Sparro, Kim Carnes' Bette Davies' Eyes, Cyndi Lauper's Time after Time, Alison Limerick's Where Love Lives, Supertramp, Eurythimics, Danny Tenaglia, Michael Jackson's Off The Wall album, David Morales,the films Flashdance, Back to the Future, Desperately Seeking Susan, 1985.
Sounds Like: us!
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

sex and music

So we're back from Italy. Trip was interestingly useful and hopefully established good links to spread the eightyfive message in Europe.Now in a perhaps desperate attempt of obtaining new fans, eighty...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:35:00 GMT

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Posted by on Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:04:00 GMT

la dolce vita

Yo yo yoeightyfive are off to Italy to talk business!exciting to be back in my homeland where the love for italo disco and moroder sounds started...hopefully exciting stuff will come out of it. stay t...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:49:00 GMT

on a good note!

On a good note we have a new song on our player called In My Eyes, which I'm quite proud of even if it still needs a bit of editing done!!
Posted by on Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:19:00 GMT

revenge of the nerds part II

so motherfuckers we're back and it's about time!eightyfive have been having some creative problems with one half not feeling the current direction of things...of course that makes you feel like crying...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:07:00 GMT

EIGHTYFIVE ARE NOMINATED BEST UNOFFICIAL MUSIC SITE!

Hey everyone, it's time to have your say in the BT Digital Music Awards 2008 and Eightyfive is inline for nomination for the Best Unofficial Music Site 2008 in the Peoples Choice Awards. Take a look a...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:43:00 GMT

the show must go on.

dear all,so eightyfive got invited, very last minute, to do a gig as part of a charity fundraiser and of course we said yes... you would think that being a charidee gig, baby jesus would have be on ou...
Posted by on Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:44:00 GMT

ultimate validation. popjustice heart us?

so as we are in the process of hassling people to be our friend on this god forsaken thing, i thought about messaging popjustice which is the best site ever if you want to have an irreverent look at p...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:35:00 GMT

potato diggers

so here we are. after what feels like two hundred years a new track has been uploaded.it's called believe. has no affiliation with cher. it's about believing. wrote this track thinking about those mot...
Posted by on Sat, 31 May 2008 06:18:00 GMT

rubbing shoulders with fauxlebrities

so last night eightyfive were somehow introduced to the glamorous life of fauxlebrities parties...we queued (yes queued!) in the early winter london frost to get into some mobile launch party (all i k...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:56:00 GMT