Fashion

Fàshiön were four young, unemployed, working-class gits from the gutters of Birmingham who donned make-up, attitude, weird clothes and swaggered forth intent on escaping Birmingham's car factory mentality by conquering the music business.On their journey they encountered a plethora of the industry's sickest practitioners, pundits, hangers-on, pushers, groupies, record executives, and other no account, talentless scum. And possibly as many as three good people. Oh yes, they also managed to cobble together some of the most innovative and original pop music of the time. Music that would inspire a host of other successful bands and singers.In the brief spotlight of their fifteen minutes of fame Fàshiön toured both the USA and UK as opening band for The Police, did a UK club tour with a then unknown band from Ireland called U2, opened for the B52's on their first ever UK tour, had a new band called Duran Duran open shows for them, and played gigs with: Alternative TV, Billy Idol, Brent Ford and the Nylons, Brian James Brains, Chas and Dave, Chelsea, Dangerous Girls, Dansette Damage, Delta 5, Dry Rib, Gang of Four, Ha-Ha Germs, Hazel O'Connor, Ian Dury, Inner Circle, John Cale, John Cooper Clarke, Joy Division, Medium Medium, Moon Martin, Neon Hearts, Patti Smith, Richard Jobson, Robert Fripp, Squeeze, Steel Pulse, Steve Hillage, SVT, The Cramps, The Cure , The Damned, The Mekons, The Meteors, The Photos, The Ramones, The Reds, The Skids, The Specials, The Stop, The Stranglers, The The, The Tubes, Toyah Wilcox, UB40, and Wilko Johnson.