INDIANS IN MOSCOW - "Indians in Moscow" (1983)

Read all the papers
There's nothing to say
The last issue
Won't be out today
This is normal, they say
Clue on the black chequered paper?
Indians in Moscow

News will read you
All shining out
News will read you
All shining out
Russian dolls in blackened wood
And generations question
Prints or repetition?
Tribes over-run

No order of this kind
Picture the chaos here

Squares dissolve to another design
Of the present
Safety here! No light!
Sand in the glass
Sinking basic colours into grey
Tribes over-run

Cataclysmic spires
Are overdone today

You have to write an essay
But your pen is running
For president
Indians in Moscow

Indians in Moscow are a synth-pop band formed in Hull in 1981 who later moved into Techno and house territory.
The band was formed in 1981 by keyboard players Pete Riches and Stuart Walton (formerly of The Most), and singer Adele Nozedar. The band later expanded to five members with the addition of a guitarist and a drummer (Rich Hornby). The band's first release was a contribution the various artists compilation Your Secret's Safe With Us in 1982. They came to fame on the cult 1980s Channel 4 music TV show The Tube as part of the show's Hull music special, and had three hits on the UK Indie Chart with "Naughty Miranda", "I Wish I Had", and "Jack Pelter & His Sex Change Chicken". After a fourth single, the Big Wheel EP, the band's only (self-titled) album was released in 1985. The band split up shortly afterwards, with Nozedar forming a new band, The Fever Tree, (along with drummer Tom Hosie, who had replaced Hornby, Ali McMordie of Stiff Little Fingers, guitarist Rob Dean of Japan)and guitarist Nik Corfield, who released one single, "The Pixie Shop", late in 1985.
Riches and Walton reformed the band in 1998 with singer Chris Guard, releasing the singles "Wrong Love" and "Babylon", and the album Ten Days To Live, which they self-financed. Guard left in 1984, and Riches and Walton recruited House and garage DJ Simon Le Vans, releasing the Something Wonderful EP. The band has continued since, with two albums released in 2004. Walton and Guard worked together again in the band Gregoryz Girl.
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