Iva Davies / Icehouse

[fleabag]

Just remembered i caught Icehouse live by accident when i went to see Bowie at Milton Keynes Bowl on his Serious Moonlight tour.

They were supporting , and i was impressed. This was the mid 80's and synth was big.

And there i was rummaging through YT again, and up he pops.  And 30 odd or more years on he can still sing, unlike like a lot of old farts that are still going

Vid of a classic,  full band , great bass  and an acoustic version of another classic. Davies has a great vocal IMO and he's lost the aewful mullet

 

Edited April 25, 2018 by fleabag

[BrunoBass]

Guy Pratt was in the band at the time of those early hits.

[fleabag]

I vaguely remember that, and  i have an inkling that there maybe some footage

[Bagman]

Iva Davies

[fleabag]

Yeah that's him, not Ira

[franzbassist]

"Man of Colours" is a superb album.  Choc full of syth-tastic 80s power pop.

 

 

[fleabag]

I'm quite partial to Primtive Man.  Very polished

 

[dmccombe7]

Icehouse were on a TOTP 80's edition few weeks ago with Guy Pratt on bass. I recorded it just for that reason.

If you haven't read Guys book yet you should. Quite an insight into music world of those days.

Dave

[fleabag]

Apparently, Guy was on bass '82-'86 so  there was a chance  i saw him with Icehouse at the Milton Keynes gig, which was '83 i think. 

Beer and other substances at the time have clouded the memory a smidge

Wonder if there's any vids ...

 

[ChrisJaxon]

With Pratt!

[fleabag]

This was the Bowl gig - cant see any live footage

http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/Milton-Keynes-1983.html

[TheGreek]

Hey Little Girl is an absolute classic in my mind. It's one of those tracks that I play people to test their musical knowledge - many think it's either Japan or Roxy Music.

[fleabag]

4 hours ago, ChrisJaxon said:

With Pratt!

Hah ! And there he is.

[fleabag]

Hits the spot

 

[Bagman]

Is that a L2 or XL2 Steinberger? 

[dave_bass5]

First time i saw IH was on the Tube. I was knocked out by the mix and overall tone of the band. Hey Little girl sounded amazing. I 'think' it was Guy on bass, but i wasn't aware of him or the band at the time.

Agree with the comments about Guy's book. Its a great read, and in fact the only book ive read in the past 3 decades lol.

[fleabag]

6 hours ago, Bagman said:

Is that a L2 or XL2 Steinberger? 

Certainly looks like a Steiny

[dmccombe7]

7 hours ago, dave_bass5 said:

First time i saw IH was on the Tube. I was knocked out by the mix and overall tone of the band. Hey Little girl sounded amazing. I 'think' it was Guy on bass, but i wasn't aware of him or the band at the time.

Agree with the comments about Guy's book. Its a great read, and in fact the only book ive read in the past 3 decades lol.

I've read quite a few over past couple of years while on holiday including Guy's, Glenn Hughes, Gene Simmons, Ozzy and Bob Daisley's to read this year's holiday in May.

Like the various F1 driver autobiography's too. David Coultard's was interesting if you like F1 that is.

Dave 

[SICbass]

On 4/24/2018 at 23:51, fleabag said:

Just remembered i caught Icehouse live by accident when i went to see Bowie at Milton Keynes Bowl on his Serious Moonlight tour.

They were supporting , and i was impressed. This was the mid 80's and synth was big.

 

I was at one of those gigs too. I think there were 2 or 3 dates back to back. Weren’t The Beat doing support as well? I seem to remember them doing Mirror in the Bathroom and Stand Down Margaret.

Just as Icehouse reached the guitar solo in Hey Little Girl, his guitar cut out, poor bloke.

[fleabag]

The Beat - yes they were there too, although i went to Milton only because of Bowie. The Beat were not my thang, but Icehouse were teriffic

[SICbass]

Yeah, I was mostly there for Bowie too. It was his first tour after a long hiatus.