Artist: Wavestar
P: 1985 / 2018
Hot on the heels of 2018’s release of the WAVESTAR II: ‘Nightwinds’ album, comes this rare archive recording of the original WAVESTAR line-up in performance at the UK Electronica in 1985, where the band brought the house down with their debut ‘live’ performance!
WAVESTAR first came to the attention of Synth Music fans via Denis and Jeanette Emsley, two of the UK’s main EM supporters who ran the cassette-based magazine: ‘Inkeys’ and Lotus Records in Newcastle-Under-Lyme, the EM mail-order firm run by Andy Garibaldi in the early 80’s. As well as being instrumental in bringing bands like WAVESTAR to the attention of the record buying public, Andy G was also heavily involved with the Emsleys in running ‘UK Electronica’, an annual day-long Electronic Music festival - an event where fans could experience music from artists and bands involved in the genre that they would not otherwise get a chance to see, as well as enjoy music retail stands selling EM titles that were only ever available via mail-order and could not be found in any “normal” record shop. This WAVESTAR performance captured at UKE Sheffield University on Saturday, August 24th 1985 was their first exposure to a ‘live’ audience, so many did not know what to expect, but by the end of the show the whole place was won over by the exciting new music they had just heard that seemed to bundle strong melody and “Berlin School” sequencing into one mighty glitter ball scintillating synth music! The set featured tracks from the duo’s first two cassette releases: ‘Mind Journey’ (1984) and ‘Zenith’ (1985) and includes a rousing rendition of the track that was to become the bands iconic anthemic encore piece: ‘Time Node’. The core WAVESTAR duo on stage was John Dyson (guitar / keyboards) and Dave Ward-Hunt (sequencing / keyboards), and they were joined on stage for tech/fx help from Tim Dyson (John’s nephew) and Shaun D’Lear, a friend who went on in later years to assist as a member of John Dyson’s band for his solo concert performances. From there on it was somewhat of a meteoric rise to fame for WAVESTAR throughout the late 80’s Electronic Music scene, culminating in their signing to US based Record Company: Jem / Passport Records. The label’s electronic music imprint: Audion, run by Larry “Synergy” Fast, was to be the first to release WAVESTAR’s classic 3rd album ‘Moonwind’ internationally in 1987, and on three formats: LP, CD and Cassette! Everyone who owns the three 80’s WAVESTAR albums and the recent WAVESTAR II comeback album will want to own this amazing piece of early “warts and all” UK Electronic Music history.
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