Monospark

Strathroy

In Canada, in the 80’s, I was that guy in school who introduced my friends to the ‘cool’ music as I didn’t listen to contemporary stuff. Some they accepted like Howard Jones, OMD, ABC, Alphaville and Duran Duran (which I discovered before they took off). Being that my friends were mostly women I lost them to the boybands of the era. So I continued with “my’ music of A flock of seagulls, Yello, Peter Murphy, Cocteau Twins, Japan, Art of Noise, Rational Youth, Men Without hats, Trans-x, Strange Advance, Cabaret Voltaire, The Beloved , Depeche Mode and yes even Wang Chung! Anything that had an electric connection but outside the norm was my jam. Later I expanded to different genres. Not a hard guitar guy but I really loved Sisters of Mercy and The Cure of course. Got into Industrial with early Ministry, Skinny Puppy and Front line Assembly. This was furthered when made a friend in the states. He would come up and visit his girlfriend (my friends next door) and we were both into ma