The More You Live, The More You Love

Some indept information about SkeletronicS, after I spoke with Alice Schreij. After Danny Shoshan released the single "What Did It?" under the name Skeleton, Alice and Danny met each other in the Netherlands and SkeletronicS was born. On the first single "Your Love Is Right" the record company forgot to mention her, which was set right on the 12" version of the single where she is credited as "assisted by Alice Schrey. On the second single Coming Alive she is mentioned as one of the co-writers of the song. Although more material was written during the short period the band existed, nothing of that got a proper release since the band broke up due to the hugh success in Italy and Spain (in both countries they scored a top 10 hit), which, looking back, came too quickly for the band. Nowadays Alice still works under the name of SkeletronicS, while Danny, returned to his native country Israel long ago. A couple of years ago Alice came into poss...

And that brings us to Volume 32 of An Introduction To Dutch New Wave. This time 65% of the numbers came from recent purchased vinyl. I will keep telling that Discogs has become a major resource for discovering and hunting vinyl from bands and artists, that sometimes released one single only. But since a couple of weeks I am using a great cross reference site called Nederlandse vinylsingles . The guys behind this site are doing a great job, tracking down all Dutch vinyl singles. Some information on several songs. The Kimono track is spelled wrong. I kept it this way, since the cover of the single shows the same title. It’s one of the groups of which I used the single b-side instead of the a-side. The others are Blackout (b-side of Obscure Disco), G.T. Modell (b-side of Scratch Your Act) and Weekend At Waikiki (b-side of The Valley). Frederic And The Flies was a one off project by producer duo Bolland and Bolland. Not only the group name refers to Adam And The Ants, t...