B-Movie (band)

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b-Movie
Background information
Origin	Mansfield, England
Genre(s)	Synthpop Alternative dance New Romantic New Wave
Years active	1979–1985, 2006
Label(s)	Sound Bizzare Wax Sire Cherry Red Griffin Warner Platinum
Associated acts	Six Sed Red
Former members
Steve Hovington Paul Statham Graham Boffey Rick Holliday

b-Movie were a futurist band from Mansfield active in the first half of the 1980s.They were signed to the Some Bizarre record label and had a track "Moles" featured on the original Some Bizarre compilation album.

In 1981 they had their biggest UK commercial success when their single "Remembrance Day" reached 61 in the UK charts narrowly missing out on a crucial Top Of The Pops TV appearance.The follow up single "Marilyn Dreams" failed to chart.

In 1982 they released "Nowhere Girl" which made the Top 10 in many European countries and reached 68 in the United Kingdom, but there was no follow up and no sign of an album. The popular webcomic Nowhere Girl was named after this single.

Keyboard player Rick Holliday left in 1983 to form Six Sed Red with Soft Cell associate Cindy Ecstasy.The rest of the band re-surfaced in 1984 with the single "A letter From Afar"produced by John "Jellybean" Benitez but this failed to chart. Towards the end of 1985 they finally released an album with Sire Records called "Forever Running" containing re-recorded versions of the two hits but both it and the single "Switch On Switch Off" were flops despite a tour to promote them.

The band broke up soon after. Singer Steve Hovington formed a band called One in the late 80s but they were even less successful.

Ultimately they probably failed because their dark melancholy sound was unattractive to daytime radio producers while being too melodically accessible to appeal to the student audiences for bands such as Joy Division or The Sisters of Mercy.

After a long hiatus, in March, 2006 b-Movie performed at the club The Metro in London.