Talk:The Korgis
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This overview of the Korgis is in much need of expansion. It is also incorrect in some areas. So here are my add ons:
There needs to be a mention of the fact that Rialto records was a succesful small independent. The label scored its first hit with The Korgis formed after the break up of Stackridge. Rialto had top 10 hits with The Regents and The Mobiles and as well as two hits with The Korgis. After Andy Davis left the band, unhappy with the direction James Warren was dictating, the band's output became notably more sentimental but produced the hit "Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime'. Davis meanwhile formed Slow Twitch Fibres with Peter Brandt with the support of Rialto Records. The Korgis later records made little impression -- in reality the grittiness of Davis was a missing factor and they never regained momentum or achieved any chart success again.
Nevertheless James Warren continued to use the Korgis name and resurfaced in 1982 with 'Don't Look Back' on London Records and this was produced by Trevor Horn. He also moved to Sonet records in 1985 where the Korgis again recorded 'Burning Questions' and 'True Life Confessions'. These were Korgis and not solo releases. none of these recordings charted and the band fizzled out.
Mmmmmm sorry but I d not agree with some of this, but we are all entitled to a difference of opinion. I believe that it was James Warren's plaintive pop songs that gave the Korgis their only hits. It was I think a lack of a decent image in the early 80s that held them back. Rialto Records promoted them as hard as a small label could -- obtaining worldwide releases for their records and funding videos by Russel Mulcahy amongst others. At the end of the day any band is only as good as their repertoire and The Korgis best "If I Had You' [melody pinched from a Rachmaninov composition] and "Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime' did the trick -- later releases were pleasant but simply not addictive enough to get the public out there buying. Bands claim many reasons for their respective failures but in the end its all about the songs.
What rubbish!! It isn't 'just about the songs' at all. 'All the love in the world' and 'I just can't help it' were as good as earlier songs. The fact is that Rialto was struggling as a label and Tim and Chris Heath never had the ability to get decent airplay or promotion for these singles. Distribution via Pye / PRT didn't help either. I know this because I worked in music retail at this time. The BMRB Charts were always being fixed by labels with money like WEA who regularly 'hyped' the Top 40.
- James Warren also stated in 2004 that they failed to capitilaise on the siccess of the first two singles, and made a big mistake by not touring, missing out a big chance of promoting their records and marketing their repertoire.
SOMEBODY ELSE WRITES: The tone of this article is, in places, that of a fanzine piece, not that of an encyclopaedia entry. It needs someone to be cruel to it.Notreallydavid 15:56, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Alan Wilder
(this track, incidentally, featured the accompaniment of future Depeche Mode/Recoil member Alan Wilder). <--(No it did not)-->.
Articles are no place for discussion. The question however remains unanswered: did Alan Wilder ever team up with the Korgis?
Absolutely not. Though he was a friend of Andy Davis who played in a contemporary band called Dafne and The Tenderstops.
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[edit] New Wave
How the flip are the Korgis a New Wave act?
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