Quintessence of New Wave (1 of ??) (Rockstars in the Nuddy - slight unsightly return's return)

It wasn't just an Old Wave thing, clearly - getting the kit off - it was  a New Wave thing too

Or perhaps just a Sounds  thing. 

I don't remember NME or Melody Maker ever going in for this. 

Jape continued on the inside spread with this Two Virgins parody I'm assuming.

 

The Damned's career is quintessentially New Wave through and through -  entertaining second-rank punk, utterly unthreatening 

This one's my favorite (not the lyrical first bit so much as the single version proper, the jolly punk-it-up part) (although the lyrical first section is wonderfully unexpected)

Harmless fun innit. 

Rebranded as Sixties-epigones

Vanian's look - which comes out of Rocky Horror Show - is said by some to be antecedent to Goth.

Meanwhile Captain Sensible dwarfs the parent band's success

Allied with the mimsy Dolly Mixtures.

Capn Sensi should have formed his own political party, a la Monster Raving Loony and Screaming Lord Sutch. Stood as an MP. 

Maybe he did? 

Altern-8  - who belong in this lineage assuredly - did.  A platform of free raves for the under-10s, subsidized Vicks - something along those lines. It's in E-Flash, I can't be bothered to look it up.

He looks a bit like Harpo Marx. 

I should do Max Splodge next. (Bushell placed Slodgenessabounds at the head of a phenom he called La Punk Pathetique).

Then Tenpole Tudor.