• Fad Gadget (redirect from Frank Tovey)
    dehumanization, often sung in a deadpan voice. As a child, Frank Tovey lived in Bow. His father, Frank Tovey, Sr. was a porter in Billingsgate Fish Market. At...
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  • electronic musician Fad Gadget, including releases under his actual name Frank Tovey. Lazell, Barry (1997). Indie Hits 1980–1989. Cherry Red Books. ISBN 0-9517206-9-4...
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  • would also be the last album released under the name Fad Gadget, due to Frank Tovey wishing to release under his real name. The album features tracks that...
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  • The project was the creation of Mute Records founder Daniel Miller. Frank Tovey was the band's fictional frontman. The "group" were publicised as a quartet...
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  • Snakes and Ladders is the fifth studio album by Frank Tovey. The 1986 release was the first album credited under his own name as opposed to Fad Gadget...
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  • Look up Tovey in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tovey is the surname of: Arthur Gordon Tovey (1901–1974), New Zealand artist Bramwell Tovey (born 1953)...
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  • Incontinent is the second album by Frank Tovey, better known as Fad Gadget, released in 1981. While developing the industrial sound of his debut Fireside...
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    Remembering Frank Tovey". Dazed. Retrieved 2 April 2023. Martynka Wawrzyniak: I tarred and feathered Fad Gadget's "Gag" vinyl record. Frank Tovey was known...
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  • released on the Mute Records label. Rice has also collaborated with Frank Tovey of Fad Gadget, Tony Wakeford of Sol Invictus and Michael Jenkins Moynihan...
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  • by Frank Tovey, the third under his real name, and was released on 13 May 1991. It is the first album to feature Irish band The Pyros, which Frank would...
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  • album of singles and 12" mixes released by Fad Gadget (the stage name of Frank Tovey). The album is split between singles and B-sides on disc one, and 12"...
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  • the long delayed release of Easy Listening for the Hard of Hearing by Frank Tovey and Boyd Rice. The album was originally recorded at Blackwing Studios...
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  • London. The album produced by Fad Gadget and John Fryer. Written by Frank Tovey for the most part concerning his fear for the future of the world, in...
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  • "Tupelo", Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (1985) [7”] Mute 39 - "Luxury", Frank Tovey (1985) [7”, 12”] Mute 40 - "Who Needs Love Like That", Erasure (1985)...
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    of the Fleet John Cronyn Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey, GCB, KBE, DSO (7 March 1885 – 12 January 1971), sometimes known as Jack Tovey, was a Royal Navy officer...
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  • (producer, engineer) 1985: Depeche Mode – Shake the Disease (engineer) 1985: Frank Tovey – Snakes & Ladders (engineer) 1986: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Kicking...
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  • New York dance group Grand Union (Firebird album), 2009 Grand Union (Frank Tovey album), 1991 Grand Union Flag, the first flag of the United States Grand...
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  • a country version on his album Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town. 1987: Frank Tovey performed the song on his album Tyranny & the Hired Hand. 1989: The Gas...
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  • Thomas The Ready Set Throwing Muses Johnny Thunders Tin Tin Tom Tom Club Frank Tovey The Tragically Hip (outside Canada) Tripmaster Monkey Tuff Darts Two...
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  • as the hanging place. It appears on the 1983 album Paddy Reilly Live. Frank Tovey performed the song on his album, Tyranny & the Hired Hand (1989). Steeleye...
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  • band Silicon Teens, with four imaginary band members: Darryl (played by Frank Tovey), Jacki, Paul, and Diane. The recordings were all recorded by Miller...
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    Records) 1981 Fad Gadget — Incontinent (Mute Records) 1981 Boyd Rice & Frank Tovey — Easy Listening for the Hard of Hearing (Mute Records) Recorded 1981...
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    Einstürzende Neubauten, with guests including Genesis P-Orridge, Stevo Pearce, Frank Tovey and others, played a show titled The Concerto for Voices and Machinery...
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  • – actor David Stone – para-cyclist Ben Thaler – Rugby league referee Frank Tovey – musician Andrew White – guitarist of Kaiser Chiefs Phil Willis – politician...
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  • Jools Holland "Brickfield Nights" by The Boys "Bridge St. Shuffle" by Frank Tovey "Bright Lights" by The Special AKA ("I got down to London and what did...
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  • Fcukingcontagious.net. Retrieved December 5, 2017. Strauss, Neil (April 15, 2002). "Frank Tovey, 46, Industrial-Music Innovator". The New York Times. Retrieved May 15...
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    "Johnny Tillotson: The EP Collection". AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-01-31. "Frank Tovey: Tyranny & the Hired Hand". Discogs. Retrieved 2011-01-29. Meyer, Richard...
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  • not make the mainstream charts. All tracks are written by Fad Gadget (Frank Tovey) Fad Gadget – voice synthesizer, tapes, drum machine, ashtray, metal...
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    years. In London, his Irish bluegrass band The Pyros teamed up with Frank Tovey (aka Fad Gadget) and recorded albums on Mute Records. Cutliffe helped...
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    Claus Larsen released a free song via his MySpace page, a remix of Frank Tovey taught me things. The song was subsequently downloaded over 10,000 times...
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