What image do you think the guys should go with?
Vienna / Rage In Eden...(Which is virtually the same look!)

Quartet?

Lament?

Any idea where we could obtain the gear for this...we may be able to have most of it made to spec?

Regards...
Wee

I'd go for the Rage In Eden look - Classical 30's clothes. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Cool]" src="cool.gif" /> A good starting point for these are your local charity shops or theatrical costumier's (bound to be spelt wrong).

Failing that go for a consistant monochrome look (Black Combat Trews or Chino's with white or black pilot's shirts). That'll get you started.

Tough question. I think I would go for the more "normal" look of the Lament-era. The question is: do You prefer long or short hair?

By the way: Mike, any chance that You'll have a grey Ibanez one day?

Nils, I'll take any sort of hair, long or short....

As for the grey Ibanez, yes it will happen....I just have to get the right guitar....I'm looking

I'd go for the Vienna/Rage In Eden look. I like the double breasted suits and the makeup.

Mrs. X

This would probably work the best for the authentic "tribute band" look. Its the image that most people will remember Ultravox for (here in the UK anyway).

And it looked pretty snappy too. But really, I didn't like the high-waisted balloon trousers and all that. Rather tacky. I liked the more sophisticated image of 1980/81.

Mrs. X

The Vienna / Rage in Eden look is wonderful, but the stuff can be hard to come by - believe me, I love it and look for it but rarely find it these days. Get it right and it looks superb, get it wrong and it looks like a second-rate school production of "Bugsy Malone". Years a-gone you could pick it up at any jumble sale for under 50p (literally: I got my coat and tails for 15p, inside it bears the legend "Tailors to the Egyptian Legation", real mid-century stuff). I've still got a decent pin-striped double-breasted demob-type suit, no labels, but for some reason the waist seems to have shrunk since I last wore it. I remember looking everywhere for a brown pin-striped suit of a similar age as Midge ahd one at the time, but never found one. The Quartet look might be easier and allow more interpretative leeway. Or how about the Pink Thing Era - just buy a twenty quid set of Argos hair clippers and wear your own clothes . . . I'll get me coat.

Well, guys - if you need any assistance for the REAP THE WILD WIND look, ask the expert here...

I'd go for it!

And no moustaches, please!!

Hi chaps

Well, if you've the resources, you could change to suit your audience:

1980: Vienna album cover thin lapel'd suits (which always remind me of 'Shoestring' for some odd reason)...

1981: R•I•E plus-fours(...nahhhh, too Haircut 100...), Foxx Garden-era waistcoats and Victoriana shirts (?), Thin Wall video Casablanca chic, etc...

1982: Quartet...er....fashionzzzz? OK: For Quartet go with the Reap The Wild Wind ethic: WWI & WWII military clobber, but British only (you simply have to redress the whole Private Ryan / Band of Brothers historical singularity). Remember: any of you dress as squaddies and you'd better really blanco that webbing or there'll be hell to pay!...

1984: Lament...a bit up in the air really. How about the David Bailey group shot? You know: the one in black and white? Everybody happy and laughing...and black is sooo slimming ...

1986: repeat after me: "There was NO 1986!!!"

No, Cromwell, there was no 1986. Except for THE CULT: "Love", the album, excellent!!!

And, of course, THE SMITHS: "The Queen is Dead". Green vinyl.

And so on.

But NO - there was no 1986 for UUUUUUUULTRAVOX!

Hmmn... rabbit

Oh God, you crack me up!!!

Mrs. X

Ha haaaaaaaaaa, Mrs. X!!! You thought the rabbit was referring to UUUUUUUUUUUULTRAVOX!!!

But it wasn't... hehe

Oh. Damn! I don't wanna know then... :p

Mrs. X

1986 was really when "The 80s" was ending, i.e most people's memory of it entails up to about '85. in the way that "the 60s" in people's minds is about 1965 to 69 at most {hippy era). Getting to the point, any look other than the longhaired one would get my vote. cheers Grant

Too true, Grant...
I was putting a set together for an 80s gig in June and the vast majority of the songs date from 1980-85.

Doesn't really matter which era you opt for, try Armstrongs in Edinburgh (in the grassmarket and South Clerk Street) they sell lots of vintage clothing and ex-milatary gear! Good luck!

Website doesn't really do it justice but here: http://www.grassmarket.net/featured/Armstrongs.htm and http://www.armstrongsvintage.co.uk/ Hope this helps??!! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Cool]" src="cool.gif" />

Found a place today boys to get what you need, will discuss it with Sleepy tonight

No moustaches please...

Actually, I think they should ALL have pointy sideburns!

Thanks for your advice guys
I'll take a wee trip up town on friday and have a browse in Armstrong's etc & see what they have

Maybe there's a competition in here? "Design a Look for the Monument Boys", incorporating elements of looks gone by, a tip of the trilby to images we knew plus a wee streak of something new (. . . and something sinful?), how evolution might have worked had not extinction supervened.

Just a thought.

Looks from the past? Just as long as they avoid shell suites and mullets! lol

ok, my vote is for the manky sweatshirts circa "Systems of Romance" !! grant

There once was a band which was very successful with this image:
Also just a thought
Also just a thought Part II

lol, don't give them any ideas Nils!!!! ROFLMAO!

Hmmmm...

Tommy - The cowboy
Don - The policeman
Mike - The construction worker
Davy - The leather-clad biker



Mrs. X

So who gets to be the Indian?

Anyone one got a studded peaked leather cap???? preferably with chains...lol

Who's for a pint down the blue oyster??

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Davy B:
<strong> </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Mrs. X:
<strong>Hmmmm...

Tommy - The cowboy
Don - The policeman
Mike - The construction worker
Davy - The leather-clad biker

I'd Love...................a Babycham !!

Davy

Get back in that closet, Baillie....!

Hehe, matching your belt, you mean...? I actually liked that.

Ari: 68 times, eh?

hard to suggest better than Nils did, but I was looking on the web and found some (un)useful sources of (un)inspiration

http://www.ruthlessreviews.com/top10/10blackmetal.html

Ooooh...interesting images there! Out of all of them, I'd have to say that #4 and #5 are my favourites.

How about it, guys? Goth-metal Ultravox?

Mrs. X

Hehe, as far as I remember there was an Ultravox bassplayer who wore such a thing at least at one gig :rolleyes: .

Maybe Blankes and Copeland?

Classic Stuff!

[/b]That's exactly what I was thinking of when I thought Davy should be the biker. 'Course Midge had one too, but when I saw the cop with the mirrored sunglasses, I thought...THAT is what Mike should wear...

Mrs. X

"Native American" if u dont mind Helen !! and the peace pipe is still burning.......

This is fatastic, Mehdi!!!!!!!!!

How hilarious!!!!!!! They look grotesque!!!

...and they look quite schwul (no offence, though)...

Made my first purchase yesterday - a pair of silver shirt bands...currently looking for a camel coloured waistcoat, blue pinstriped high waisted trousers...I'm gonna look like a total jack and danny. Michael, Dave, Tommy, need your shirt, waist and chest sizes please by Tuesday at the latest...oor Sassy and I will get ya's sorted....unless you want to look like the feckin ant hill mob, get back to me on this please...I can just see the video shoot, picture us screamin round the corner in the PT Cruiser, hangin from the runner boards toting tommy guns and tipping our fedora's, this thing is getting more ridiculous by the minute, I actually walk about the house in a smoking jacket, I woke at 4 this morning shouting things like Bandits at 12 o'clock ginger, and wondering where I had misplaced my ration book...Might I be taking this to far????

Oi Michael send oor Sassy those songs mate!!

Fantastic! That "late entry" at Number One looks like teh bastard offspring of Dr Seuss' Grinch and a badger after one alcopop too many. Ah, well, I suppose it's something for him to show his grandchildren.

Good luck with the outfitting, it sounds as if interesting things are afoot. In fact, reading the latest post, I had a pair of pin-stripe trousers of immaculate cut and 1930s vintage that someone "borrowed" to get a copy made. I never saw them again, but rumour has it that he wore them at his wedding, the cheeky sod. If I ever get them back you can have first refusal if the size is right! Mind you, you'll sweat like a pig ( no offence, CP ) if you wear them on stage, that 30s stuff was made before we had global warming.

How about a burberry trenchcoat for Mike, or is that just too obvious?! <img border="0" alt="[Suave]" title="" src="graemlins/suave.gif" /> Another suggestion, have you had a wee look on ebay? If you type in "vintage" under clothes and you tones of stuff coming up! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Cool]" src="cool.gif" /> Oh and incidently, I have a camel coloured wastecoat, if your interested?

maybe just a little...the good fellas spring to mind

No songs from Michael yet (hint, hint) :p

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Sleepwalker:
<strong>Made my first purchase yesterday - a pair of silver shirt bands...currently looking for a camel coloured waistcoat, blue pinstriped high waisted trousers...I'm gonna look like a total jack and danny. Michael, Dave, Tommy, need your shirt, waist and chest sizes please by Tuesday at the latest...oor Sassy and I will get ya's sorted....unless you want to look like the feckin ant hill mob, get back to me on this please...I can just see the video shoot, picture us screamin round the corner in the PT Cruiser, hangin from the runner boards toting tommy guns and tipping our fedora's, this thing is getting more ridiculous by the minute, I actually walk about the house in a smoking jacket, I woke at 4 this morning shouting things like Bandits at 12 o'clock ginger, and wondering where I had misplaced my ration book...Might I be taking this to far????

Talking about "Monument Image"...

Well literaly, I have some cracking stuff you all out there might find interesting. In Crewe I used my small pocket camera (Canon Ixus 500) as a video mode to capture 1 gb of stuff. I used Final Cut Pro to mess around with that stuff, and the result....WOW! You all have to see.

I used Mike´s recordings from Citrus Club as a sound, and spent hours after hours to adjust "lipsynch" to make these live videos enjoyable.
I made two videos; "Hymn" & "All Stood Still", plus I made one slide show as well; images from Citrus & Greenock plus images from Crewe with "Vienna". I also did exellent looking DVD-menu.

Please, sent me you add details and I will sent you a copy.

I hope you don´t mind Monument Boys!

Old friends also (paul, don, mike L....) please sent me your add details as well, ´since I change my internet operator while ago, my old posts have all been deleted.

You are going to like/love this DVD!!!! Believe me!!!!

Cheers for all, ari

P.S. Silence from my part few weeks is because my life has been harder than ever before... Tell you later. But this dvd I made gave me the reason to think totally something else and it was my pleasure to make it. First I thought I put these files (videos) on internet, but ´cause they are such an amazing stuff (both quality and editing) I really wanted you all have these as a good quality copy, not as poor internet copy.