CD: WOU522
RELEASED: 2009
LABEL: WB

01. Forever Running
02. Heart Of Gold
03. My Ship Of Dreams
04. Just An Echo
05. Switch On Switch Off
06. Blind Allegiance
07. Artic Summer
08. Nowhere Girl

2009 CD reissue of this 1985 debut from British new wave band B-Movie. Forever Running is best known for featuring the band's FM radio favorite "Nowhere Girl". The band originally formed in 1978, fresh from the ashes of The Aborted, a local punk band. Originally calling themselves Studio 10 after a local hairdressing salon, the inaugural line-up of Steve Hovington (vocals/bass), Paul Statham (guitar) & Graham Boffey (drums) quickly changed their name to B-Movie following Steve's discovery in an art book of the Andy Warhol painting of the same name. Their early songs are a mixture between punkrock and new-wave (Joy Divison, Only Ones, Cure) with great melodies, clear structure and strong power. Though the band's first release dates back to 1980, it took five years and several singles for the band to cut a proper record, 1985's Forever Running. As a result of this, several versions of the same songs exist over the years, up until the band's demise soon after Forever Running appeared. Since then, these early singles have been often compiled, resulting in The Dead Good Tapes and Volume 1- Remembrance Days respectively. A BBC sessions disc also appeared in 2001. With all of this interest in the band's back catalog, the band decided to reunite for a handful of shows in 2007.