Can anyone identify this band?

Can anyone ID this band, please? I thought it might be Rip, Rig And Panic. pic.twitter.com/tIVTmMB8g7

— Andrew Harrison (@Nndroid) November 15, 2020

That's Andi Oliver front right so it must be Rip Rig and Panic.

https://rocknerd.co.uk/2018/02/19/king-trigger-the-river-1982/kingtriggernme/

i don't think it is Andi Oliver, and no Gareth Sager, Bruce Smith, Mark Springer or Neneh Cherry so pretty sure it isn't RR&P.

^King Trigger

Could be King Trigger. I see they get mentioned in the thread. I know zilch about them.

Ha! A bit of Googling reveals I might actually have seen them live supporting The Thompson Twins.

Scroll down for a pic. Although that is not the lineup I remember.

https://rocknerd.co.uk/2018/02/19/king-trigger-the-river-1982/comment-page-1/

Thanks.

Someone from King Trigger went on the thread to say it wasn't them.

is that the "Our Trudi was tiny..." comment? i thought that was him confirming it :)

someone called Ian Cleverly from KT responds to two different posts. I can't see the Trudi comment!

ah, i can see his "It’s not, honest" comment now. i couldn't before. the mystery continues....

this photo has been bothering me for two whole days now. so familiar, it feels like i might have even owned a record by this lot at some point. anyone want to make a guess as to the year or the genre of music they made?

Considering the preponderance of hats (well, two) I'm guessing the genre is something along the lines of Brit Funk or "jazz-funk", along the lines of Freez, Level 42 or 52nd Street.

lad on the left has a real look of Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot but i don't think it's them

I feel like if we're not guessing it correctly based on the Lad on the Left we're never going to get it...

Ha otm, we need to identify blurry face glasses guy, that's the key imo.

The American version of that group (cause I'm assuming they're British) would be The Breakfast Club, therefore mid-'80s r&b/dance

What do you think of this?

left to right: guitar, drums, bass, vox, keyboards

Lad on the left definitely has a bit of the Ben Volpeliere-Pierrots about him.

Timewise it could be up to late 80s i reckon - I'm going to throw a wild guess at 1987. for a minute i was thinking possibly Acid Jazzers but probably not sharp dresssed enough.

mullet guy in the centre and the guy on the right who looks like he has teleported in from the back of a 1979 new wave album are really confusing me

maybe tag https://twitter.com/ben_volpeliere ?

i've just discovered after googling that BVP didn't do anything beyond Curiosity so i don't see how it can be him but it's that look, like Stirmonster said i'd put these anywhere between 83-ish and as late as 90/91

Main vibe I'm getting is support slot with Animal Nightlife / one single on a chrysalis records subsidiary and never heard from again

Pretty sure Gilles Peterson would know the answer.

yeah or Eddie Pillar. was just thinking Acid Jazzy looking.

That is absolutely not BVP.

alternate universe Scritti

Counterfitti Politti

There’s a reply on there suggesting it’s Andrea Oliver and a band she formed or was ‘involved in’ after Rip Rig + Panic. The band, Kalimba, are mentioned on her WP page, described as ‘African inspired’. There’s an entry for a band of that name in something called Rockmine, some sort of online music encyclopedia, where it lists the five members of the band. I can’t find any pictures of them, nor any other mentions. Nothing on Discogs that I could find (including no mention under Andrea Oliver). Seems a bit hard to believe such a band would never have released anything. Other members were (from ‘Rockmine’ page) ‘Guy Batey - bass; Pete Dungerian [must be spelled wrong as no Google results] - guitar, harmonica, saxophone; Andy Norton - guitar; Andrea Oliver - vocals; Tintin - drums’. I suppose you could say the guy on the left looks a bit like the character Tintin. But the whole thing might be a giant red herring.

Not heard of Kalimba before, but it might not have been the best choice of name considering that Kalima may already have been on the indie jazz funk scene by then

Kalimba is a musical instrument. I see Kalima was named after a track by Elvin Jones. 'Kalimba' is a popular choice of name: on Discogs there are about 13 bands or artists called that. None of them correspond to the one in question.

I thought the Kalimba name was familiar but then realised I was thinking of Kalima.
Almost certainly at least one of these people ended up playing in a band that released something on Acid Jazz, possibly a lone track on a compilation.

hmmm. i was convinced it wasn't Andrea Oliver but perhaps it is. (sorry Jed)

either guy in hat / cap are a shoo in for being on that lone track on an Acid Jazz comp.

Tall guy in the broad-brimmed hat absolutely reeks of fretless bass

Are we sure this isn't 4 Jacks And A Jill?

lol great band

pretty sure spikey hair shades is 80s Mickey Rourke now i've stared at him

The one at the back looks like Bruce Wooley

But seeing as none of the others look like Thomas Dolby...

Middle Mullet Man looks a bit like Rolo McGinty, which made me think of the Woodentops (who were also fond of hats) but this ain't them...

does anyone have a clue about where they might be? If it's Kalimba, they were from Brighton - could be that some kind of pier/entertainment park location?

i'm in brighton but i don't recognise the location tbh. the high roof and the good light make me think they're in a railway station or similar? outdoors but not quite outside

Here's andi oliver's twitter, I'm convinced it's her but I could easily be wrong. https://twitter.com/andisn16

C’mon, the guy in the back with the hat is clearly Zach Braff.

Sault

actually i sent that my picture to my mate in the police who's going to run it through some facial recognition software for us, so we should have the real answer shortly

holy shit i can't believe this

literally shaking here

oops

https://i.ibb.co/RcgR1q1/spooky.jpg

hahaha!

Probably heralded in an old I. D or Face magazine.
Look like they would be an upcoming band of the month like.

Will be really funny when it's discovered they're not a band but the cast of some kitchen sink coming of age play.
That or the undercover mod squad du jour
Acid Jazz squad?

Wondered if it might be a photo of one member of a bunch of different bands, for a "scene round-up" type article.

fascinated by this, following

^ same

Pretty sure Gilles Peterson would know the answer.

lol, my first reaction. or rob galliano. i'm friends with a guy who used to jam with him. i'm asking him

It’s not hard too find pictures of Inflo (Sault) but there’s not much:

Inflo and I spent the last couple of years producing the new @michaelkiwanuka album. The first song "You Ain't the Problem" featured on the the updated playlist. https://t.co/sOR36hkqmd

(we see you Kennie Takahashi) pic.twitter.com/FPWGf7it8Y

— Danger Mouse Jukebox (@DangerMouseJuke) August 19, 2019

#inflo pic.twitter.com/Y5y4VhsQJg

— Tom Odell (@tompeterodell) October 22, 2014

There used to be more and he had a twitter account @inflo1st that he deleted a while ago.

A few years back my partner discovered this album because it contains a song with the same name as a @fotc song (Feel Inside and Stuff Like That). Maybe one of my music nerd friends can solve the mystery before the year ends. Like @tcarmody or @keyescore https://t.co/1XCbsgrxEt

— Bethany Klein (@bethanylklein) December 23, 2020

My theory: the artist name & album/song titles are just mis-tags which is causing most of the confusion. I'd focus more on the actual lyrics to id the artist, which is basically just a bedroom demo?

is there a general thread for bands looking stylish? i just found this picture of Dislocation Dance and it really needs to go somewhere

https://newhormones.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/dis-dance-washington-april-82-1.jpg

I think all the song titles are taken from 2012 songs, lol.

How would the album's title and songs be mistagged? I don't know how this stuff works.

Code being broken? Possibly unheard iLoveMakonnen (?) demos?

MP3s have metadata and some infamous music software programs with v. poor database resolution have been known to haphazardly reassign various fields in the metadata.

Like this is the likely where the artist/"album" name comes from (a karaoke track of the Nicki song):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J18_g8dY8oA

It appears the OP demo's metadata got replaced by this (and various other 2012 hits) metadata.

We actually had a thread on ILM/Noize about MP3-mistagging during the filesharing heyday but I can't find it.

Gah, just heard this classic but minor new wave track whose artist is totally slipping my mind. Essentially in the power pop zone, no synths that I recall, has a chorus that goes "that's what all the people say" or "that's what other people say." Sounds like it could be 1979 or early '80s, totally brain farting away from an answer.

"What Do All the People Know" by the Monroes?

Oh, duh, yeah! This is the one! Thanks! What a great tune.