{"id":19856,"date":"2020-07-03T16:24:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T15:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=19856"},"modified":"2020-07-03T18:06:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T17:06:03","slug":"4-hours-by-clock-dva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2020\/07\/03\/4-hours-by-clock-dva\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Hours by Clock DVA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sleeve by Neville Brody.<\/em><\/p>\n

After mentioning Clock DVA’s Thirst<\/em> (1981) a couple of days ago I’ve been playing the album together with Pow-Wow<\/em> ever since. 4 Hours<\/em><\/a> was Thirst<\/em>‘s accompanying 7-inch single, a marvellous slice of rumbling post-punk angst. The B-side, Sensorium<\/em><\/a>, includes the words “Uptown apocalypse” among its lyrics, a phrase that’s also the title of the second track<\/a> on the equally marvellous Music For Stowaways<\/em> (1981), an instrumental album by the post-Human League, pre-Heaven 17 offshoot British Electric Foundation. This isn’t a coincidence; the latter number was co-written by Clock DVA’s Adi Newton, and features him playing guitar and synth, Newton having been in The Future with BEF’s Marsh & Ware prior to the formation of Clock DVA and The Human League. And to further complicate this tangle of Sheffield connections, 4 Hours<\/em> was reissued in 1985 in 12-inch format on Cabaret Voltaire’s Doublevision label. I bought almost all the Doublevision releases but this was one I missed. (Was the title of Cabaret Voltaire’s Sensoria<\/em> derived from Sensorium<\/em>? Maybe…)<\/p>\n

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Sleeve by Neville Brody. After mentioning Clock DVA’s Thirst (1981) a couple of days ago I’ve been playing the album together with Pow-Wow ever since. 4 Hours was Thirst‘s accompanying 7-inch single, a marvellous slice of rumbling post-punk angst. The B-side, Sensorium, includes the words “Uptown apocalypse” among its lyrics, a phrase that’s also the … Continue reading “4 Hours by Clock DVA”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: 4 Hours by Clock DVA","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29,3],"tags":[10745,10744,150,4248,10735,10743,149,10746,2624],"class_list":["post-19856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronica","category-music","tag-adi-newton","tag-british-electric-foundation","tag-cabaret-voltaire","tag-clock-dva","tag-fetish-records","tag-heaven-17","tag-neville-brody","tag-the-future-group","tag-the-human-league"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5ag","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}