Behaviour Red - Ke Ke Ke Ke Ke Ya

Berlin Bromley/Bertie Marshalls band "Behaviour Red", 1982

"In 1980 you formed a new wave band called Behaviour Red. The band released a single single, in 1982, with a very gothic-looking Bertie Marshall ("Hands in an attitude of prayer" as you write in your fiction) on the cover. Could you talk to us a little about the band and its influences?"

Bertie: "Someone said I was like a combination of Siouxsie and Sid Vicious! Hump! I wanted to put poetry to music somehow. It was a four piece bass, drums, guitar and me on vocals and bits of percussion. I wrote all the words, of course. It was great for a while. The guitarist and I were good collaborators. He was blond with green eyes and sexy, we became blood brothers to the horror of his girlfriend. We played all over London in 81-82 in little clubs. That single ''kekekekyaya'' was nuts, a lot of screeching and tribal drumming and psychedelic guitar feedback. If I was copying dear Siouxsie, it wasn't conscious: I had a real and specfic interest in magic, voodoo... also heroin and make up. We were a pretty bunch of boys. It's essential to have pretty boys in pop/rock music. I yelled very loudly. Someone wanted to put out a single so we did it. It sold 300 copies and got played on John Peel's show and then that was that."

Category:

Music

Tags:

• berlin
• bromley
• contingent
• bertie
• marshall
• sid
• vicious
• siouxsie
• sioux
• new
• wave
• goth
• 1982

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