But i do remember i got into björk cause of of post. At music store. Vernon hills illinois.

@stevil- hahaha. Thanks for sharing. I was naughty, DJing in Amsterdam in 1999. A DJ friend came over from the UK with illicit minidiscs of all the latest tunes. One of them was a prerelease of Utopia. It was the music I had always wanted to hear but couldn't. Because nobody had made any up to that point. Instant devotion.

If you go on Facebook and read any of the Goldfrapp posts , theres always someone who starts their post stating that they got into them with FM... and they needed to share that with everyone for some reason as if they got a chocolate medal for it . Observes showoff knobhead/`normal person` FB ratio is skewed somewhat .

This is a bit like being on the couch at the trick cyclist's.
Mr Tribesman! The Dr will see you now.
Ah, yes! Come and lay here and tell me, when did this obsession with 'Goldfrapp?' start?
Well Doc. It was around May 2003 and we had recorded Jools Holland so we could fast forward through all the crap bits (some things never change). We came across a band with this curly haired blonde singer wearing a short skirt, thigh length boots and a black Kepi hat singing a song called Train and thought 'hey, this is different'. Skipping through more tosh, we then saw Black Cherry and Strict Machine with the singer slapping a Theramin about in a most sexy and suggestive way and I thought 'need to find more out about this', so went out and bought Black Cherry. I shared it with a mate and he said 'oh, I've got their first album, Felt Mountain' so we swapped and that was it - love baby! We then went to see them at the NEC supporting Duran Duran in April 2004 (we were there for them, not DD). Pretty lousy sound due to the huge arena, and only did 7 numbers I think and everyone around us was chatting and saying 'who the fuck is this and why is she wearing a horse's tail' but they were dumbfucks obviously. Then, bizarre coincidence. We has booked a holiday to Barcelona in May to go to the Grand Prix and I was on the old GF website and saw they were playing there. absolutely gob smacked to discover it was on the 2nd day we were there at the Sala Razamattaz! That's Kismet and I never go against the Gods. Booked tickets and that was a great, intimate gig.
The rest is 10 years of aural pleasure !
Hm! I think there is no cure for this condition Mr Tribesman. It's terminal so I suggest you just indulge it at every opportunity!
On your way out, can you send in the next patient please.

Urban_Tribesman said:

We don't seem to get good gig advertising posters to collect any more.

(cough) Reading, Hexagon, Laura and the raiding party

Official ToU details- check
Picture of Alison - check
Venue details - check

I think I've told this story before on the previous site but anyway...here goes...the first Goldrapp song I heard was "Black Cherry" on a MInistry of Sound Compilation in early 2000s. I was travelling with my husband and son (then baby) in the car one summer and we were playing this song over and over again and asking each other...why is this song not played everywhere? The next time I noticed Goldfrapp was the videos, when I was up at 3.00am doing parent duty and they were on the telly. To be honest, didn't really take to them visually at that stage...being a serious Kate Bush Fan, I finally "got" the visuals when I saw "Strict Machine"The visual in the mid 2000s...One thing really got me finally into Goldfrapp...itunes...my animal companion of 13 years died in the mid 2000s and I was distraught...itunes was new and I was like a kid in a candy shop...I stumbled upon the album "Felt Fountain" and I found a song that expressed my grief about my beloved Louis which is "Utopia"...Then ST was released which I devoured and then explored the back catalogue...both albums and visuals...

I saw Twist video on Dotmusic website - and then started exploring for more, found Strict Machine, then remembered seeing (and liking) video for Train, and then ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE!  :D