![]() ![]() Robbie Grey toured the US with a new Modern English lineup from 1998 to 2002. This lineup recorded the 1996 album Everything's Mad. In 1995, with legal issues with TVT sorted out, Engine evolved into the next incarnation of Modern English and signed to the Imago label, with Grey and Matthew Shipley (keyboards). The band split up for a second time in 1991, after contractual problems with TVT, and Grey formed Engine. The album featured a re-recorded "I Melt with You", which was released as a single, and saw the band again in the Billboard top 100. Robbie Grey re-formed Modern English with Mick Conroy and Aaron Davidson in 1989 to record a new album, Pillow Lips, released in 1990 on the American TVT label. During 1983–1984, Grey, McDowell and Conroy were also involved with This Mortal Coil. The album Stop Start (1986) was the last Modern English record released by Sire, the band splitting up after its release. The band relocated to New York City and worked on a third album, Ricochet Days, which again made the top 100 in the US, after which the band left 4AD and were solely signed to Sire outside the UK and Canada. When he reviewed the album, Johnny Waller of Sounds described the track as "A dreamy, creamy celebration of love and lust, which deserves to be showcased on as 12" single all by itself, with no B-side", while his colleague Tony Mitchell described it as "suburban amateurism at its most unrewarding". The second single from the album was also a hit in the US, " I Melt with You" reaching number 76. We're artists!', but things don't always turn out as you planned and when you actually create a pop record, it's so much more of a thrill than anything else". Grey said of the album, "We used to think 'God, we'll never make a pop record. It was also released in the US by Sire Records the following year, where it reached number 70 on the Billboard chart, and sold over 500,000 copies. The second album, After the Snow (April 1982), was more keyboard-oriented and was compared to Simple Minds and Duran Duran. A second Peel session was recorded in October 1981. In the band's early days, they showed a strong Joy Division influence. Īfter a single on their own 'Limp' label (not to be confused with America's Limp Records) in 1979, the band signed to 4AD the following year with two further singles released, and a session for John Peel of BBC Radio 1 recorded before the band's debut album, Mesh & Lace, in 1981. The group expanded to "Modern English" when Richard Brown (drums) and Stephen Walker (keyboards) were added to the lineup of the band. Formed in Colchester, Essex, in 1979 by Robbie Grey (vocals), Gary McDowell (guitar, vocals), and Michael Conroy (bass, vocals) (born 9 August 1962), Modern English were originally known as The Lepers. ![]()
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