Pink Industry - Part 1

By the end of the year 1980, after the release of ‘Do animals Believe in God?’, Jayne Casey’s discontent/unease with Pink Military started to come to the surface: after experimenting whatever was possible at the time, the traditional band structure guitar-bass-drums (despite the mobility of the members) was perceived as an obstacle to Casey’s creativity, forcing all possible inspiration to have to comply with rock’n’roll standards. Casey was more keen on technology and experimentation.
In the same period, Ambrose Reynolds was looking for something different. After the split of the school band the O’Boogie Brothers (1976-77), where he played together with Ian Broudie, Ambrose and ex-members of that same band (Nathan McGough on vocals, and Jon Moss on drums) teamed up with Wayne Hussey to form the short-lived act Walkie Talkies (June 1978- Nov. 79). After that, for a short period of time he played bass with Nightmares in Wax, before joining forces with Holly Johnson, Phil Hurst (ex co-member in NIW), and later Steve Lovell recording demos under the name of Hollycaust. The band changed the name to Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and changed line-up as well, when Johnson recruited Brian Nash on guitar and Peter Gill on drums - with whom he had briefly played in 1981 under the name of Dancing Girls – to form the Sons of Egypt, the nucleus of what would become a year later Frankie Goes to Hollywood as we know it.
Casey and Ambrose teamed at the end of 1981. The duo combined the "anything goes" ethics of post-punk with experimental electronics, they produced a very laid-back, spacious, liquid music, combining textured layers of electronics, simple bass-lines and drum machine, ages before Massive Attack. In the beginning other contributors came and left with some frequency (especially when needed to record their first BBC Peel session), but soon the group established their line-up as a duo, exploiting Ambrose ability as multi-instrumentalist.
And as a duo they produced (on their own Zulu Records):

Forty-five EP (Feb 1982)

- Is This The End
- 47
- Don't Let Go
- Final Cry


New Technology (1983)

- I Wish
- New Aims
- Don't Let Go
- Creaking Doors
- Enjoy The Pain
- Savage
- Send Them Away
- Remove The Stain
- Heavenly
- Is This The End