Met him once @ Maria del Mar's booze can @ Queen & Broadview, off the Don Valley Parking lot. Maria was the cigarette girl @ RPM when she wasn't lead singer of National Velvet.
The lead singer has a powerful voice. Wow, what a class act. Fantastic single. Might approach them for permission to use this song on a film I am bringing out later this year.
I'm unlucky that I never heard these guys in long Island, but moved to lake ontario in 2012, discovered FM, Images in Vogue, and Keith Hampshires Music Machine. I am hearing music brand new to me, yet INSTANTLY familiar. WOW!!!!
Cevin Key from Skinny Puppy was in this band and video (he's the guy playing electronic drums). He left this band to make less poppy music. Both bands were produced by Dave Ogilvie too. Only one of those bands doesn't suck.......i'll give you a hint, it's not the one im commenting on the video of right now.
@@milkcarton6654 come on first couple of IIV albums were pretty good for the time. Puppy, well, puppy is PUPPY. There can be no other. Ken Marshall, their producer, has a pretty good YT channel these days if music production is your thing.
I thought they were from the UK. It has a very 80's movie, brat pack sound. Cool that they are from my country of Canada. The lead singer has a very UK, Pogues voice.Catchy!
Sounds like Jean Loves Jezebel or Psychedlic Furs. Very UK new wave. Wow didn't know they are from my home country of Canada and that's Cevin Key of SP. Rock on !
@@ED80s Yes I thought they were from the UK. Vancouver(skinny puppy, Images in vogue), Toronto(The spoons, Martha and the muffins), Montreal(The box, mitsou) had some really cool innovative bands, artists.
It's a shame I didn't know about these guys when this was a hit. They didn't register on this side of the Canadian border. But I wish I could have known Dale Martindale back then. I was a 8 year old kid who hated wearing glasses, I might have liked to seen a guy on MTV wearing them. Might have made me feel better.
@@Kohntarkosz : Apologies, Kohntarkosz, it wasn't clear to me if you were in Canada or the U.S. Yes, definitely yet another Canadian band that didn't register Stateside. I've found out from a friend in Wales, when they were offered cable from a certain company in the 1980's, they got our Much Music as part of their cable package for free instead of the American MTV. So, he knows a LOT of 80's Canadian bands that otherwise certainly wouldn't be known in Wales. ~ It's sad, really. The list of Canadian bands that never really registered Stateside is so incredibly long. Have a good day! :)
@@cindyspowart555 A lot of that was because of the Canadian Content regulations. The Canadian equivalent of the FCC requires all broadcasters to carry a certain amount of "local talent" per day, otherwise known as Canadian Content. Hence, all radio stations, Much Music, etc tended to carry a lot of Canadian bands. I remember someone suggesting that Can Con regs were basically what kicked started the Canadian entertainment industry, starting in the late 60's. Before that, anyone from Canada trying to break into the music biz or TV or whatever, had to go to LA or NYC (well, not HAD to, but it was a lot easier for someone like Neil Young to get a leg up in LA than it would have been if he had stayed in Toronto or wherever he lived before emigrating). We used to get the old CBC affiliate from London Ontario, Channel 10 CFPL, on our cable TV service, so I remember seeing a fair number of Canadian artists on their music programs that you didn't see on MTV (like Parachute Club or Haywire).
@@Kohntarkosz : Kohntarkosz, yes, good ole Cancon. I didn't remember replying to your comment previously (short term memory loss due to age, LOL) but what struck me this time was how you wished you had seen Dale w/ glasses on on MTV. ~ I was 12 or 13 when I got glasses and I still remember that God awful self conscious feeling. I grew to like them though, probably because of what's called social anxiety nowadays. A natural barrier between me and the other person or people. Did you end up getting contacts when you were older or Lasik? I tried contacts and hated them. ~ Apologies for missing your reply two years ago.
oneconscious man it was how the studios produced videos back in the 80s. Most bands wanted to play live but studios would not let them. You either did it their way or you didn’t get MTV videos for your band. BBC was the same way.
He still managed to get his lipstick on, so that's all that mattered! Actually, someone from the U.S. commented above that they wished they had seen IIV w/ Dale w/ glasses on on MTV when they were 8. That it would have made them feel better. So, Elvis Costello, not Canadian, dorky, too?
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