Our Daughter's Wedding
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Origin | Synthpop, new wave |
Years active | 1979–1984 |
Labels | EMI America Records |
Past members | Layne Rico Keith Silva Scott Simon |
Our Daughter's Wedding was an American
Career
Silva and Rico played in a group, Human Bends, in their hometown of Fairfield in the Bay Area of California. They moved to New York, where Our Daughter's Wedding debuted in 1979 with Silva, Rico and 'a woman named Vanessa'. Simon replaced Vanessa soon afterwards. Of the group's name, Silva later said "It's so simple it's disgusting... You buy a little photo album at Woolworth’s and you get a stencil with it to write something on the cover like 'Baby’s first Year.' Or 'Our Daughter’s Wedding.'"[1]
In 1981, the group's "Lawnchairs", an independently funded and released single, reached #31 on the Billboard Disco Chart
They released the Digital Cowboy EP on EMI America in 1981,[3] produced by Colin Thurston. The EP was recorded at Chipping Norton Recording Studios in England (with notes "no sequencers used"), and it featured "Target for Life" which had a similar sound to early Talk Talk hits that came a year later. In addition to "Lawnchairs" the other tracks are "Red Alert", "Dance Floor" and "No One's Watching." Although the band did have a song titled "Digital Cowboy", it was not recorded for the EP. Simon later teamed with the band Hyperbubble to finally record the song for Hyperbubble's 2017 album Western Ware.
After Digital Cowboy, the band released an
Following Our Daughter's Wedding, Rico was a member of Gogoplex, which released one single in 1986.[4]
Equipment used in live shows as a trio included Roland Corporation RS-09, MicroMoog, Prophet-5, Sequential Circuits Pro-1, Synare 2 percussion synthesizer, Electro-Harmonix DRM-32 drum machine.
Discography
Albums
- Digital Cowboy (1981), EMI
- Moving Windows (1982), EMI
- Nightlife: The Collection (2007, compilation album), Almacantar Records
- Life's A Party (EP) (2012) Dreamfield Records
Singles
- "Lawnchairs" (1980), Design Records
- "Nightlife" b/w "Raincoats & Silverware" (1980), Design Records
- "Digital Cowboy" (1981), EMI
- "Auto Music" (1982), EMI
- "Elevate Her" (1982), EMI
- "Take Me" (1984), EMI
References
- ^ a b Michael Snyder, "No Punk, No Wave, Just Music from the Coast" San Francisco Examiner, "Datebook" section, 31 January 1982, p. 34
- ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
- ^ ISBN 0-85112-579-4.
- ^ "Gogoplex – Y.Y.O.Y / Speed Of Sound (1986, Vinyl)". Discogs.com. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
External links
- Synthpunk.org
- Our Daughters Wedding at AllMusic