Trouser Press, October 1982
Positive Noise
Get Up and Go!/End in Tears
OK, I ain't gonna front: To my knowledge, I've never heard Positive Noise.
So I'm coming at this with fresh ears, 30 years after the fact.
They were apparently a Scottish synthpop band, and Get Up and Go! was released as a single in 1982. End in Tears was a B-side from that same year.
Get Up and Go! doesn't quite earn that exclamation point-- it's bright and mannered like ABC, but without the oily style of Martin Fry. There's a chance that JoBoxers took some notes from it, but you'd have to ask them to know for sure.
End in Tears is by-the-numbers New Wave guff, punctuated by a springy bass line that I admit makes me smile a bit every time it sproings...
