Faith Global was a synthpop

Synthpop

Synthpop is a genre of popular music that first became prominent in the 1980s, in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic art rock, disco and particularly the "Kraut rock" of...

 and New Wave

New Wave music

New Wave is a subgenre of :rock music that emerged in the mid to late 1970s alongside punk rock. The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated aspects of electronic and experimental music, mod subculture, disco and 1960s...

 band composed by Stevie Shears

Stevie Shears

Stevie Shears is a musician known for playing in english rock bands Tiger Lily and Ultravox! , alongside electronic musician John Foxx.-Tiger Lily and Ultravox!:...

 (guitar, bass, synthesizer, piano), original Ultravox!

Ultravox

Ultravox is a British New Wave rock band. They were one of the primary exponents of the British electronic pop music movement of the late 1970s/early 1980s. The band was particularly associated with the New Romantic and New Wave movements....

 guitarist and Jason Guy (vocals, acoustic guitar).

Stevie Shears had been in Ultravox! and Cowboys International

Cowboys International

Cowboys International were a New Wave and synthpop band formed by vocalist and songwriter Ken Lockie that put out one album in 1979, the influential The Original Sin, and a handful of 45s before dissolving in 1980...

, when suddenly Faith Global was formed in the early 1980s.

Shears met Guy after leaving Ultravox in 1978 and deciding to form a band Ice, bassist Gloria Mundi; Shears and Guy formed New Men. The band didn't last long, so Shears went to Cowboys International and Guy formed another band, but continued to maintain contacts. Later Survival Records (label founded by the duo Drinking Electricity

Drinking Electricity

Drinking Electricity were a post-punk/synthpop trio from Edinburgh, Scotland active during the early 1980s.-History:The trio comprised Anne-Marie Heighway , David Rome , and Paul Edgley . Rome had previously worked with Martin Lloyd in the band Analysis, which was later to evolve into Oppenheimer...

) offered them money to work in the studio.

In Survival, recorded and released an EP called Earth Report

Earth Report

Earth Report was an 12" EP released by New Wave band Faith Global, on Survival Records, in 1982. This was the first disc the band, comprised by multinstrumentalist Stevie Shears and singer Jason Guy, released....

in 1982 and the album The Same Mistakes in 1983. Shortly afterwards, it seems Faith Global split up. Shears continues playing guitar, but retired from the music business, while the whereabouts of Guy are unknown.

External links

• http://www.ultravox.org.uk/cgi-bin/ImageFolio31/imageFolio.cgi?direct=Press_archive/Stevie_Shears Faith Global press interviews and photos