The Fallout Club was a British 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

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 band formed by Irish singer Trevor Herion

Trevor Herion

Trevor Herion, born John Trevor Herion, was an Irish singer, born in Cork who formed part of the punk and new wave scenes in the 1970s and 1980s...

, the experimental drummer Paul Simon, future successful Thomas Dolby

Thomas Dolby

Thomas Dolby is an English musician and producer. Best known for his 1982 hit "She Blinded Me with Science", and 1984 single "Hyperactive!", he has also worked extensively in production and as a session musician.-Early life:Dolby was born in London, England, contrary to information in early 1980s...

 on keyboards, and bassist Matthew Seligman

Matthew Seligman

Matthew Seligman is an English bassist who took part of the new wave scene in the 1970s and the 1980s, best known as a member of the Soft Boys.-Biography:...

 in 1981. Herion and Simon formed the band shortly after the demise of their previous group, The Civilians, while Dolby was in Bruce Woolley and The Camera Club Seligman, who also had played in The Soft Boys

The Soft Boys

The Soft Boys were a pop band during the punk era led by Robyn Hitchcock, whose initially old fashioned music style of psychedelic/folk-rock became part of the neo-psychedelia scene with the release of Underwater Moonlight...

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The band only released singles: Falling Years/The Beat Boys , Dream Soldiers, Pedestrian Walway, Wonderlust/Desert Song (Happy Birthday Records, 1981). The group was short-lived and split-up shortly afterwards. Dolby went successfully solo, Simon went to work with Glen Matlock

Glen Matlock

Glen Matlock is an English bass guitarist most famous for being in the original line-up of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols. Drummer Paul Cook has said that Matlock came up with much of the music for the band's songs and most of the lyrics, while lead singer Johnny Rotten made some adjustments...

, Seligman joined The Thompson Twins

Thompson Twins

The Thompson Twins were a British pop group that were formed in April 1977 and disbanded in May 1993. They achieved considerable popularity in the mid 1980s, scoring a string of hits in the United Kingdom, the United States and around the globe. The band was named after the two bumbling detectives...

(who counted with a brief collaboration of Dolby), and Herion also went solo, but failed to get hits to releasing his "Beauty Life" album in 1983, and died in 1988.

Discography

• "Falling Years" b/w "The Beat Boys" 7" single on Secret Records (1980)
• "Dream Soldiers" b/w "Pedestrian Walkway" 7" single on Happy Birthday Records (May 1981)
• "Wonderlust" b/w "Desert Song" 7" single on Happy Birthday Records (October 1981)
• "Wonderlust (Extended)" b/w "Desert Song (Extended)" 12" single on Happy Birthday Records (October 1981)

External links

• TREVOR HERION - FOREVER YOUNG Fledgling Trevor Herion tribute web