The new Plastic Age

Trevor Horn's official site has confirmed a special one-off live performance by The Buggles "a mere 30 years after their international #1 hit single Video Killed the Radio Star kick-started a generation of electronic pop".
Horn will reconvene the original Buggles line-up, to preform their début album - The Age of Plastic - in full. No post-gig DVD or live CD will be released we are told so the gig at London's supperclub on 28th September looks set to be very special indeed. All proceeds from The Lost Gig will be donated to the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability



Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark have also been confirmed as support band with a special set featuring the original McCluskey/Humphreys two-piece set-up. Says Horn of the Orch-men: ""I think what Orchestral Manoeuvres have achieved over the last few decades - that fusion of pop and electronic experimentation - is unique. Both OMD and The Buggles released their début singles in September 1979, so there's another symmetry for them joining us on the 28th"

LiM wonders whether Winston will also feature!


Although the influence of The Buggles and their 'plastic synthpop' blueprint is undisputed, their success hardly went beyond their hit Video Killed the Radio Star which reached number 1 in the UK in October1979. The album The Age of Plastic remained in the Top 40 for a mere three weeks peaking at number 27 in March 1980 helped along by a second single, the lesser known Living in the Plastic Age which reached number 16. Two further singles and a follow-up album Adventures in Modern Recording all flopped.