If "I want to be a machine / I want to be a Minny Pop were the only words sung/spoken in a thick Dutch accent on "Minny Pops, the first song (following a rather industrial introduction) on Minny Pops ...

Dutch electro pioneers Minny Pops are to reform for their first live dates in three decades. Led by Wally van Middendorp, the band revealed in November that they planned to break their 30-year silence ...

Two groups with tangential relationships to the pop in their names. One from Bristol, the other from Amsterdam. Each attracted attention in the punk's slipstream yet most certainly weren’t punk. In ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Minny Pops will celebrate the 40th anniversary of their album 'Sparks In A ...

Sharp, crisp, live and alive (albeit in 1981), this live album and CD set captures a moment… and, as all Minny Pops wanted to be was ‘a moment’, it seems quite perfect. However, the band’s welcome ...

The term post-punk, like most after-the-fact categorisations, doesn’t neatly fit with events as they unfolded. But it is undeniable that punk opened the way for a raft of unconventional bands which ...

If "I want to be a machine / I want to be a Minny Pop were the only words sung/spoken in a thick Dutch accent on "Minny Pops, the first s ...

The creative anchor to Minny Pops was Wally Van Middendorp, a key figure in Amsterdam's underground Ultra art movement, and founder of the Plurex label in early 1978. His first single, as Tits, ...

SPARKS IN A DARK ROOM LTM More post-punk electro pioneers crawl out of obscurity in the form of these Dutch one-time Factory artists. Actually, to term the Minny Pops 'pioneers' is to overstate the ...