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The Opposition are a long running post-punk band that featured Ralph Hall, Marcus Bell and Mark Long.

Albums

  • Breaking The Silence (Double Vision Records - 1980)
  • Intimacy (Charisma Records - 1983)
  • Promises (Charisma Records - 1984)
  • Empire Days (Charisma Records - 1985)
  • Blue Alice Blue (Declic Records - 1990)
  • '81/'82 (Midnight Music - 1991)
  • War Begins At Home (EMI Records - 1993)
  • Empire Days (Virgin Records Re-Issue - 1990)
  • Promises (Virgin Records Re-Issue - 1990)
  • Breaking The Silence (Mrs Jones/Red Sun Re-issue - 2001)
  • Blinder (Mrs Jones Records - 2003)
  • New York, Paris, Peckham live (Right Back Records - 2004)
  • Lost Songs - (Right Back Records- 2005)

So

So are a duo from the late 1980s that featured Markus Bell and Mark Long, who were previously members of a band called The Opposition. The duo were managed by Steve Weltman of Esta Management, and were contemporaries of acts such as Climie Fisher, Blue and Waterfront. Signing to Parlophone Records, they release singles such as "Are You Sure?" and "Would You Die For Me", as well as the album "Horseshoe In The Glove", that was produced by Walter Turbitt.


Horseshoe In The Glove

Tracklisting:

  • Are You Sure?
  • Dreaming
  • Burning Bush
  • Horseshoe In The Glove
  • Capitol Hill
  • Tips On Crime
  • Villains
  • Would You Die For Me
  • Are You Sure (12" mix)
  • First Of May
  • Dreaming (Cocktail Mix)

The last three entries are on the CD only.

Storyville

The band features Mark Long and Lol Ford

Album

  • Farewell To Storyville (2005 -Right Back Records)
    • Goodbye To Storyville
    • Warcries
    • Deep In A Dream
    • Turning Red
    • Ravished On A Bed Of Roses
    • This Is Real
    • Will It Ever e Better Than This
    • I'm Going To Make You Feel
    • Dirty Old Town
    • It's A Sad And Beautiful World


Sissy Light - Compilation album

Sissy Light was a 2001 compilation album from BMG Records in Poland that featured the track Already Out There

  • Antosh - What Fuels Your Fire?
  • Kings Of Covenience - Failure
  • Badly Drawn Boy - Disillusion
  • Tahiti 80 - I.S.A.A.K.
  • Stereolab - Cybele's Reverie
  • Lambchop - Up With People (Zero 7 Remix)
  • Regular Fries - Eclipse
  • Ian Brown - Set My Baby Free
  • Money Mark - Cry (Dust Brothers Remix)
  • Scott 4 - Lefturno
  • King Biscuit Time - I Walk The Earth
  • Opposition - Already Out There
  • Physical Love - Wide Awake
  • Bent - Kisses
  • Polar - Bipolar Dram (Kid Loco Remix)
  • Smolik feat. A. Rojek - 50 Tysiecy 881 (V-2)


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