Talk:Mobiles (band)

Factual?
The whole raison detre of Wikipedia is accurate reference; it is not a place for anecdotal accounts or a lack of accurate detail. In the Former Members frame we see Annie Marie (sic). When and where was Anna Maria ever called Annie Marie? The Career section has a (partial?) regurgitation of an anecdote 'they (The Mobiles) claimed to have been sacked from their day jobs. . '  All six of them? Please! How many - and which? In the last sentence of Post Mobiles we read of liner notes by David Blundell - and a complete discography - yet this insight is not used below. In Band Members we have an incomplete 'who and what' listing. For example, Chris Downton was a guitarist (hear 'Skeleton Dance') and a songwriter, similarly Russ Madge. Admasster 86.0.83.71 (talk) 13:04, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Some kind person has updated the listing and edited Annie to Anna - but has not changed Marie to Maria. The 'sacking' anecdote should be removed. NB. the reference used also mis-spells Maria as Marie. . Please understand the difference between primary and secondary sources and the importance of checking them. Admasster 86.10.5.42 (talk) 10:42, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Marie now corrected to Maria. Admasster (talk) 13:11, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Someone has now decided that two members were sacked - including Anna Maria. What did Anna say in a newspaper interview with Nina Myskow? I quote: "I rang up to tell my boss I would need time off for the show. He gave me an ultimatum 'It was either my job or the music'. I was really worried because I was convinced he would give me the sack. I went back to work the day after, expecting fireworks, but it was quite the reverse. My boss told me he'd loved the show. He didn't actually like the record but he thought we were brilliant! . . After that I didn't feel it was fair not to put him in the picture about how much more time I'd need off. We decided amicably that I might as well leave." So, was she sacked? For the record, no-one else was sacked as a result of this TOTP appearance. PLEASE resist using material taken from blogs. Admasster (talk) 16:27, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

New wave?
This act isn't 'new wave' - it's too late (1982). Unless you're using the term in its American sense ('new wave' was used for anything vaguely 'modern rock' from the late 70s right up until the late 80s). As this is a UK act we should classify the Mobiles as 'synth pop'...(but not New Romantics...that was well and truly over by 1982). 'New wave' in the UK referred to a very short period from the arrival of punk in '76 to 1980 as the Wikipedia entry for 'new wave' explains. Vauxhall1964 (talk) 15:24, 25 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Done; sometimes it is easier to edit than plead !?! In my view - (purely POV, I know) - there are almost as many edit wars over artist so-called 'genres' than anything else. Most of it seems a waste of time to me - it is all rather subjective at best.


 * Derek R Bullamore (talk) 15:35, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

External links modified
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