Music Style New Wave, Post Punk

Artist History Images in Vogues formed in April 1981 when Don Gordon And Gary Smith joined together with KevinCrompton and Joe Vizvary. The four came together out of common interests in making synthesizer-basedmusic and the many types of post-punk experimental music coming from England. After recording twowell-received 5-song demos, the band made its live debut in September 1981.In December 1981, popular local club DJ Kin Clarke Champniss (now of Much Music) became the band'smanager. His first act was to replace temporary singer Gary J.. The band found Dale Martindale throughsome friends, and the band's line-up was complete.Images in Vogue's first Canadian tour started in January 1983 and continued until May 1983, climaxingwith opening slots with Depeche Mode in Toronto and Roxy Music in Edmonton and Vancouver. Duringthe tour, the band generated record company interest, and IIV were signed to Warners Canada. The band'sfirst major label release was a self-titled EP containing remixes of Lust For Love and For Germans andrerecordings of Masks, Breaking Up, and Just Like You.In early 1984, IIV were asked to open for Duran Duran on their Seven and the Ragged Tiger tour. IIV diddates in Calgary, Vancouver and Seattle with Duran duran before being refused further work permits byUS immigration. A second single from the Images In Vogue EP was released in April 1984, a remix ofJust Like You and a dance remix of For Germans. At the 1984 West Coast Music Awards, IIV receivedmany nominations, including Song of the Year, Group of the Year, Best Vocalist, And Best Video. Glenand Joe were both nominated for Best Keyboardist. The group won awards for Best Video and BestAlbum Art. At CFNY's U-Know (Casby) Awards the band won Most Promising Group and MostPromising Vocalist awards.As the band prepared for their next album, Don Gordon was out of the band, to be replaced by formerStrange Advance and Instructions guitarist Ed Shaw. Gary Writght, of Dream Weaver fame, was chosen toproduce the album, and in May 1984 the band went to Los Angeles to record the album at Gary Wright'shome studio. It took three months to record and mix the album, and when completed, most of the band wasextremely dissappointed with the results. The album sounded weak and not at all like the IIV of theprevious recordings. The band asked Warners to not release the album and went into the studio to record areplacement. The band raised enough money to record Call It Love, and redo vocals on two demotapes--Save It and Calling My Name. These songs, along with a rough mix of Everything About You wereput together as the Rituals EP, released in November 1984. Warners, however,hoping to recoup some ofthe cost of the Gary Wright-produced album, decided to add Rescue Me from those sessions to the EP, andrelease it as the first single. While Rescue Me received moderate airplay, many radio stations startedplaying Call It Love instead.In early 1985 the band, now managing themselves, prepared to tour in support of Rituals. Warners, inresponse to the success of Rituals, decided to release the Gary Wright album, with Call It Love as the firstsingle. Again the band raised money on their own, this time to record one new song--King's Service andredo vocals and remix as much of the album as possible. The In The House album was released in March1985 and the band continued touring until Jume. At the end of the tour, Kevin suggested that the band moveto Toronto in order to make it easier to tour and conduct business. However, Kevin's side project, SkinnyPuppy, was beginning ato take more of his time, so, ironiically, when the band moved to Toronto inAugust 1985, Kevin stayed in Vancouver. His replacement was Derrick Gyles, former bandmate of EdShaw in Strange Advance and the Instructions. Before leaving for Toronto, the band prepared a video anddance mix for Save It to support the release of the single.The band's goal in moving to Toronto was to tour, and for the next eight months that was what they did. IIVwas recognized for their hard work with a Juno nomition for Most Promising Group in November 1985. InJanuary of 1986 the band released a rerecorded version and video of the song In The House on QualityRecords and made arrangements for an album to follow.While touring had brought IIV recognition and a larger following, it also caused tensions in the group todevelop, especially about writing. These tensions eventually led to Ed and Glen leaving the band in June1986 to pursue a more commercial, poppier sound on their own. They were replaced by Tim Welch, aguitarist formerly with Sylum. Shortly after the new line-up debuted in front of 5000 people opening forLuba at Molson's 250th birthday party, IIV won Casby awards for Group of the Year and Single of theYear. Soon after that the group signed with Anthem Records and started work on their second full lengthalbum. The first tracks for the album were recorded with Joe producing , but it was felt that an outside producerwould help the band focus better. After trying a few different producers, John Switzer, bass player andproducer for Jane Sibbery, was chosen to work on the next tracks for the album. After four more songswere recorded, Kerry Crawford and Jon Goldsmith, who had also produced Jane Sibbery as well asBruce Cockburn and others, were hired to finish the album. During the recording of the album, the bandconsidered changing thier name to The Spell, but eventually decided to stay with Images In Vogue. Thefirst single, So Careful, was released without reference to IIV on the sleeve. Though the album was completed in July 1987, Anthem delayed release until January 1988. During thistime the band did not perform live, so members work at various jobs until the album release. Mostnotably, Dale became host of the CBC TV show Switchback, for which Joe And Tim occasionalyprovided music. After The Spell was released, IIV toured Eastern Canada, but Anthem decided to nothave the band return to the West where they had not performed since 1985.

Group Members Dale Martindale 1982-1991 Gary Smith 1981-1988. Don Gordon 1981-1984Kevin Crompton 1981-1985Joe Vizvary 1981-1991Glen Nelson 1982-1986Ed Shaw 1984-1986Derrick Gyles 1985-1991Tim Welch 1986-1991Darrell Flint live 1989-1991.Kim Champniss manager 1981-1985

Albums In The House, The Spell, Collection,

Location Vancouver, British Columbia - Canada

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