The box included 4 LPs and a bonus 7" ("Genetic Warfare" by Vice Versa + Adi Newton). Creating the boxed set led into the reformation of Vice Versa. The set was compiled by original band members Singleton and White. In 2014 German label VOD Records released a lavish Vice Versa boxed set called "Electrogenesis 1978-1980". They decided to make him the lead singer of the band and spent about a year writing new songs, thinking of a new name and concept this progress being the Vice - Versa to ABC-transformation.
Martin Fry started to improvise on vocals and everybody was surprised by the quality of his voice. When they went over to Holland on tour and they were invited to jam in a studio in Rotterdam. During 1980 Vice Versa made two more releases - an excellent cassette '8 Aspects of' followed by another vinyl cut for the two tracks, 'Stilyagi/Eyes of Christ' (7", BBR 003) remixed from the very cassette at the Backstreet/Backlash Studio in Rotterdam. David Sydenham was replaced by Martin Fry who at that time was writing for his fanzine Modern Drugs, he interviewed Stephen and Mark and then never left. The EP was also named 'single of the week' by NME, much to the surprise of the group.Īt that time and after David decided to leave the band they played a numerous amount of gigs in the U.K. Vice Versa still succeeded in gaining particular public attention with their own blend of electronic pop tendencies, largely inspired by the Punk explosion, the post punk fall out, and the electronic Sheffield music scene at the time.Īs purveyors of fine product, Neutron made sharp, intelligent statements for the new decade - Vice Versa's 'Music 4' (7" EP, NT001) is a brilliant piece of electronic pop linked with cut-up statements on social decadence.įurther two releases, even more ambitious in that matter were a set of prints and a manifesto (NT002), to be finally concluded with a semi-legendary six-sided fold out '1980: The First Fifteen Minutes' (7" EP, NT003) - alongside Vice Versa, further three then-local groups - Clock DVA, The Stunt Kites and I'm So Hollow contributed one track each for their first proper vinyl exposure before getting their own record deals ever after.
Although fairly obscure as the Sheffield underground scene ran predominantly local. In their anarchic beginnings, the Neutron-label itself was conceived an independent, marking a distinctive path between music and packaging, regarding their material as manifestos focusing around subversive matters of the post-modern and anti-art principles. Their first concert took place at the Doncaster Outlook club supporting Wire and the first major Sheffield gig was with The Human League at the Now Society at the Sheffield University and it was called 'Wot, no Drummers'. The band was formed in 1977 by Stephen Singleton, Mark White and David Sydenham. Vice Versa are considered as one of the "Big Four" late 70's minimalistic electronic/synth-based bands from Sheffield together with Cabaret Voltaire, Clock DVA and The Human League, who they supported in 1978. The band was active from 1977-1980 and reformed in 2015. Vice Versa comprised future members of the successful pop group ABC. That's why tekkies, just as well as jurists, tend to be mindful of these pitfalls.Vice Versa is a synthpop band from Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. However, in sensitive situations there is no place for assumptions.
Do with that fact as you deem fit.Įdit: In the everyday communication, people rely on the context and common sense of each other, so they don't see the need to be very precise. As for the combinations you really are offering, I don't know them you do.Īs for vice versa, the fact is that it means exactly: the other way around. If one option excludes the other, use expressions such as only, exclusive, excluding, but not, either etc. If something must be done, then use must. When you have the sentence "You can do A or B", only this meaning applies: If you want, you might so act as to have done A only, or to have done B only, or to have done nothing. If you want, you might so act as to have done nothing.Ģ) You can act in a way that results in your having done A and B. When you have the sentence "You can do A and B", only the context determines which of the following two meanings applies:ġ) On the one hand, you can act in a way that results in your having done A, but not B on the other hand, you can act in a way that results in your having done B, but not A. The or kind is not ambiguous the and kind is.
This is not a question of vice versa, but of can in combination with the conjunction/operator or and of can in combination with the conjunction/operator and.