S'Express

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FIRST

14/04/1988
Theme From S-express
Top 40 Breaker Clip

LAST

20/09/1990
Nothing To Lose
Top 40 Breaker Clip

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Artist Appearances

Episode	Performance
20/09/1990	Nothing To Lose Top 40 Breaker Clip
05/10/1989	Mantra For A State Of Mind Music Video
21/09/1989	Mantra For A State Of Mind Mimed Performance
23/02/1989	Hey Music Lover Mimed Performance
16/02/1989	Hey Music Lover Music Video
Christmas Day 1988	Theme From S-express Mimed Performance
04/08/1988	Superfly Guy Music Video
21/07/1988	Superfly Guy Mimed Performance
05/05/1988	Theme From S-express Mimed Performance
28/04/1988	Theme From S-express Mimed Performance
21/04/1988	Theme From S-express Mimed Performance
14/04/1988	Theme From S-express Top 40 Breaker Clip

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Interview date: Circa 2003

Ever wondered what happened to Mark Moore of S'Express?
S'Express burst onto the scene in 1988 with the Rose Royce-inspired 'Theme From S'Express. Follow-up singles 'Superfly Guy' and 'Hey Music Lover' (which sampled cult film Stepford Wives) extended their credentials as a band capable of astonishingly good dance-pop.
The band's founder Mark Moore is still working as a respectable (well, as they can be) DJ and took time out to answer a few of our questions.

'Theme From S'Express' was such an inspired song. How aware were you at the time that you were doing something new?

I knew I was doing something very new and unique - taking from the underground sound of Chicago House music and Detroit techno but giving it my very own British slant. I thought it would be big in the clubs I played and that we'd be a cult band for a while after which, in perhaps three years time, we would sell out and become mega famous.

It was the second summer of love. Any hazy recollections from your first TOTP?

I remember being held prisoner in a white room for the whole day!

Did you ever worry that S'Express would be considered a novelty act?

I was confident that most people, once they scratched the surface, would realise that we were a band with an edge as well as a sense of humour. Although a couple of the first S'Express interviews did start with, "Is this a joke?"

By the time of 'Nothing To Lose' your music had become more song-based. Yet it missed out on big chart success. This must have been disappointing.

I was a bit miffed. It was a marvellous ditty and I felt that Sonique should have been a huge star. Took a while but she got there. People still come up to me and say what a great song that was. Usually with an eerie, crazed look in their eyes.

Sonique, Billy Ray Martin... you have a talent for picking great singers. What's happened to the other members of the band?

Linda Love now runs a modelling agency. Haven't seen her for a while but I am in contact with all the other girls. Chilo is as wild as ever making films, music and doing poetry recitals in Vienna. I tried to get us to do an erotic art video for "Hey Music Lover"...oh all right then, a soft porn video...but they all refused. It is our biggest regret!

A decade after they were banished from the studio, you brought flares back to TOTP. What were you thinking of?

I hold my head up high on that one! And dig out my yellow flares once a year to wear around the house. Don't push me or I might start an '80s New Romantic revival!

Any chance of reforming the band?

Never say never again. We'll see! It would have to be with a 12 piece, funk ensemble plus orchestra this time and I would like to bankrupt the record company that signs us, ala Fischerspooner. A bands worth will now no longer be measured by how many records they sell but by how many record companies they take down.

Are you still DJing?

Yes I play around the world and in the nu-electro clubs in London like Electric Stew, 21st Century BodyRockers, The Cock, 333 Club, 93 Feet East, Fabric, etc. Also every Wednesday I do a live internet radio show from my website between 4.00 and 6.00PM so check it out if you know what's good for you.

What are your current projects?

Am doing three musical projects under the names "UltraViva", "Needledust" and "Artificial Plastic Band". The first Needledust came out on the Mute label in 2002. Big in the clubs and the obligatory number one in the Japanese dance chart, don't you know. Where would we be without Japan? Also I have just finished a remix of Dead Or Alive's "You Spin Me Round". I have decided to make more music purely for the kids and also to save pop music.