S Express 1988-12-25

S'Express

GENRE

House

TYPE

Group

FOUNDED

1988

DISBANDED

1994

LOCATION

United Kingdom

PRIMARY GENRE

House

12

TOTAL APPEARANCES

GROUP MEMBERS

Mark MooreSonique
Artist information provided by MusicBrainz

Timeline

FIRST APPEARANCE

14/04/1988

Theme From S-express

Top 40 Breaker Clip

LAST APPEARANCE

20/09/1990

Nothing To Lose

Top 40 Breaker Clip


Performance Statistics

Repeat performances are not counted, unless stated otherwise.

Mimed

6 / 12

Music Video

3 / 12

Top 40 Breaker Clip

2 / 12

Repeats

1 / 12

Screengrabs

2 / 12

Archived - Video

12 / 12

#1 Performances

2 / 12

TOTP Appearances

Performance Type Guide
Episode Performance Chart #
20/09/1990 Nothing To Lose
Top 40 Breaker Clip
32
05/10/1989 Mantra For A State Of Mind
Music Video
21
21/09/1989 Mantra For A State Of Mind
Mimed
24
23/02/1989 Hey Music Lover
Mimed
14
16/02/1989 Hey Music Lover
Music Video
29
Christmas Day 1988 Theme From S-express
Mimed
OLD
04/08/1988 Superfly Guy
Music Video
6
21/07/1988 Superfly Guy
Mimed
20
05/05/1988 Theme From S-express
Mimed
1
28/04/1988 Theme From S-express
Mimed
1
21/04/1988 Theme From S-express
Mimed
3
14/04/1988 Theme From S-express
Top 40 Breaker Clip
25

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Archived Interview

This content was taken from the BBC's original TOTP2 website, which was archived and discontinued in 2007. The original content is no longer available, but the TOTP Archive has preserved it. Please note that the content may not be up-to-date and may not accurately reflect today's views and opinions.

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.

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.

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

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?"

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.

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!

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!

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.

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.

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.