List of New Wave bands and artists

The following list of artists that were involved with the New Wave movement of the late 1970s and the 1980s.

New Wave bands and artists include:

A

*ABC
*Adam and the Ants
*Adam Ant
*The Adventures
*a-ha
*A House
*The Alarm
*Marc Almond
*Alphaville
*Altered Images
*Amazulu
*Aneka
*Animotion
*Anything Box
*Arcadia
*Art of Noise
*Associates
*Rick Astley
*Azra
*Aztec Camera

B

*The B-52's
*B-Movie
*Baltimora
*Bananarama
*Bauhaus
*Honey Bane
*Toni Basil
*Berlin
*The Bible
*Big Audio Dynamite
*Big Country
*Black
*Blancmange
*Blondie
*The Blow Monkeys
*Blue in Heaven
*Blue Zoo
*The Bolshoi
*Book of Love
*The Boomtown Rats
*Bourgeois Tagg
*Bow Wow Wow
*The Boys Next Door
*The Brains
*The Bravery
*Bram Tchaikovsky
*Bronski Beat
*The Buggles

C

*Cabaret Voltaire
*Cactus World News
*Captain Sensible
*The Call
*Camouflage
*Cardiacs
*The Care
*Cause & Effect
*The Cars
*Cetu Javu
*Celebrate The Nun
*China Crisis
*The Church
*Clan of Xymox
*Anne Clark
*Classix Nouveaux
*The Cold
*The Colourfield
*Comateens
*The Communards
*Comsat Angels
*Cool It Reba
*Julian Cope
*Elvis Costello
*Josie Cotton
*Marshall Crenshaw
*The Cretones
*Culture Club
*The Cure
*Cybotron

D

*The dB's
*Dalek I Love You
*Dead or Alive
*Department S
*Depeche Mode
*Devo
*Dexy's Midnight Runners
*Divinyls
*Thomas Dolby
*Dolly Mixture
*Dominatrix
*The Dream Academy
*Stephen Duffy
*Duran Duran

E

*Eddie and the Hot Rods
*The English Beat
*EBN-OZN
*The Erase-Hers
*Erasure
*Everything But The Girl
*Eurogliders
*Eurythmics
*Eyeless in Gaza
*Echo and the bunnymen

F

*Face to Face
*Fad Gadget
*Falco
*Fashion
*Fiat Lux
*Fiction Factory
*Film
*Fingerprintz
*Fischer-Z
*The Fixx
*Flash and the Pan
*The Fleshtones
*The Flirts
*A Flock of Seagulls
*The Flying Lizards
*John Foxx
*Fra Lippo Lippi
*Frankie Goes to Hollywood
*Freur
*Fun Boy Three
*Furniture

G

*B. B. Gabor
*Gangway
*Gary Numan
*General Public
*Generation X
*The Glove
*The Go-Betweens
*Go-Go's
*The Godfathers
*Peter Godwin
*Go West
*Gene Loves Jezebel

H

*Nina Hagen
*Paul Haig
*Haircut 100
*Debbie Harry
*Bonnie Hayes
*Haysi Fantayzee
*Haustor
*Robert Hazard
*Murray Head
*Heaven 17
*Rupert Hine
*Holly and the Italians
*Hoodoo Gurus
*The Hooters
*Hot Hot Heat
*Human League
*Human Sexual Response
*Human Switchboard

I

*Norman Iceberg
*Icehouse
*Icicle Works
*Ideola
*Idoli
*Billy Idol
*Images in Vogue
*Industry
*Information Society
*INXS
*It's Immaterial

J

*Joe Jackson
*The Jam
*Japan
*Grace Jones
*Howard Jones
*Ignatius Jones
*JoBoxers

K

*Kaiser Chiefs
*Kajagoogoo
*Nik Kershaw
*Killing Joke
*King
*Kissing the Pink
*Klark Kent
*The Knack
*The Korgis
*Kids in the Kitchen
*Kraftwerk

L

*Annabel Lamb
*Landscape
*Cyndi Lauper
*Level 42
*Limahl
*The Lover Speaks
*Lene Lovich
*The Lotus Eaters

M

*M
*Kirsty MacColl
*Madness
*Mainframe
*Robert Marlow
*Martha and the Muffins
*Matia Bazar
*Men at Work
*Mental As Anything
*Mi-Sex
*Microdisney
*Midge Ure
*Midnight Oil
*Minor Detail
*Missing Persons
*The Mockers
*Modern English
*Moev
*The Monroes
*The Mood
*The Motels

N

*The Nails
*Naked Eyes
*Nena
*Nina Hagen
*The Neon Judgement
*Nervous Germans
*Nervus Rex
*The Network
*New Order
*Klaus Nomi
*The Normal
*Gary Numan
*The Nuns

O

*Hazel O'Connor
*Oingo Boingo
*The Only Ones
*Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
*The Other Ones (Australian-German band)
*Our Daughter's Wedding
*OXO

P

*P. Lion
*The Pale Fountains
*Graham Parker
*Pat Benatar
*The Payolas
*Pearl Harbour and the Explosions
*Pet Shop Boys
*The Photos
*Pink Turns Blue
*Plastic Bertrand
*Plastics
*Platinum Blonde
*The Plimsouls
*The Polecats
*The Police
*Polyrock
*Polysics
*Prefab Sprout
*The Pretenders
*The Producers
*Propaganda
*Pseudo Echo
*Psychedelic Furs
*Pukka Orchestra
*Puppets

Q

*Q-Feel
*Q Lazzarus
*The Quick

R

*Radio Stars
*Rational Youth
*Real Life
*Red Rockers
*Re-Flex
*The Rezillos - (later "Revillos")
*Stan Ridgway
*Rockpile
*The Romantics
*Romeo Void
*Rough Trade
*Red Flag

*Scandal
*Scary Thieves
*Peter Schilling
*Screaming Blue Messiahs
*Scritti Politti
*Secession
*The Selecter
*Seona Dancing
*Severed Heads
*Pete Shelley
*Shriekback
*Jane Siberry
*Sigue Sigue Sputnik
*Simple Minds
*The Skids
*Slow Children
*Soft Cell
*Belouis Some
*Spandau Ballet
*Sparks
*Spasmodic Caress
*The Specials
*Spizzenergi
*Split Enz
*Spoons
*SPK
*Squeeze
*Strange Advance
*Strawberry Switchblade
*Style Council
*Suburban Lawns
*The Suburbs
*Rachel Sweet

T

*Taco
*Talking Heads
*Talk Talk
*Tapps
*The Teardrop Explodes
*Tears for Fears
*Telex
*The The
*Thompson Twins
*Three Johns
*Til Tuesday
*Time Bandits
*Time Zone
*Tin Huey
*Tom Robinson Band
*Tom Tom Club
*Tommy Tutone
*Toto Coelo
*T'Pau
*The Tourists
*Toyah
*Trans-X
*Translator
*Trees
*Trio
*Thunderbirds are Now!
*Tuxedomoon
*Tubeway Army
*TV21

U

*Ultravox

V

*The Vapors
*Vicious Pink
*Vigil
*Visage
*Vitamin Z

W

*The Waitresses
*Wall of Voodoo
*Wang Chung
*The Waterboys
*Wa Wa Nee
*When In Rome
*The Wild Swans
*Wire
*Wire Train
*Wreckless Eric

X

*Xmal Deutschland
*XTC

Y

*Yachts
*Yazoo
*Yello

Þ

*Þeyr

ee also

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