![]() Pickering focused on his deejay career at The Haçienda, notably Nude Night from 1984 onwards, which featured early Chicago House music after 1986, at which Topping also contributed occasional half hour sets, playing mainly salsa and merengue. Then the DJ thing started to take off for me, and I thought - you know what, I'm just going to be a DJ for a while.'Ī poppy but prophetic final single, Bad Blood, went unreleased, and by the end of 1986 Quando Quango were no more. Going up and down the M6 and M1 in Transit vans and playing at a student union, half full. Massive fights in dressing rooms, that kind of thing. We'd been married, and it just got harder and harder. 'My relationship with Gonnie was getting more and more awkward. 'We were going nowhere with Quando Quango,' admits Pickering today. Issued in November, debut album Pigs + Battleships shifted relatively few units, and tensions within the group reached breaking point. ![]() Yet while Genius sparkled, Quando Quango was beginning to lose its lustre after three years of uphill struggle. Featuring skittering piano from Andy Connell of A Certain Ratio and Swing Out Sister, and a bouncy rhythm track inspired by the Cramps, aptly-titled Genius rivals Love Tempo as the best known QQ track, and still sounds as fresh as the proverbial daisy three decades on. Then still two-thirds of eclectic Factory dance outfit Quando Quango, Pickering and Topping issued breezy instrumental Genius as their fourth single. A trio comprising Mike Pickering, Simon Topping and Richie Close, the origins of underground House music project T-Coy can be said to date back as far as 1985.
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