The Human League

Fast Records Press Release

SCENARIO: In the summer of 1977 The Human League was formed due to the members finding no conventional channels for their immense talents.

BACKGROUND: None of The Human League have any orthodox musical training, but prefer to regard compositions as an extension of logic, inspiration and luck. Therefore, unlike conventional musicians their influences are not so obvious.

CONCLUSION/MANIFESTO: Interested in combining the best of all worlds, The League would like to positively affect the future by close attention to the present, allying technology with humanity and humour. They have been described as "Later Twentieth Century Boys" and "Intelligent, Innovatory and Immodest".

OUTPUT: Compositions number 20 to date. Refer to single on Fast Product. Refer to limited edition cassette available from Fast Product.

Fast Product Tape

"Send us a tape and we'll fill it!"

Included:

Dignity of Labour excerpt
Optomistic Anthem - later to become Blind Youth
Year of the Jet Packs
Again the Eye Again
Toyota City
You've Lost That Loving Feeling (Peel Session Recording)

Other songs lost in time:

Dance Like a Star
Treatment
Disco Disaster
Overkill Disaster Crash
Interface
No Time
Blank Clocks
Looking For The Black Haired Girls
Cairo
Pulse Lovers
Future Religioin
Daz

Some Early Live Dates

The band actually started playing live in Sheffield in June 1977.

Date	Venue
12/6/78	Sheffield University Union Bar 2
25/7/78	The Limit Club (Sheffield)
17/8/78	Music Machine (London)
1/9/78	Eric's (Liverpool)
11/9/78	The Limit Club (Sheffield)*
28/10/78	The Electric Ballroom (London)
17/11/78	The Factory (Manchester)
8/12/78	The University (Edinburgh)
December 78	Various dates supporting Siouxie and the Banshees
3/2/79	Eric's (Liverpool)
9/2/79	Notre Dame Hall (London)**
15/2/79	Nashville (London)
16/2/79	Nashville (London)
23/2/79	Polytechnic (Sheffield)
25/3/79	Lyceum (London)
7/4/79	Rainbow (London)
12/6/79	Digbeth Civic Hall (Birmingham)
14/6/79	Astoria (Edinburgh)
15/6/79	The Factory (Manchester)
22/6/79	Marquee (London)

* This was a 'Local Bands Night', with no entry fee! Full lineup was TonTrix, Graph (from whence came Ian Burdon), Def Leppard (first major public gig), Human League.
** 9/2/79 - Gig cancelled on moral grounds.

11/11/79

Lyceum (London)***

*** 11/11/79 - This is the lasg gig as the foursome of Ian Marsh, Martyn Ware, Phil Oakey and Adrian Wright. The former two head off to form The British Electric Foundation and Heaven 17 and the later continue on as The Human League recruiting a bass player, Ian Burden from a band called Graf, and a couple of 17 year old cocktail waitresses, Joanne Catherall and Suzanne Sulley. This guise of the band went on to commercial succss with the Dare album.

Singles

Being Boiled

Being Boiled (Insurgent Pop)
Circus of Death (Resistant Product)

Fast 4.
Reached 8 in the UK charts in 1980.
First released January 1978 - 2000 copies.
Re-released August 1980 (EMI) and January 1982.

The Dignity of Labour

The Dignity of Labour part 1
The Dignity of Labour part 2
The Dignity of Labour part 3
The Dignity of Labour part 4

Fast 10.
Never entered the charts.
Released 1st June 1979.
Included flexi disc of band discussing the release of the record.

I Don't Depend on You

I Don't Depend on You
Cruel (Instrumental)

VS 269.
Never entered the charts.
Released July 1979.
Recorded under the name "The Men".

Empire State Human

Empire State Human
Introducing

VS 294.
VS 351 - Re-release with first 15,000 free single Toyota City/Only After Dark
VS 35112 - 12" single.
Charted at number 62.
Released 12th October 1979.