Artist · chart history
B-Movie
Band Mansfield United Kingdom Formed 1978 UK new wave band
B-Movie formed in 1978 in Mansfield, United Kingdom. B-Movie has 28 chart appearances on 27 radio countdowns from 9 stations on RockLists, spanning 1981–2008. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Nowhere Girl”, which appears on 26 lists with a best position of #5. The station that charted B-Movie most often is KROQ (Los Angeles, CA), with 10 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1983.
B-Movie came out of Mansfield in 1978, a new wave band that dressed synth-pop in long shadows. The original lineup had Steve Hovington singing and playing bass, Paul Statham on guitar, Rick Holliday on keyboards and Graham Boffey on drums, and their first records arrived in 1980 on the small indie Dead Good Records: the Take Three 7-inch and the Nowhere Girl 12-inch.
Some Bizzare picked them up next, putting "Moles" on its 1981 compilation, and then Deram, a Phonogram imprint, signed them. "Remembrance Day" gave them their biggest British hit, a cold, stately thing, but "Marilyn Dreams" went nowhere. "Nowhere Girl" got a second shot as a single in 1982 and scraped into the UK chart, and it's the one that has lasted: sleek and melancholy, keyboards shivering under a melody that aches.
No album followed right away, and the lineup started to churn. Andy Johnson took over the drums from Boffey, Martin Winter joined on bass, and Holliday left in 1983 to start Six Sed Red with Cindy Ecstasy, a Soft Cell associate.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by B-Movie on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nowhere Girl | 26 | #5 | – | 1983 | |
| 2 | A Letter From Afar | 1 | #151 | – | – | |
| 3 | Remembrance Day | 1 | #36 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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