Living On The Ceiling – Blancmange (1983)

Description

Additional information about this, Blancmange vinyl art.

Blancmange – The Artist/s

Blancmange  are an English synth-pop band formed in Harrow, London, in 1979. The band were a duo for much of their career, composed of Neil Arthur (vocals) and Stephen Luscombe (keyboards). They came to prominence in the early 1980s, releasing four UK top-20 singles: “Living on the Ceiling”, “Waves”, “Blind Vision” and “Don’t Tell Me”. They released three studio albums during that decade: Happy Families (1982), Mange Tout (1984) and Believe You Me (1985). The duo amicably broke up in 1986 but reformed in the late 2000s, and in 2011 released their fourth studio album, Blanc Burn. Luscombe left following the release due to ill health, and since then Arthur alone has continued to perform under the Blancmange name, releasing nine new studio albums along with a re-recording of the band’s debut studio album, titled Happy Families Too… (2013). He has also been involved in a further three collaborative albums as Fader (with Benge) and Near Future (with Jez Bernholz).

Living On The Ceilings – The Song

‘Living on The Ceiling’ is a song by the English synth-pop band Blancmange. It was released as the band’s third single in 1982, taken from their debut studio album Happy Families. It became the band’s first (and biggest) UK Top 40 hit, peaking at No. 7 on the UK Singles Chart and being certified Silver by the BPI for sales in excess of 200,000 copies. Blancmange performed the song on Top of the Pops, but for broadcast on the show as well as on BBC Radio, the track was edited to replace the lyric “Up the bloody tree” with “Up the cuckoo tree”. However, in a subsequent episode of Top of the Pops where the song was used as the ‘play-out track’ without the band in the studio, the original “bloody” lyric was left in and was clearly audible.

The Sweet Dessert, Blancmange  – The Shape

This record has been crafted into the silhouette of  a Blancmange. Blancmange from French: blanc-manger, is a sweet dessert popular throughout Europe commonly made with milk or cream, and sugar, thickened with rice flour, gelatin, corn starch, or Irish moss (a source of carrageenan), and often flavoured with almonds. It is usually set in a mould and served cold. Although traditionally white, blancmanges are frequently given other colours. Blancmange originated at some time during the Middle Ages from the older Middle Eastern muhallebi, and usually consisted of capon or chicken, milk or almond milk, rice, and sugar; it was considered to be an ideal food for the sick.

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