About
Formed in Harrow, London in 1979, Blancmange built their reputation as a synth-pop duo — Neil Arthur on vocals and Stephen Luscombe on keyboards — scoring four UK top-20 singles in the early 1980s: "Living on the Ceiling", "Waves", "Blind Vision" and "Don't Tell Me". Three studio albums followed in that decade, Happy Families, Mange Tout and Believe You Me, before the pair split amicably in 1986. They reformed in the late 2000s and released Blanc Burn in 2011, but Luscombe later stepped away due to ill health and died in 2025. Arthur has carried the Blancmange name forward solo, putting out over a dozen new studio albums alongside collaborative projects as Fader and Near Future.
