Between 1978 and 1980 Fàshiön toured both the USA and UK as opening band for The Police, did a UK club tour with a then unknown band from Ireland called U2, opened for The B52'S on their first ever UK tour, had a new band called Duran Duran open shows for them, and played gigs with: Alternative TV, Billy Idol, Brent Ford and the Nylons, Brian James Brains, Chas and Dave, Chelsea, Dangerous Girls, Dansette Damage, Delta 5, Dry Rib, Gang of Four, Ha-Ha Germs, Hazel O'Connor, Ian Dury, Inner Circle, John Cale, John Cooper Clarke, Joy Division, Medium Medium, Moon Martin, Neon Hearts, Patti Smith, Richard Jobson, Robert Fripp, Squeeze, Steel Pulse, Steve Hillage, SVT, The Cramps, The Cure , The Damned, The Mekons, The Meteors, The Photos, The Ramones, The Reds, The Skids, The Specials, The Stop, The Stranglers, The The, The Tubes, Toyah Wilcox, UB40, and Wilko Johnson.
In 2008 Luke Sky, now a resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, decided to re-release Fàshiön’s groundbreaking first album Product Perfect. Please go to the Product Perfect page to read reviews of the record and gigs.
Having left his time capsule to mate Product Perfect’s vinyl with a CD, he then decided to write and record a new album – the first Fàshiön album to feature Luke Sky this millennium.
So, for Fàshiön fans everywhere the 10,735 nights of waiting are over and Luke proudly presents for your delectation Stairway To Nowhere.
Later this year there will be a book, also called Stairway To Nowhere, that will give hilarious, irreverent glimpses into Luke’s life during the two years he toured with Fàshiön. Name’s will be named, reputations besmirched, underwear-dirty and otherwise-flaunted in public. Luke has a battalion of terminator lawyers standing by to field the law suits.
Meanwhile, sit back and soak yourself in the lifegiving, rejuvenating sounds only to be found on the Stairway To Nowhere.
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