It was also released in the US by Sire Records the following year, where it reached number 70 on the Billboard chart, and sold over 500,000 copies. The second album, After the Snow (April 1982), was more keyboard-oriented and was compared to Simple Minds and Duran Duran. A second Peel session was recorded in October 1981. In the band's early days, they showed a strong Joy Division influence. Īfter a single on their own 'Limp' label (not to be confused with America's Limp Records) in 1979, the band signed to 4AD the following year with two further singles released, and a session for John Peel of BBC Radio 1 recorded before the band's debut album, Mesh & Lace, in 1981. The group expanded to "Modern English" when Richard Brown (drums) and Stephen Walker (keyboards) were added to the lineup of the band. They reunited again in 1995 and have continued in various lineups since that time.įormed in Colchester, Essex, in 1979 by Robbie Grey (vocals), Gary McDowell (guitar, vocals), and Michael Conroy (bass, vocals) (born 9 August 1962), Modern English were originally known as The Lepers. The group disbanded in 1987, only to re-form two years later and then disband in 1991. They are best known for their songs " I Melt with You", " Hands Across the Sea", and "Ink and Paper".
Modern English are an English new wave/ post-punk band formed in 1979 in Colchester, Essex, England.
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