Ultravox! label, formed by Chris Blackwell and now part of Universal Music Group, celebrates its 50th anniversary next month.

Full article in The Independent - our favourite "arty-punks" get a mention.

As part of the 50th anniversary celebrations, Island launched a website.

One of their 'classic reviews' is Phil McNeill's excellent piece on the debut Ultravox! album 'Ultrahype' from the NME in April 1977.

You can read a full transcript of that review here, including extracts from the tracks on the album

http://www.island50.com/albums/detail/ultravox

Cool - cheers for this and for the twitter

Interesting read. Thanks for the link.

Great linky Martin.

Nice to see Ultravox featured too. So many celerbrations have happened over the time, without a word for Ultravox. Island could not really leave out one of their most important signing's though.

Would 'mark1' please go to reception for a delayed update. Over and out.