Sad Café
Sad Café are an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1976, who achieved their peak of popularity in the late 1970s and early 1980s. They are best known for the UK Top 40 singles "Every Day Hurts", "Strange Little Girl", "My Oh My" and "I'm in Love Again", the first of which was their biggest hit, reaching number 3 in the UK Singles Chart in 1979. The band also had two US "Billboard" Hot 100 hits with "Run Home Girl" and "La-Di-Da". History. The group formed as a result of the unification of rock  bands Mandalaband and Gyro. Its founder members were Paul Young (vocals), Ian Wilson (guitar), Vic Emerson (keyboards), Ashley Mulford (lead guitar), John Stimpson (bass) and Tony Cresswell (drums). Harvey Lisberg, who also managed 10cc, arranged for Eric Stewart to produce their third album, "Facades", which included the top 3 single, "Every Day Hurts". Reviewing the band's 1978 "Misplaced Ideals" LP, Robert Christgau wrote in "" (1981): "In which the decade's most paradoxical, characteristic, and disgusting pop-music synthesis—combining hard rock's compulsive riff energy with MOR's smooth determination to displease no one—is achieved without recourse to  jazz rhythms or semiclassical decoration. Misplaced ideals my ass—they threw them down the deepest hole they could find." From the late 2010's original member Ian Wilson and bassist Des Tong were joined by long time associate, singer/songwriter Sue Quin, vocalist Barry James Thomas and lead guitarist Dave Day along with multi-instrumentalist Neil Shaw-Hulme, keyboard player Matt Steele and drummer Bryan Hargreaves in a new version of the band.