Description: Home page of Alien Skin, an electronic dance music artist from Melbourne. Alternative 80s dark post punk synthpop from former member of Australian new wave band, Real Life, of chart topper 'Send Me An Angel'.
NEW EP These Days Are The Darkest Available from bandcamp Alien Skin Home About News ALIEN SKIN LYRICS VIDEOS Contact About Alien Skin is alternative 80s, electro-dark-pop and darkwave, from underground Australia and active for over 40 years. George Pappas, performing as Alien Skin, is a former member of Real Life. The Australian new wave/synth band topped 1984 charts with their million seller, Send Me An Angel.
Upon leaving Real Life in 2005 recording commenced on what became the debut Alien Skin album, 'Don’t Open Till Doomsday'. The album found favour at the time with a MySpace audience of synthpop and darkwave fans, especially of 80s 'Black Celebration' era Depeche Mode persuasion. It was through this once pervasive and powerful social platform a fan base of support emerged and grew. The music continues consciously evolving and being reimagined. From the atmospheric early releases, described by New York's 'Grav
"The pursuit of electropop music on my home turf, dominated by a dated rock industry, was a struggle against mainstream indifference throughout the 80s. But I hung on. The 80s didn't become ' The 80s' till much later."