Francis John "Frank" Tovey, known also by his stage name Fad Gadget (8 September 1956 - 3 April 2002), was a British avant-garde electronic musician and vocalist. He was a proponent of both new wave and early industrial music, fusing together a unique blend of pop structured songs mixed with mechanised experimentation.
As Fad Gadget, his music was characterised by the use of synthesizers in conjunction with sounds of found objects, including drills and electric razors. His bleak, sarcastic and darkly humorous lyrics, often layered with biting social commentary toward subjects such as machinery, industrialisation, consumerism, human sexuality, mass media, religion and domestic violence, were sung in a droning, often expressionless voice.
Early years:
Tovey was born in 1956 in the UK. At school, Tovey tried to learn many different musical instruments. He realised he did not have the co-ordination to be able to play any of them really well.
Tovey drifted away from the idea of playing...
