Endgames are a Scottish

Scotland

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 New Wave

New Wave music

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 band, who had some success in the 1980s with singles

Single (music)

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 such as "Waiting For Another Chance" and "Love Cares".

Biography

In 1980, the singer and bassist

Bassist

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 David Rudden left his synthpop band, Berlin Blondes

Berlin Blondes

Berlin Blondes was an early Glasgow synthpop band, who formed in 1978 and released a major-label album in 1980. Members went on to Altered Images and Endgames....

, to form Endgames in Glasgow

Glasgow

Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...

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The line-up for the band's first released single, 1982's "We Feel Good (Our Future's Looking Fine)", consisted of Rudden, Paul Wishart, David Murdoch and Douglas Muirden. Wishart had played with Simple Minds

Simple Minds

Simple Minds are a Scottish rock band who achieved worldwide popularity from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. The band produced a handful of critically acclaimed albums in the early 1980s and best known for their #1 US, Canada and Netherlands hit single "Don't You ", from the soundtrack of the...

 as saxophonist

Saxophone

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 on their 'Empires and Dance' tour in 1980. At various points, other band members included Alex Harvey

Alex Harvey (musician)

Alex Harvey was a Scottish rock musician. With The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, he built a reputation as an exciting live performer during the 1970s glam rock era.-Biography:...

's cousin Willie Gardner

Willie Gardner

Willie Gardner was a Scottish musician, who formed part of various pop and rock bands in the 1970s and 1980s, playing guitar. He was a cousin of the glam rock icon Alex Harvey....

, formerly from The Zones, and drummer Brian McGee

Brian McGee (drummer)

Brian McGee is a Scottish drummer who played in different bands like Simple Minds and Endgames.He met future Simple Minds frontman Jim Kerr at Holyrood R.C...

, formerly of the Simple Minds. The band recorded two Peel sessions

John Peel

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE , known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004...

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"We Feel Good" and the band's follow-up single released in the same year, "First, Last, For Everything," found success in clubs in Europe and North America. This led to the release of their 1983 album

Album

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. Building Beauty, which was produced

Record producer

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 by Colin Campsie

Colin Campsie

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 and George McFarlane of The Quick. This album spawned worldwide hit single

Hit single

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s in "Waiting for Another Chance" and "Love Cares". "Waiting For Another Chance" was especially well received in Germany

Germany

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 (#21 in September 1983) and the band toured in Europe with Howard Jones

Howard Jones (musician)

Howard Jones is a musician, singer and songwriter. According to the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums, "Jones is an accomplished singer-songwriter who was a regular chart visitor in the mid 1980s with his brand of synthpop. Jones, who was equally popular in the U.S., appeared at Live...

, Eurythmics

Eurythmics

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 and Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode

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. The single "Miracle in My Heart" included a B-side

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 mix

Remix

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 of the song "Ecstasy", that was later sampled

Sampling (music)

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 by Heavy D (Nuttin' But Love).

Endgames released a second album, Natural, in 1985, which included the single "Shouting Out For Love".

Another band member, David Wilde, played drums and saxophone with Altered Images

Altered Images

Altered Images were an early 1980s Scottish New Wave / post-punk band. Led by lead singer Clare Grogan, the band branched into mainstream pop music, and had a string of chart hits between 1981 and 1983.-Early career:...

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The band variously had recording/publishing contracts with EMI

EMI

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, MCA

MCA Records

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, Virgin

Virgin Records

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 and Mercury

Mercury Records

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Rudden continues to record as Endgames, with recent work including Diamond Runnin. He is also a record producer

Record producer

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, artist and clothing designer.

Singles

• "First-Last-For Everything" (1982)
• "We Feel Good (Future's Looking Fine)" (1982)
• "Waiting For Another Chance" (1983)
• "Love Cares" (1983)
• "Desire" (1983)
• "Miracle In My Heart" (1983)
• "Ecstasy" (1984)
• "Shouting Out For Love" (1985)

External links

• Peel Sessions of Endgames at the BBC
• Endgames at MySpace.com with songs and videos
• David Rudden's World of Found site (WoF is an online merchant of art and clothing as well as a creative platform based on anonymity, where artists, musicians, designers and other creators may or may not reveal their identity).
• David Rudden's G42 page at MySpace.com (G42 is Rudden's platform for songwriting and producing in collaboration with other artists, particularly in rap and hip hop).