Level 9 was a short-lived British new wave band that existed from 1978 to 1980. They were formed in

Manchester Manchester () is a city and the metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It had an estimated population of in . Greater Manchester is the third-most populous metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, with a population of 2.92&nbs ...

by ex-Love Explosion frontman Ian Hamilton (guitar) and David Bale (bass guitar, keyboards), together with Andy Kanavan (drums) and singer Lori Hartley. The band combined

synthpop Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop; ) is a music genre that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s ...

and

post-punk Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad genre of music that emerged in late 1977 in the wake of punk rock. Post-punk musicians departed from punk's fundamental elements and raw simplicity, instead adopting a broader, more experiment ...

styles into their songs. Level 9 only released two singles, one in 1979 and another in 1980. The first, "Touch", was written over the course of a year by Andy Kanavan and Ian Hamilton, based on Kanavan's holiday in Tokyo two years earlier. "Touch" spent one week in the German charts in 1979. In 1980, Level 9 split up.David Roberts (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). HIT Entertainment. Larkin, Colin: "The Guinness Who's Who Of Indie and New Wave Music". Guinness Publishing, 1992,

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{{Reflist English new wave musical groups Musical groups from Manchester