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English synth pop band

Landscape were an English synth pop band, best known for the 1981 hits "Einstein a Go Go" and "Norman Bates". Formed in London in 1975, the band toured constantly during the mid to late 1970s, playing rock, punk and jazz venues and releasing two instrumental EPs on its own Event Horizon label. The group began experimenting with computer programmed music and electronic drums in the late 1970s and early 1980s, making records in the emerging genre of synth pop.

Landscape comprises Richard James Burgess (drums, computer programming, synths, vocals), Christopher Heaton (keyboard synthesizers, piano, vocals), Andy Pask (fretted and fretless basses, bass synth, vocals), Peter Thoms (trombone, electric trombone, vocals), and John L. Walters (lyricon, soprano sax, alto flute, computer programming, synths, vocals).

Following the release of Landscape's third and final studio album, Manhattan Boogie Woogie, the band became a trio, composed of Burgess, Pask, and Walters. The trio broke up in 1984 and band members went on to separate careers. Heaton and Walters went on to careers in music production. Walters co founded CD journal Unknown Public, in 1992 with Laurence Aston and worked widely as a writer and editor. He has been the editor of Eye since 1999, and its co owner since 2008. Pask worked as a session musician and co wrote the theme music for the long running British ITV series The Bill. Thoms later appeared on Thomas Dolby's second studio album The Flat Earth (1984) and toured with Dolby that year playing trombone. He also served as a member of staff at the Musicians’ Union's head office in Britain.

Year Album UK Label 1979 Landscape – RCA 1981 From the Tea rooms of Mars 13 RCA 1982 Manhattan Boogie Woogie – RCA