The Fenelle and Blue years, 1992–1996

Ultravox split in 1987, after the tour for U-Vox. Five years later Billy Currie, the only musician who had played in every version of the band, revived the name.

Tony Fenelle and Revelation

The 1992 line-up was Currie with the singer and guitarist Tony Fenelle. It made one album, Revelation, released on the German label DSB on 10 May 1993 (catalogue number DSB 3098-2, ten tracks). Its single, “I Am Alive”, reached number 80 in Germany. A France-only promotional single, “System of Love”, appeared in 1992.

Sam Blue and Ingenuity

Sam Blue replaced Fenelle in 1993 or 1994; the sources disagree on the year, and the archive records both. With Vinny Burns on guitar, Tony Holmes on drums and Gary Williams on bass, the band became a five-piece. Ingenuity followed on 10 November 1994. Wikipedia credits it to Intercord; the copy catalogued by MusicBrainz is on Resurgence (RES109CD), which is unresolved.

Two singles from it, “Ingenuity” and “There Goes a Beautiful World”, were issued only in Australasia in 1995, and “Giving It All Back” was a German promotional single in 1994. A live album, Future Picture, recorded in Italy in 1993, was released by Receiver on 12 June 1995. The line-up dissolved in 1996.

How the authorised biography treats them

Richard Evans covers both line-ups in Looking Backwards Towards the Future (2026). In an interview with Kaput he said he does not regard the two records as true Ultravox albums, describing them as “interesting Billy Currie projects”. This archive takes no position on that: it lists Revelation and Ingenuity as studio albums because they were released under the name, and documents them with the same care as the rest.

What is not yet documented

No concert from 1992–1996 has yet been entered in the gigography. The dates of the Ingenuity tour, the venues of the Italian concert recorded for Future Picture, and authority records for Tony Fenelle, Tony Holmes and Gary Williams are all open.

Drafting note: the wording of this essay was drafted with the help of an AI language model from the sources listed below. Every fact in it comes from those sources, and it is published only after an editor has checked each statement against them.