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He signed as Fad Gadget to Daniel Miller's Silent Records, which was almost immediately home to similar but additional profitable synthpop act Depeche Mode. He was the primary performer to symbol to Silent. As Fashion Gadget, his music was characterized by a distinctive use of synthesizers in conjunction by means of sounds of found objects, including drills and emotional razors. His bleak, sarcastic, and mysteriously humorous lyrics were often layered in meaning, plus discussed subjects such as machinery, structure construction, human sexuality, and bodily violence.

His singing style, a droning monotone, influenced later gothic and industrial rock actions. Tovey was particularly infamous intended for spreading his naked body in chip cream onstage, an image of which is depicted on the wrap of The Best of Fad Gadget. He recorded several LPs of more new labor under the name Forthright Tovey, beginning by means of Simple Listening for the Firm of Hearing, a collaboration with Boyd Rice in 1984.

He sustained to perform until his death. He absent a companion, a daughter (Morgan) plus a son (Joseph).