Let's Active

Let's Active
Let's Active performing in 2014 (Suzi Ziegler, bass; Mitch Easter, guitar)
Background information
Origin	Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Genres	Jangle pop, power pop, alternative rock
Years active	1981–1990, 2014
Labels	I.R.S. Records
Associated acts	Tres Chicas, the Windbreakers, Grover, Velvet Crush, Shalini, the Fiendish Minstrels, Snatches of Pink, Dex Romweber Duo, Game Theory, the Love Language
Past members	Mitch Easter Faye Hunter Sara Romweber Angie Carlson Rob Ladd Eric Marshall Jon Heames Suzi Ziegler

Let's Active is an American rock group formed in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 1981, and often identified with the jangle pop guitar work of the group's frontman and songwriter Mitch Easter. After disbanding in 1990, the group reformed in August 2014 to play a benefit show in North Carolina.

Let's Active was formed in 1981 by Mitch Easter, a guitarist and songwriter best known as a record producer, with Faye Hunter on bass. Drummer Sara Romweber, then 17 years old, joined to form the original trio two weeks before their first live performance.

The name of the group was taken from a T-shirt sold in Japan bearing an inadvertently nonsensical English phrase (a popular fashion at the time). In a 1984 interview, Hunter said, "It's embarrassing for people to ask you what the name of your group is and you don't want to say it out loud", and noted that the band had been erroneously billed by promoters as "Let's Dance" and "Les Active".

The group played their first performance in November 1981, opening for R.E.M., whose first EP, Chronic Town (1982), was produced by Easter. He also co-produced R.E.M.'s first two albums (1983's Murmur and 1984's Reckoning) with Don Dixon.

The band was signed to I.R.S. Records in 1983, shortly after filming the video for "Every Word Means No" as guests on the label's MTV television program, I.R.S. Records Presents The Cutting Edge. According to Easter, the cheaply made "econo-video" was based on the band's concept of having dogs running through the set, "which would make it chaos. But they couldn't get dogs, so instead they got these puppies, which changed the vibe considerably – and changed the worldview of our band for all eternity, because these puppies were just so adorable".