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Legendary new wavers the Psychedelic Furs recently announced they will be teaming up with Happy Mondays on a North American tour this fall. Furs lead singer Richard Butler has also been fueling the flames of scuttlebutt about a new album from the band in the near future.
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The podcast for our 6/26/09 Revenge of the 80s Radio Show is up and available at the bottom of this post.
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This week’s show features music from classic alternative artists including Berlin (Happy Birthday Terri Nunn), Dramarama, Robey, Madness and The Pursuit of Happiness.
We also played a Micheal Jackson track in tribute to the longtime pop singer, who elevated the mini-movie music video concept among other accomplishments, after he passed away suddenly at age 50.
Revenge of the 80s Podcast
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Click here to listen live between 7-9pm Eastern US Time. You can also get the show from our flagship station website: www.wtbq.com.
This week on Revenge of the 80s, we want to say “Happy Birthday” to Terri Nunn who will be celebrating tonight in concert at the Rosemont in Chicago with Berlin and the Regeneration Tour. We will play a classic Berlin track in her honor. We will also pay tribute to Michael Jackson who, although was a more mainstream artist, transcended the restrictions of genre. Also, what 80s fan did not grow up listening to the Jackson 5 one way or another?
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We will also play cuts from several great artists of the era including Madness, Voice of the Beehive, Echo & the Bunnymen and The Little Girls.
Revenge of the 80s airs live on Friday nights 7-9ET on Q99.1FM in the Hudson Valley (www.wtbq.com) and on Wednesdays 12noon Melbourne, AUS time on Radio 80s 87.6FM. Podcasts are available on Saturdays after the live show. We also air Wednesdays 6-8pm and Saturdays 10am-12noon on The Volt.
Like virtually everyone who heard the news of popular music icon Michael Jackson’s sudden passing at age 50, I was a bit taken aback. Jackson was in the middle of a comeback after his criminal allegations and financial woes forcing the sale of his “Neverland.’ He was gearing up to start a European Tour and a concert with his brothers for a Jackson 5 reunion. Jackson was also very young in relation to America’s current longevity trend. While he is more of a mainstream artist as compared to the format of this radio program, Jackson’s contribution to music, videos, the entertainment business and the lives of 80s fans must not be understated.
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The podcast for our 6/19 Revenge of the 80s Radio show is up. This week, we rebroadcast our interview with Tony Kinman, co-founder of The Dils, Rank & File and Blackbird. We discuss the San Francisco Punk Scene of the 1970s. Our conversation leads off the second hour.
Revenge of the 80s Podcast
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Regeneration Tour 2009 rolled into New York on June 18th in front of a standing room only crowd at the Fillmore. This year’s lineup featured The Cutting Crew, Wang Chung, Terri Nunn & Berlin and ABC. The show show boasts great performances from top classic alternative artists with some new music and several interesting surprises.
Leading off the concert was Nick Van Eede and his new incarnation of the Cutting Crew. Van Eede and company brought with them a sense of humor throughout his set from playing along with some sound adjustment problems in the beginning to kidding around with the audience about their wanting to hear the more familiar songs. The band seemed to have a loose attitude on stage and played as if they were a free-wheeling 70s classic rock band. Four songs in, however, Van Eede reminded everyone at the Fillmore of why he is considered one of the better balladeers of the 1980s with his early hit “I’ve Been In Love Before.” This was after one of the band’s deeper cuts and a selection from their forthcoming Spectra records album (due out this fall) called “Shot of Democracy,” as the band tool a political tone here — a turn from their more romantic approach of the 80s and 90s. They saved their two most well-known hits for last as they played “One For the Mockingbird” before closing out with “I Just Died In Your Arms Last Night; the latter featured a more classic rock-reminiscent surprise guitar solo by Asif Illyas.
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Wang Chung to the stage next with their first appearance together in New York since 1987. Jack Hues and Nick Feldman reunited and are set to release their new album, Abducted by the 80s, in 2010. During our interview a few weeks ago, Hues indicated he and Feldmnan would take a jeans-and-acoustic approach to the Regeneration Tour; with that, the duo delivered a new hybrid of the Wang Chung fans know best and the eclectic musical backgrounds of both Hues and Feldman. They led off with “Don’t Let Go,” performing it with a blues/rock influence and a heavy guitar sound. Keyboards were again exchanged for strings in “Let’s Go,” which took surprisingly well to the different sound. The set seemed to be heavily influenced by the twosome’s post-Wang Chung projects, including Hues’ new jazz band, The Quartet. Old time fans, however, might remember the Huang Chung days of more guitar and percussion-oriented sound ahead of the keyboard stylings of the Points and Mosaic albums.
Click here to listen live between 7-9pm Eastern US Time. You can also get the show from our flagship station website: www.wtbq.com.
This week, Revenge of the 80s will re-broadcast a the show featuring a conversation with Tony Kinman of the Dils, Rank & File, Blackbird and, currently, Los Trendy. Kinman and his brother co-founded the Dils, one of punk’s most influential bands. Our interview leads off the second hour of the show.
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The long-awaited 2009 Regeneration Tour is ready to move and starts tomorrow in Boston. Revenge of the 80s will be at The Fliimore in New York City on Thursday night to cover the show; we will provide a review with pictures shortly afterward.
This year’s tour will feature Terri Nunn & Berlin, ABC, Wang Chung and the Cutting Crew. ABC was on last year’s tour. Missing Persons will appear at select concerts.
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The podcast for our 6/12 Revenge of the 80s Radio show is up and available at the bottom of this post. Leading off the second hour, we spent some time with ABC’s Martin Fry, who will once again perform on the Regeneration Tour. Fry talked with us before last year’s concert series; that discussion can be found here.
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Our conversation focused on some of the more interesting things happening with ABC recently, including the fine reception received from fans of all ages from last year’s Traffic album, an upcoming charity trek through the desert lands of Namibia and a special full-orchestra performance commemorating The Lexicon of Love as one of the world’s greatest albums. We also discussed Martin’s thoughts on performing live over the past few decades, cool suits and some new music coming from ABC.
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Revenge of the 80s Podcast
Click here to listen live between 7-9pm Eastern US Time. You can also get the show from our flagship station website: www.wtbq.com.
This week, we welcome the original Lexicon of Love, Martin Fry, to Revenge of the 80s Radio as he gets set to kick off his second straight year with the Regeneration Tour. We had Martin on last year and discussed some of ABC’s history as well as Fry’s foray into Reality TV and last year’s “Traffic” CD.
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This time, we will talk about the several new things happening with ABC, including this year’s tour, Martin’s upcoming trek through Namibia for charity and upcoming new music from the band. We also get Fry’s thoughts on performing live for more than 30 years and, of course, cool suits. Our conversation leads off the second hour of the show.
