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Revenge of the 80s is inviting listeners to offer their input for an upcoming list of the Top 50 Cover Songs of the 1980s.
Dave Alvin and Exene Cervenka lead a tribute concert in honor of fellow musician and friend Amy Farris on October 21, 2009
This week’s podcast features a re-broadcast of our May 2008 interview with Jean MacColl.
In honor of what would have been Kirsty MacColl’s 50th birthday on October 10th, we are re-broadcasting our May 2, 2008 show, when I talked with Jean MacColl (Kirsty’s mother), for tonight’s show.
10 Reasons for 80s Fans to Go to Chiller Theatre Halloween 2009
Today, October 10th would have been Kirsty MacColl’s 50th birthday. The sad news of her tragic accident in 2001 while vacationing in Cozumel struck music fans around the world and continues to be a story of corruption and injustice that led to a fight which her family continues today.
The podcast for this week’s Revenge of the 80s Radio show is up. This week, Louise Robey joins us for the second time.
Tonight, Louise Robey is back with us on Revenge of the 80s to talk about her upcoming appearance at the Chiller Theatre Expo in Parippany, New Jersey as well as her new music, upcoming anthology, the release of the third season Friday the 13th – the Series DVD and news on her artists forum.
Adriana Kaegi’s documentary, Kid Creole and My Coconuts, is officially on the schedule to be screened at the CMJ Film Destival in New York City. It is scheduled to run 9:15pm, October 22nd at the Clearview Theater on 23rd Street
Louise Robey, known as singer and actress “Robey” in the 80s, will be back for another visit on Revenge of the 80s Radio this week. She will be at the 2009 Chiller Theatre Expo at the Hilton in Parsippany, New Jersey for Halloween Weekend.
If you are a fan of The Coconuts, or a fan of great classic alternative music, please sign this petition that is being sent to EMI record company asking them to re-release Don’t Take My Coconuts.
This week’s Revenge of the 80s Radio show features classic alternative music from artists including XTC, Icehouse, The Untouchables, Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush, The Motels, Romeo Void and Voice of the Beehive. We will also play new tracks from The Little Girls and Gorevette.
Revenge of the 80s Radio welcomes new affiliate Seymour FM in Seymour, Victoria, Australia.
The Pogues announce their Fall 2009 tour dates in the US.
This week’s show featured great driving music of the 1980s. Artists featured in this weeks show include Men Without Hats, The Kings, Pearl Harbor and the Explosions and Nikki and the Corvettes. We also played new cuts from Josie Cotton, ABC and Stan Ridgway with Pietra Wexstun.
This week’s Revenge of the 80s will be packed with some of the nest driving music of the 1980s. Artists featured include The Little Girls, Nikki and the Corvettes, The Kings and Jason and the Scorchers.
Louise Robey, best known to 80s fans as “Micki Foster” from Friday the 13th – the Series and fro m her hit song “One Night in Bangkok,” will appear at Chiller Theatre on Halloween weekend 2009.
This week’s show featured a re-broadcast of our interview with the legendary Nikki Corvette. This was her second appearance on the show; we talked about Gorevette, the new band she formed with Amy Gore of The Gore Gore Girls.
While I am out on vacation this week, we will rebroadcast our 1/9/09 show featuring a conversation with Nikki Corvette on the band she recently formed with Amy Gore (The Gore Gore Girls), Gorevette. We will also have some of the first tracks they recorded on the show.
The podcast version of our 9/5/09 Revenge of the 80s Radio show is up and available at the bottom of this post. The second our of our show features Classic New Wave music by artists from Australia and New Zealand.
The second hour will feature classic alternative/new wave music by artists from Australia and New Zealand.
Adriana Kaegi was my guest when I filled in as host of Money Matters on the Business Talk Radio Network last week; we discussed Dear Addy Productions and the importance and value of social networking for businesses who want to harness the new media.
An interesting story recently came out in the British News Site Expressansstar.com, chronicling original Dexy’s Midnight Runners Bassist Pete Williams’ effort to help keep his childhood swimming hole, the Cossley Baths near his then home in Whiteheath, alive.
This week’s show features a conversation with Josie Cotton, who became the world’s new wave sweetheart when she performed (already an international hit) “Johnny Are You Queer” in the movie Valley Girl.
Tonight’s Revenge of the 80s Radio show will feature a conversation with Josie Cotton. Most 80s fans remember Cotton for her performance of “Johnny, Are You Queer?” on Valley Girl. While it was an international hit, controversy over the song wound up depriving us at the time of the musical talents of this fine songwriter.
From the superbly elegant solo album by Adriana Kaegi. TAG, comes this sultry, bedazzling track with a new video to match.
Josie Cotton is our guest on Revenge of the 80s Radio on Friday. Many remember her as the prom band singer in the Valley Girl movie and from her international hit song “Johnny, Are You Queer?”
The podcast for our 8/24/09 Revenge of the 80s Radio show is up and available at the end of this post. The second hour features a re-broadcast of our November 2008 interview with Robin Lane.
While I am on a short break in Virginia, Revenge of the 80s will re-broadcast our show featuring a conversation with Robin Lane.
To commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Woodstock concert that was not played in Woodstock, we dedicated the second hour of the program to Woodstock-era songs covered by artists of the 1980s.