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Click here to listen to Revenge of the 80s Radio LIVE 7-9pm Ea>stern US time Tonight’s show will feature a re-broadcast of our interview with the great songrwiter/musician/singer/storyteller Stan Ridgway. We will also feature tracks from artists including REM, Amazulu and Kate Bush. Revenge of the 80s Radio airs live every Friday night 7-9pm on […]
This week, Revenge of the 80s Radio will feature a re-play of an interview with the legendary musician/singer/songwriter/storyteller Stan Ridgway. Most famous for being a founding member of Wall of Voodoo, Ridgway started in the music business writing scores for movies as his own company. Ridgway talks during the interview about the need for musical […]
<p>We apologize for the delay: After a short vacation and a fix of some technical issues, our podcast from the last show is up. We featured some classic music from the new wave era as always, including a track from the late Robert Hazard who passed away on August 5th while fighting pancreatic cancer. Hazard […]
The podcast for out August 8, 2008 Revenge of the 80s Radio show is up (available at the bottom of the post). Mike Score, founder and frontman for A Flock of Seagulls, took some time away from the Regeneration Tour 2008 to talk with us. [amazonify]::omakase::300:250[/amazonify] After a brief chat about the hair, we were […]
Click here to listen to Revenge of the 80s Radio LIVE 7-9pm Ea>stern US time As the Regeneration Tour 2008 rolls on, A Flock of Seagulls founder and frontman Mike Score takes some time to talk with Revenge of the 80s Radio. The former hairdresser combined his own creative talents with his love of science […]
This week, Revenge of the 80s will features a chat with Mike Score, leader of A Flock of Seagulls. While most of the U.S. associates the band with Score’s flashy hairstyles, A Flock of Seagulls’ music might have been underrated by music fans in the states. Score was careful to offer people a band whose […]
The podcast for this week’s Revenge of the 80s Radio show is up. With the upcoming final Police concert in New York, we invited Lynn Goldsmith, the famed photographer who put together the 2007 book The Police: 1978-1983 featuring a huge collection of her work with the band as well as quotes and insights from […]
Click here to listen to Revenge of the 80s Radio LIVE 7-9pm Ea>stern US time This week, we will cover three major new wave stories: MTV’s 27th anniversary The Regeneration Tour kicks off its run through North America The Police’s last concert – August 7 in New York We will talk with famed rock photographer […]
The podcast for our July 25th show featuring our interview with Terri Nunn is up and now available at the bottom of this post. Terri is best known as the former lead singer of Berlin. She is also an accomplished solo artist, a writer, talk radio personality and a devoted mom. Some fans might remember […]
Click here to listen to Revenge of the 80s Radio LIVE 7-9pm Ea>stern US time Tonight’s Revenge of the 80s Radio show will feature our interview with Terri Nunn, best known as the former lead singer of Berlin. She is also an ex-actress, writer, talk radio personality and mom. We talk about Terri’s career, Berlin […]
Friday night’s Revenge of the 80s Radio show will feature an interview with Terri Nunn, best known as the former lead singer of Berlin. It was in the late 1970s when Nunn, as a young actress, was offered a role in TV’s Dallas (the one Charlene Tilton would eventually play). It was not known then […]
***NOTE – WordPress is not allowing me to put up the podcast as playable on the blog without download at this time. It is now only downloadable at this point. We are still attempting to fix these techinical difficulties. On Friday night’s Revenge of the 80s radio show, we featured our interview with Phil Oakey […]
Click here to listen to Revenge of the 80s Radio LIVE 7-9pm Ea>stern US time Tonight on Revenge of the 80s, we talk with Phil Oakey of The Human League, who are gearing up for the Regeneration Tour, which begins on August 1st. Phil had been with the band since his old buddy Martyn Ware […]
This Friday night, Revenge of the 80s welcmes The Human League’s Phil Oakey. The band is coming to America in August as part of the Regeneration Tour. The Human League started out in the late 1970s as a different kind of band; they were more on the experimental side. [amazonify]B0007X9U7Y:right[/amazonify] Oakey actually joined the band […]
ABC is considered the defining group for the New Romantic style of music that was first popular in the U,K, before sweeping into the states. The style, the smoothness of the sound and (as our guest Martin Fry put it) the big choruses are what drew people to the new wave splinter genre. Fry was […]
Click here to listen to Revenge of the 80s Radio LIVE 7-9pm Ea>stern US time The Original Lexicon of Love will appear on Revenge of the 80s tonight. ABC’s Martin Fry, who will be performing in the Regeneration Tour hitting North America in August. We talk about some of Martin’s influences, as well as his […]
The Little Girls will record a track onthe upcoming Jonathan Richman tribute album. Richman, one of the pioneers of the Proto-Punk movement in the 1970s, will be honored by several Southern California-based artists in the CD, which is currently a work in progress. Caron, Michele, Kip and the band will perform “The Beach.” Richman is […]
The man who rendered me only the second-best-dressed 80s guy in the world will be my guest on this week’s Revenge of the 80s Radio show — Martin Fry of ABC. ABC will be touring the U.S. in August as part of the Regeneration Tour, which kicks off on August 1st. The lineup also includes […]
The podcast for our July 4, 2008 Revenge of the 80s show featuring a re-broadcast of our interview with Rose MacDowall is up. Rose is best known as part of “Strawberry Switchblade,” one of four bands she had helped form through her career. These days, Rose’s beautiful voice can be heard as a fixture in […]
Click here to listen to Revenge of the 80s Radio LIVE 7-0pm Ea>stern US time Tonight’s show will feature a re-broadcast of our interview with Rose MacDowall, formerly of Strawberry Switchblade. Rose talks about her music, her life and her eclectic career. [amazonify]B000BZPS0Q[/amazonify] Rose is currently working on a new album, but over the past […]
The podcast for our 6/27 Revenge of the 80s Show Featuring Dale Bozzio is up. Dale is best known as the singer and a fouding member of Missing Persons, a band that was not only ahead of its time, but is considered by many music historians to be true icons of thw L.A. New Wave […]
Click Here to Listen Live tonight, 6/27/08 7-9pm Eastern US time Tonight’s Revenge of the 80s features an interview with the immensely talented Dale Bozzio of Missing Persons. Dale, Terry Bozzio, Warren Cuccarillo and Patrick O’Hearn came from the Frank Zappa musical projects to form this vastly unique band whose fine musicians set them apart […]
This week’s broadcast of Revenge of the 80s featured an encore presentation of our earlier interview with Tracey and Missy Belland of Voice of the Beehive. We talk about hwo they got started after moving from sunny California to London, their careers and what they are doing now. Also, Missy’s new line of fairies will […]
Click Here to Listen Live 7-9pm Eastern US time We might as well make it Voice of the Beehive week. First, we hear news that former bassist Martin Brett has joined a new band, we will soon release details of a TV show that Missy Beehive will appear on as a guest, and tonight, Revenge […]
Click Here to Listen to Revenge of the 80s Radio Live 7-9pm Eastern U.S. Time. Tonight, June 13, 2008, I am honored to have Annabella Lwin as my guest. While we will talk about her career and new music, this is an especially important discussion because Annabella has been out front in helping relied efforts […]
Considered by many as the top party band of the 1980s, the B-52s are headed to Sullivan County, NY as part of their nationwide tour through much bigger cities to play at the Bethel Woods Center For the Arts, the location of he historic Woodstock concert in 1969. The B-52s, who did videos in the […]
This Friday night, our guest on Revenge of the 80s Radio will be Annabella Lwin, who is currently working hard on an important project: her relief efforts to help the victims of Cyclone Nargis, which devastated her home town of Yangoon, Myanmar, Burma on May 2nd. While we do talk about Annabella’s career from her […]
The podcast for our Revenge of the 80s show from 6/6/08 is up. We played a track (during the 2nd hour) from Aimee Mann’s new CD, @#%&*! Smilers. The album was released on June 3rd and Mann is currently on tour to promote it. Among the artists we highlighted during the show were: Kim Wilde, […]
Click here to listen live 7-9pm Eastern US time! Tonight will be an all-music night on Revenge of the 80s Radio. We will feature tracks from Kim Wilde, Voice of the Beehive, Nikki and the Corvettes, The Cure and more. To salute Aimee Mann on the release of her new CD,[amazonify]B00171MNKQ::text::::@#%&*! Smilers[/amazonify] , we wil […]