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Nits Enthrall For Their Golden Jubilee Concert At Royal Theatre Carré [part 3]
…continued from last post Following a first set built around the new “Tree House Fire” EP, Nits opened their second half of their concert with the ebullient title track to 1994’s “dA dA dA.” While the lyrics always had the … Continue reading
Posted in Concert Review, Core Collection, Live Music, Organ Auction Live Event, Tourdates
Tagged 2024, Henk Hofstede, Nits
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Stick Men Lure Monk Into Club For First Time In Nearly Five Years
Has it really been four years since I’ve seen a band playing indoors? Time flies when you’re having fun. According to this very site, the last club gig I saw was my neighbor’s blues cover band, The Unrepentant Heathens, at … Continue reading
Posted in Concert Review, Core Collection, Tourdates, Your Prog Roots Are Showing
Tagged 2024, Centrozoon, King Crimson, Stick Men, Tony Levin
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“Totally Tubular Festival” Curates Bitchin’ Summer Soundtrack For 2024
Last week I got a rare post from the Thomas Dolby mailing list. Was the Professor of Technopop planning new curriculum? No! He was looking to skip school this summer and ht the road on one of those “80s Package Tours.” … Continue reading
Posted in Record Review, Tourdates
Tagged 2024, Bow Wow Wow, Men Without Hats, Modern English, Package Tour, Plimsouls, The Romantics, Thomas Dolby, Thompson Twins, Tommy Tutone
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Two Great Tastes: Icehouse And Simple Minds Check Roots On T-Rex Classic
The last post about Derek Forbes’ autobiography touched on the connections between Australia’s Icehouse and Scotland’s Simple Minds as both bands had significant history dating back to their teaming up in 1981 for tours of Oz and the UK in … Continue reading
Posted in Core Collection, Immaterial Music, Record Review, Scots Rock, Tourdates, Want List
Tagged 2023, Australian Rock, cover version, Icehouse, New Wave Cover Version
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Simple Minds’ Bassist Extraordinaire Derek Forbes Unleashes His Autobiography
If we have learned anything in the 42 years of listening, often compulsively, to Simple Minds, it’s the fact that the band’s most compelling music was usually down to the sinuous and trance-inducing bass lines of Derek Forbes. I first … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Core Collection, Scots Rock, Tourdates
Tagged 2023, autobiography, Derek Forbes, Simple Minds
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Plan Now For Mari Wilson’s Christmas Cavalcade Tour For 2023
A the year of 2023 is rushing headlong into the wind, a recent missive from the Mari Wilson mailing list informs us that it’s not too late to be planning for Christmas cheer when her 2023 Christmas Party tour will … Continue reading
DEVO Farewell Tour? Not So Much, Apparently
A while back we were discussing that DEVO so-called “farewell tour.” It would be remiss of me not to mention that Booji Boy himself has disputed the notion of a big wrap up for the prophetic spudboys. Chasinvictoria sent the … Continue reading



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