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A Cleveland Sojourn II: Or, How I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love Howard Jones – Live @ Temple Live Masonic – Aug. 31st, 2024

[…continued from last post] HOWARD JONES So my antipathy towards Howard Jones is well documented. Lately, I am wont to refer to him as the “nail in synthpop’s coffin.” Ouch! That pretty much sums up my staunch resistance to what … Continue reading

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ABC★★★, Howard Jones, + Haircut 100 Unite To Trek Across North America This Summer

Against all odds, I got a wild hair to visit abcmartinfry.com for my semiannual visit last week and saw they are undertaking a US tour with HoJo (him again) and the original Haircut 100 lineup and they are in Cleveland … Continue reading

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REDUX: Scarcity vs. Ubiquity: The Rise And Fall Of Synthpop [part 5]

By 1981, with The Human League transitioning to a completely different type of synthpop band, the UK charts began to get crowded with synthesizers as the goldrush to capitalize on the beachhead that Gary Numan established in 1979 led to … Continue reading

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OMD @ Raleigh – Red Hat Amphitheater 7-3-16

I knew from the onset that this was going to be a weird one, but when a favorite band… a core collection, favorite band, were appearing just a few hours away, I thought it was crazy not to go. Besides, … Continue reading

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Sacre Bleu! OMD Release 2016 US Tour Dates!

The last time I saw OMD on US soil was during the first leg of their reasonably wide ranging 2011 tour behind their “History Of Modern” album. I even popped for VIP tickets. It was a feast of OMD following … Continue reading

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