08-31-2025, 08:16 PM
Christina's co-worked got free tickets from her client at the last minute and I didn't know exactly what we were going to. I thought it was Flock of Seagulls and Big Country, but it was a whole bunch of bands (with their hits):
Josie Cotton (Johnny Ae You Queer?)
The Polecats (Make a Circuit with Me)
Belois Some (Imagination)
Peter Godwin (Images of Heaven)
China Crisis (Wishful Thinking)
Big Country (In a Big Country)
The Vapors (Turning Japanese)
General Public (Tenderness)
Flock of Seagulls (I Ran)
Because she got the tickets last minute, we were late and missed the first two bands, so I don't know if Josie Cotton played that song, since it's so un-PC. They were VIP tickets so we hung out in the lounge for a while and had snacks. The earlier sythpop acts all had the same keyboard player and it seemed during China Crisis that some parts were pre-programmed rather than played by him. The Big Country drummer played for several groups. Richard Blade came out and talked while they changed setups between bands, which went pretty quickly.
Unlike our last trip there, the audience this time wanted to hear the music and no one was chatting. The sound was better for the synthpop acts than the later bands. The bands sounded unbalanced, but we were close, right at the PA line, so maybe that was why. The Vapors were terrible and the singer looked unhealthy and miserable. The Vapors, Big Country and General Public only had one original member, so only a vague shadow of the original band, and neither was all that good. China Crisis kind of stole the show because the singer had some really funny banter, and the sound was the best during their set. Christina's friend and her husband wanted to leave early so we left before Flock of Seagulls started. (I had seen them in a documentary a few years ago and the footage of them playing at that time showed a very mediocre performance, so I didn't care too much.)
Josie Cotton (Johnny Ae You Queer?)
The Polecats (Make a Circuit with Me)
Belois Some (Imagination)
Peter Godwin (Images of Heaven)
China Crisis (Wishful Thinking)
Big Country (In a Big Country)
The Vapors (Turning Japanese)
General Public (Tenderness)
Flock of Seagulls (I Ran)
Because she got the tickets last minute, we were late and missed the first two bands, so I don't know if Josie Cotton played that song, since it's so un-PC. They were VIP tickets so we hung out in the lounge for a while and had snacks. The earlier sythpop acts all had the same keyboard player and it seemed during China Crisis that some parts were pre-programmed rather than played by him. The Big Country drummer played for several groups. Richard Blade came out and talked while they changed setups between bands, which went pretty quickly.
Unlike our last trip there, the audience this time wanted to hear the music and no one was chatting. The sound was better for the synthpop acts than the later bands. The bands sounded unbalanced, but we were close, right at the PA line, so maybe that was why. The Vapors were terrible and the singer looked unhealthy and miserable. The Vapors, Big Country and General Public only had one original member, so only a vague shadow of the original band, and neither was all that good. China Crisis kind of stole the show because the singer had some really funny banter, and the sound was the best during their set. Christina's friend and her husband wanted to leave early so we left before Flock of Seagulls started. (I had seen them in a documentary a few years ago and the footage of them playing at that time showed a very mediocre performance, so I didn't care too much.)
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