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Feb 10, 2018 12:40:35 GMT
Post by Timeblue on Feb 10, 2018 12:40:35 GMT
Finally going to see them this year for the first time! Just booked tickets for Darlington June 17th. I've been a fan since 1980 and never seen them live  They are playing with A-ha which I don't mind and Tom Bailey of Thomson Twins fame. Are you seeing them too Horace? |
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Post by Horacewimp on Feb 10, 2018 15:57:14 GMT
I saw them back in November on their main tour, so I’m not seeing them with A-Ha. They put on a great show you will have a good time.
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Post by Timeblue on Feb 10, 2018 16:52:25 GMT
I'm going with Mrs T so I reckoned if we saw the A-ha gig it will be more like a greatest hits type show rather than promoting the new album that will contain lots of 'new' songs that will be unfamiliar to us....
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Post by eloneen on Feb 10, 2018 17:35:59 GMT
I still have the cassette for the one OMD album I've ever bought: Crush, which was their most successful album in the US, I think. Just thinking about it reminds me of the year after I returned from France (which is when I bought it), and good times with friends during my last year of college.  On a much, much darker note... One of the songs on that album is about a real, very grim incident that happened in central NC: "88 Seconds in Greensboro." It was about a deadly clash in 1979 between Communist Workers Party activists and KKK and American Nazi Party members during a CWP march. All groups were inflammatory in their rhetoric, but the ANP and KKK came with the intention to cause harm. Five people were killed and more than a dozen were injured, some quite severely. It's known as "The Greensboro Massacre" today. There were several trials over a number of years. Among other conclusions, it was determined that the police knew about the planned KKK violence and did not provide adequate security to protect their intended targets. It's a long and complicated story. There was an early Frontline documentary about it. Here's the Wikipedia article about it, and the OMD video, which has some graphic images of KKK activities, and of the violence that day and its aftermath. Grim, indeed. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_massacre |
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Feb 13, 2018 12:45:23 GMT
Post by Horacewimp on Feb 13, 2018 12:45:23 GMT
It is likely a 40th anniversary tour will be announced on 19th February  |
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, but we're OK. 
Apparently it's quite hard to see them with the naked eye, you need to be looking through a camera or other type of lens?