On Tuesday, I went to see the Total Tubular Festival in Irving, TX.
What a fantastic show.

Bow Wow Wow, Tom Bailey of The Thompson Twins, Men Without Hats, The
Tubes, Modern English, and a few others and finishing up with Thomas
Dolby.

If you're a fan of 80's music, this is a real treat. It's a bit like
Lost 80's Live that I've posted about previously but with less bands.
This gives each act more time to perform more songs. It lasted fro 6:30
to gone 11pm.
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On Tuesday, I went to see the Total Tubular Festival in Irving, TX.
What a fantastic show.
Bow Wow Wow, Tom Bailey of The Thompson Twins, Men Without Hats, The Tubes, Modern English, and a few others and finishing up with Thomas Dolby.

That sounds like a really great time and a fantastic way to spend a summer day! A good lineup, for sure.


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On 13 Jul 2024 at 10:45p, Nigel Reed pondered and said...

On Tuesday, I went to see the Total Tubular Festival in Irving, TX.
What a fantastic show.

Bow Wow Wow, Tom Bailey of The Thompson Twins, Men Without Hats, The Tubes, Modern English, and a few others and finishing up with Thomas Dolby.

If you're a fan of 80's music, this is a real treat. It's a bit like
Lost 80's Live that I've posted about previously but with less bands.
This gives each act more time to perform more songs. It lasted fro 6:30
to gone 11pm.

This would have been great to see. Last year I saw, well, I got a glimpse of, The Violent Femmes. That's the best I could say of the 80's bands that I've seen recently. Saw The Cure in Houston in '19 and Elvis Costello earlier in the summer. Saw Post Modern Jukebox this last weekend in Austin. These are the last four concerts I've been too. I don't go often. :)

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On 06 Aug 2024, Gryphon said the following...

On 13 Jul 2024 at 10:45p, Nigel Reed pondered and said...

On Tuesday, I went to see the Total Tubular Festival in Irving, TX. What a fantastic show.

Bow Wow Wow, Tom Bailey of The Thompson Twins, Men Without Hats, The Tubes, Modern English, and a few others and finishing up with Thomas Dolby.

What a fab line-up! Wow!

On 13 Jul 2024 at 10:45p, Nigel Reed pondered and said...
Costello earlier in the summer. Saw Post Modern Jukebox this last
weekend in Austin. These are the last four concerts I've been too. I

Saw Post Modern Jukebox about a year back here in Wisconsin, great show! We've become fairly eclectic on what concerts we go to, with Andrew Bird, Peter Noonen (Herman's Hermits) and an Eagles Tribute (was a charity gig, so I am thinking we had tickets because of a donation - IDK, that is the Mrs's world there.) Rest were community symphonic band and orchestra shows.

Did take the family "Little people" to see "The Great DuBois" which is a two person circus - aka vaudville show. That was a hoot and the kids had a great time out.

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Re: Re: Totally Tubular Festival
By: Gryphon to Nigel Reed on Tue Aug 06 2024 04:16:55

This would have been great to see. Last year I saw, well, I got a glimpse of, The Violent Femmes. That's the best I could say of the 80's bands that I've seen recently. Saw The Cure in Houston in '19 and Elvis Costello earlier in the summer. Saw Post Modern Jukebox this last weekend in Austin. These are the last four concerts I've been too. I don't go often. :)

It was a very good concert from start to finish, even for the bands that played some songs I didn't know.

I saw The Cure a couple of years ago...maybe last year? I forget in Dallas. They were never on my radar, but my wife likes them. That said, I haven't heard any of their songs that I didn't really like. Just not into the goth stuff.

However, I really enjoyed the concert. There was one part where I was just totally lost in the wall of sound...can't say that happens much. I have to admit I really enjoyed that concert.

Previous to this I saw The (English) Beat and Adam Ant in Dallas. Was supposed to see The Alarm in Fort Worth but unfortunately Mike Peters cancer has come back so he couldn't travel and tour. Seen The Beat 4 or 5 times now.
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Nigel Reed wrote to Gryphon <=-

Previous to this I saw The (English) Beat and Adam Ant in Dallas. Was supposed to see The Alarm in Fort Worth but unfortunately Mike Peters cancer has come back so he couldn't travel and tour. Seen The Beat 4 or
5 times now.

One of the best retro shows I saw was The English Beat (still with
Ranking Roger, RIP) with The Plimsouls opening - this was in 2007. Man,
time flies!

The Beat (also with RR) played a beach concert in Santa Cruz in 2011 or
so with The Specials, that was a great show.

Apparently, Haircut 100 are touring England right now.

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BY: Nigel Reed (21:2/101)
On Wednesday,August 07, 2024 at 01:07 AM, Nigel Reed (21:2/101) wrote:

I've seen recently. Saw The Cure in Houston in '19 and Elvis Costello earlier in the summer. Saw Post Modern Jukebox this last weekend in Austin.

Saw The Cure at Shoreline Ampitheater in Mountain View, CA last year. Such a great show. We had lawn seats, but the view/sound was awesome. They played "Burn" from the The Crow soundtrack, and Fascination Street, two of my all-time favs...

Previous to this I saw The (English) Beat and Adam Ant in Dallas. Was supposed to see The Alarm in Fort Worth but unfortunately Mike Peters cancer has come back so he couldn't travel and tour. Seen The Beat 4 or
5 times now.

Dave Wakeling (The Beat/General Public) really gets around now, saw him at a local club last year as well and he sounds fantastic with his band. Sad that Rankin' Roger passed, I would have loved to see him play. Apparently his son, Rankin Jr, is carrying the ska torch now :)

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"poindexter FORTRAN" (21:4/122)
<poindexter.FORTRAN@f122.n4.z21.fidonet> wrote:

Nigel Reed wrote to Gryphon <=-

Previous to this I saw The (English) Beat and Adam Ant in
Dallas. Was supposed to see The Alarm in Fort Worth but
unfortunately Mike Peters cancer has come back so he couldn't
travel and tour. Seen The Beat 4 or 5 times now.

One of the best retro shows I saw was The English Beat (still with
Ranking Roger, RIP) with The Plimsouls opening - this was in 2007.
Man, time flies!

The Beat (also with RR) played a beach concert in Santa Cruz in 2011
or so with The Specials, that was a great show.

Apparently, Haircut 100 are touring England right now.

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If you get a chance to see The (English) Beat with Dave Wakeling, I
highly recommend it. You won't be disappointed.
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"J0hnny A1pha" (21:4/158) <J0hnny.A1pha@f158.n4.z21.fidonet> wrote:

BY: Nigel Reed (21:2/101)
On Wednesday,August 07, 2024 at 01:07 AM, Nigel Reed (21:2/101) wrote:

I've seen recently. Saw The Cure in Houston in '19 and Elvis
Costello earlier in the summer. Saw Post Modern Jukebox this
last weekend in Austin.

Saw The Cure at Shoreline Ampitheater in Mountain View, CA last year.
Such a great show. We had lawn seats, but the view/sound was awesome.
They played "Burn" from the The Crow soundtrack, and Fascination
Street, two of my all-time favs...

Previous to this I saw The (English) Beat and Adam Ant in Dallas.
Was supposed to see The Alarm in Fort Worth but unfortunately
Mike Peters cancer has come back so he couldn't travel and tour.
Seen The Beat 4 or 5 times now.

Dave Wakeling (The Beat/General Public) really gets around now, saw
him at a local club last year as well and he sounds fantastic with
his band. Sad that Rankin' Roger passed, I would have loved to see
him play. Apparently his son, Rankin Jr, is carrying the ska torch
now :)

So, a bit of a story here. We booked a flight from Dallas to Ontario, California to see The English Beat at The Cavern, 5 minutes after I
booked the hotel, got an email to say the gig had been canceled and
rescheduled for the next month.

On a whim, I hit the facebook page to express my displeasure at having
to rearrange my trip and they offered to send me something, asked for
my address. I said no need since I could cancel the hotel upto 24 hours
before and flights on Southwest can be changed at no fee. Then I saw
they were also playing the Canyon the night before. I mentioned it and
they said they would put me on the guest list.


A few hours before the gig, I'm looking up where it is do I can get an
Uber (I didn't rent car). I was checking the venue website and I didn't
see the band listed. After a bit of a search I found them, not at The
Canton Montclair, but The Canyon Agoura Hills, 68 miles away!

We decide we'll hire a car, but the only place open was at the airport.
I booked, got another Uber back to the airport and at the rental desk
was told they had no cars available even though I had a booking. Went
to another counter, $126+taxes for 24 hours.

Anyway, got the car and drove the 69 miles which obviously takes a bit
longer in California. The parking lot was overflowing. Circled round a
few times and eventually crawled behind some people heading to their
car and got the spot. Headed into the venue and barely got a beer
before the show started.

Got to meet Dave after the show. Great guy, down to earth. Was a fun night...except having to drive back after the show. Since we had the
car, decided to go up into the mountains next day before returning it.
We a good long weekend trip.
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