my favorite new wave / power pop concerts were & where.......
the romantics at brassy's nite club in cocoa beach florida in 1980. (the romantics were playin all the clubs not arenas on this tour on the release of their 2nd album, "national breakout". at this time you have to remember that,"what i like about you" off their debut album "the romantics" 1979,hadn't really taken off nationally like the song did years later,and so the romantics were still known as a regional detroit band)
psychedelic furs with our daughters wedding at brassy's nite club cocoa beach florida 1982.
(i actually went to see our daughters wedding who were promoting the "moving windows" album and they opened for the furs and i think were much better than the furs)
starbuck at walt disney world orlando florida 1977 and the anchor club in cocoa beach florida 1979.
(starbuck were huge in 1976/77 with the song,"moonlight feels right" which still gets airplay to this day.starbuck were also one of the first,if not first band to use keyboards/synths just like depeche mode or human league would 10 years later as the main instrument.in fact starbuck was a 6 piece band with 3 of the members playin/usin keyboards & synths as the main instruments.in later interviews by numerous synth pop bands of the new wave era would cite starbuck as an influence for their music etc....)
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