Regeneration Tour!

[trafaelwyr]

Ok...now THIS really, really, really has me excited! Anyone here over 42 (give or take a year) should really try to see this if this comes to their town. It's the Regeneration Tour. Why am I excited? Because Tom Bailey of the Thompson Twins will be performing songs of the Thompson Twins for the first time since 1987!! Here's the news from Facebook:

People said it would never happen, it took me 5 years (with a great helping hand from our friend Howard Jones this past fall) to finally convince Tom Bailey to tour again but folks it is definitely going to happen, the one artist from the 80's that I worked with as an agent back then that I was most eager to get back on tour is going to make a lot of people, myself included, very, very happy this summer! Tom will be co-headlining with Howard Jones and opening will be three back-to-back-to-back mini "best of the 80's" sets from Ultravox's Midge Ure, China Crisis and one more great act still being confirmed. Tour dates are now being worked on, starting Aug 19th thru September 13 in North America. More news soon!

Here is the press release from Tom Bailey: Thompson Twins’ TOM BAILEY to play Thompson Twins hits live for the first time in 27 years Howard Jones, Ultravox's Midge Ure, China Crisis and one more act to join Tom on his first tour since 1987! The long wait will soon be over! For nearly three decades fans of the Thompson Twins have been waiting for more live performances from one of the most iconic bands of the eighties. Now Tom Bailey, with a new band, will be touring and performing most of the big Thompson Twins hits in 2014. The first performance will be headlining the UK’s Henley Rewind festival on Sunday 17 August 2014. This will then be followed by an extensive tour of USA in August and September with Howard Jones, Midge Ure and China Crisis and one more act yet to be named.

The Thompson Twins had huge hits on both sides of the Atlantic. Songs such as ‘Hold Me Now’, ‘Doctor Doctor’, ‘You Take Me Up’ and ‘Love On Your Side’ provided the soundtrack for so many people’s lives worldwide in the mid-eighties. In 1985 The Thompson Twins played ‘Hold Me Now’ at Live Aid in Philadelphia and also performed the Beatles ‘Revolution’ with Madonna. Says Tom: “This will be the first time I’ve sung the TT’s hits in decades. It’s taken a long time, but now I’m really looking forward to playing those songs to some of the fans that were there first time around.”

Formed in 1977, the original Thompson Twins trimmed down their line-up in 1982 to a three piece of Bailey, Alannah Currie and Joe Leeway as they adopted a more electronic synthesizer based sonic line-up. Tom Bailey was the singer, multi-instrumentalist, producer and, along with lyricist Alannah Currie, composed and arranged the Thompson Twins music. The Thompson Twins also enjoyed big success on the US dance chart with ‘Lies”, ‘In the Name of Love’ and ‘Hold Me Now’ all reaching the No 1. In 1988 they had another No 1 dance chart hit in the US with ‘In the Name of Love 88”. The last Thompson Twins show was in Texas in August 1987 and the band finally broke up in 1993. Since then Bailey has worked in many different areas of music, from the experimental electronic Babble and Kolab to the Indo-fusion of the Holiwater Band, the visual astronomy project BSP and the sound-system dub of International Observer. The music and videos of the Thompson Twins became a fixture on hit radio and music television throughout the eighties. Tom Bailey will at last be bringing those songs which meant so much to so many, back live in 2014.