Hey Downing Are You Going To This?

[Amazing Larry]

I expect you to have backstage passes and I want a full shenanigans write up afterward.

 

http://pacamp.com/pa/schedules/2015/spandau_ballet.asp

 

[TobiasFunke]

This is what I would classify as "wheeze bag music"

[Lou]

there

it's gonna rock

[JAHV76]

This much is true

[Angel Dog and Beer]

It's funny, I've never heard of Spandau Ballet until Downing started taking about them, although I know most of their more popular songs.  Now I hear about the group all the time, or I guess, occasionally. 

[Hollyw00d]

DR already made plans to see this guy

http://gawker.com/5939404/sen-lindsey-graham-not-enough-angry-white-guys-to-sustain-gop

[DowningRules]

I already sawr them at the Wiltern in late-January.  They were great.  Well rehearsed and very polished.  I wouldn't expect everyone to like them.  Back in the '80s, no one really took the musical abilities of groups like this seriously.  However, they more then proved themselves on stage. 

 

They're one of those bands where they play one song, and you know it.  Then another and you know that one too...and so on.  Damn good band.

[Tank]

"Great Expectations" is the eighth episode of the ABC series Modern Family. It premiered on ABC in theUnited States on November 18, 2009. The episode was written by Joe Lawson and directed by Jason Winer.^[1]

 

 

Plot[edit]

 

Claire (Julie Bowen) has a history of giving bad gifts while Phil (Ty Burrell) has a history of giving her great gifts she really appreciates. So, in an attempt to make up for it, she decides to give Phil a surprising anniversary present, which is a private performance by Izzy LaFontaine (Edward Norton), the fictional bass player of Spandau Ballet. However, this unexpected gift turns out to be a mistake, as Phil was neither a fan of Spandau Ballet nor their song "True", which Claire believed to be Claire & Phil's special song. According to Phil, the couple's "song" was "If You Leave" by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.

 

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i can't find a video clip of this, but this should help. it was a clever idea for the show.

[Angel Oracle]

Saw Joan Jett in 2013 and the GoGos in 2014 at the OC Fair, plus Earth, Wind, and Fire in 2014 at the LA Fair.

Who to see in 2015?

DR is the king of 80s music knowledge. Any other is just an imitator.

Edited March 6, 2015 by Angel Oracle

[ELEVEN]

"Great Expectations" is the eighth episode of the ABC series Modern Family. It premiered on ABC in theUnited States on November 18, 2009. The episode was written by Joe Lawson and directed by Jason Winer.^[1]

Plot[edit]

Claire (Julie Bowen) has a history of giving bad gifts while Phil (Ty Burrell) has a history of giving her great gifts she really appreciates. So, in an attempt to make up for it, she decides to give Phil a surprising anniversary present, which is a private performance by Izzy LaFontaine (Edward Norton), the fictional bass player of Spandau Ballet. However, this unexpected gift turns out to be a mistake, as Phil was neither a fan of Spandau Ballet nor their song "True", which Claire believed to be Claire & Phil's special song. According to Phil, the couple's "song" was "If You Leave" by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.

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i can't find a video clip of this, but this should help. it was a clever idea for the show.

No it wasn't.