Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith doing their thing.
Last week I finally saw the band behind my favorite records of 1985 and 1993. Currently they’re touring with Hall & Oates but as Roland said, every now and then, they get let out to play a headlining show in a proper venue (yeah, I hate stadium shows).
It was a good mix of their work from five of their six albums yet they only did “Break It Down Again” from Elemental. There were several songs from the reunification album Everybody Loves a Happy Ending from 2004. I do hope they have new stuff on the horizon. Curt is a better bass player than I expected too. In videos you usually saw him just singing.
Roland jamming. We were really close, like third-fourth row on the floor in a general admission setting.
My only immediate complaint was them opening with Lorde’s horrendous cover of “Everybody Wants To Rule The World” from The Hunger Games. I’m sure they were thrilled, thanks to the ASCAP money and it probably led to a rediscovery of their work. Along with the mopey take on “Mad World” for a video game commercial, Tears For Fears are one of the few bands whose work is best left to them, not others, for now.
Opening for them was their back-up singer, a lady named Carina Round who I’m hunting down at Waterloo. She’s a solo performer and a member of Puscifer and the Early Winters.
I’m so stoked I checked another band I loved off my list. Listening to them live brought me back to 1985, sitting around my room (actually the whole basement then), plodding through my senior year of high school. Their stuff wasn’t necessarily happy music but it catered to the teen angst I felt.
Special thanks to my friend Ayako for providing the good photos. I was just too into the music to bother.
Thanks for the photos!