If there any fans out there I can highly recommend the concert but the UK leg is ending soon so be quick for London tonight or Cambridge tomorrow, the warm act is one member of Prefab Sprout, the bass guitarist for Tom Bailey is Nick Beggs from Kajagoogoo.
The 1980’s were on the threshold between the computerised alien type junk of monotonous bass and weird sounding cymbal noise, at whatever varying tempos, that forms or backs virtually everything which characterises the 21st century v the melodious and creative sounds of the 1970’s.
Thompson Twins, Tears for Fears, Level 42, Mister Mister, Pet Shop Boys, Talk Talk among a few others, are among those memorables that at least made the 1980’s bearable for those of us with ears tuned by and to the 1970’s.
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I prefer the sound of the synthesizer such as OMD, New Order, Simple Minds and so on.
Thompson Twins were very much of their time.
I like most types of music, cos I aint a ‘music snob’, but I maybe wouldn’t go and see the Thompson Twins, best left in the 80s I reckon, but each to their own…
I think as soon as you mentioned that prat with the hair ringlets, and Kaja effin googoo, it sealed the deal…(although he’s maybe even bald now, like me my 80s mullet/pony tail has long gone. 
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Can’t beat a bit of Big Country who are still going strong as ever selling out at gigs in the UK and around the world but sadly without Stuart Adamson who went AWOL for a long time and hung himself with a light cord in a hotel room in Hawaii.
Are you mistaking Nick Beggs for Christopher Hamil the lead singer from GooGoo?
That’s the bloke, for a superstar DJ, is that Thin Boy Slim, aka Norman Quentin Cook?
Simple Minds and OMD are memorable for their drum lines like in Don’t You Forget About Me and Maid of New Orleans.
I was a drummer for many years, and I promise you OMD never ever figured on my playlist: a man trying to emulate a Roland 505… ffs 
I met Big Country at a record signing, Stuart Adamson was very disappointing, unable to answer even the most basic questions about some of the band’s odd lyrics. I only wanted to meet Mark Brzezicki, but he hadn’t turned up.
Mark Lamaar on Never mind the Buzzcocks…
quote: ‘‘Ahh yes, Stuart Adamson,
He was a Big Count(pause)ry member’’.
Living in Oz for the last 50 years, we don’t hear anything about bands like Big Country. I like their music but confess to not knowing their names. It’s still pretty sad that one’s dead. I wonder why he did it.
Are you sure you’re not confusing this with something else Zac.That sounds like it was created by a human to be played by a human for human ears to me.
Admittedly it ain’t Larry Mullen Jr’s effort on Rattle and Hum or even Bay City Rollers Bye Bye Baby but not a half bad effort better than a Roland ?.
While some say that Cozy Powell’s Dance with the Devil is more than one take mixed on a machine.Who knows but sounded ok to me.
I wouldn’t have given that a second listen.
This is more like what I was listening to drum-wise in the 1980’s
