For the record no, it is not lost on me that my show about UK music opens with artists from Ireland and Germany.
David Medsker
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David Medsker used to be "with it." But then they changed what "it" was. Now what he's "with" isn't "it," and what's "it" seems weird and scary to him. He is available for children's parties.
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In which I play a bunch of Brit Pop, and then alienate nearly every fan of Brit Pop.
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It’s possible that he likes the System more than we do, which is saying something.
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In which we say farewell to summer – and title-themed shows, for now – with a title-themed show about summer.
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New World Man takes his New Girl Now, dolled up in a New Dress, for a ride in a Brand New Cadillac.
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Basically, it’s First Wave, Lithium, and Alt Nation in a blender, at a ratio of about 4:2:1.
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“Great song, Bob, but it suggests that you might be gay. Better change the words.” Jesus.
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Tears for Fears fans know where the next show is going.
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We have a new favorite phrase, and it is virtuous spiral.’
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“Touring with Katy Perry was a great opportunity to try to enter the US scene, but that would also mean that we had to spend two more years promoting the album that we had already spent three years promoting.”
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Danish band makes their long, long overdue American debut.
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If the first show was a Hormone Monster, this one’s the Depression Kitty.
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The idea came, as a lot of my ideas do, from a Duran Duran song. Do I have enough songs to do a full show about dreams? As I quickly…
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I thought there would be tons of songs about princesses. I had maybe four.
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There are a number of reasons why someone might wait years or even decades to tell a traumatic story, and they have absolutely nothing to do with you.
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Tell me you love me. Change. Go. Disturb this groove. Or, you know, do the opposite of all those things. Your call. It’s cool.
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Proof that there is always something good that can come from even the worst of things.
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There is an alternate universe version of this show with Spinal Tap and Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots. Be thankful that we don’t live in that world.
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Man, why are all of these songs with “blue” in the title so melancholy? Oh, right.
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Many of Bailey’s 80s-era peers have been trying to write songs this good as far back as 1984, and here he is, 34 years later, besting them at the top of their game. They must be furious.
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Followed a song by Bowie with a song about Bowie. I am not deep.
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I have an all-female band. And my big joke is that every time we hit a town, if it was guys, they’d be saying, ”Where’s the guitar shop?” With the girls, they all say, ”Where’s the Whole Foods store?”
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In which I execute a pivot so sharp that only John Cleese can effectively prepare the audience for what’s about to happen. And so he does. And a new Dizzy Heights tradition is born.