(EP 16, no.10) Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) with Mettle: Electricity, Centennial Hall, London, Ontario, Canada, Tuesday March 9, 1982
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Electropop comes to London, Ontario on a freezing March evening with Liverpool\\u2019s Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, or as they are more simply known, OMD.
Their set may have been egregiously delayed amid a brutal Ontario winter storm, but OMD more than made up for it, playing a blazing show to a small but dedicated audience who danced right through the whole thing.\\xa0 London\\u2019s own Mettle, featuring former Demics guitarist Rob Brent, also delivered a terrific opening performance.
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My special guest, \\u201cSpecial Guests\\u201d now in Leeds, UK, will return once again with his memories of the show.
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Stay tuned for OMD restaurant waving, happy hoofers, and frozen winklepickers. \\xa0
Read the original 2010 blog entry here. \\xa0
NEXT PODCAST:\\xa0 It was Friday the 13th\\u2014in more ways than one.\\xa0
Dear Listeners: Welcome to THE WORST CONCERT EXPERIENCE OF MY ENTIRE LIFE!
One poster for the show read \\u201c\\u2026make this your lucky night.\\u201d Yeah, right.\\xa0
While Police Picnic \\u201981 was a fairly sober and orderly experience for me and my compadres, the \\u201982 edition felt like a sadistic joke that wouldn\\u2019t stop.\\xa0 It was a day of being trolled by the concert gods.
The Talking Heads once again completely blew me away and The Police were radically improved from the \\u201981 edition, but even those silver linings couldn\\u2019t make the metaphoric dark clouds pass.\\xa0 Even the day\\u2019s one miraculous positive came with a big negative.
It was also my first of many visits to the now long gone CNE Stadium: the 60,000-capcity-for-concerts mega-venue in the heart of Toronto. (I made many visits there between 1982 and 1989, and shows by The Clash, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, and The Rolling Stones are all coming up in this series.)
Join me in this delightful descent into festival misery and stay tuned for bad drugs, bad sound, obnoxious neighbours, pointless preparations, naive assumptions, swollen bladders, and a nightmare bus ride.\\xa0
(EP 17, no.11) Police Picnic \\u201982 with The Police, Talking Heads, The (English) Beat, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, A Flock of Seagulls, & The Spoons: What A Day That Was, CNE Stadium, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Friday August 13, 1982\\xa0
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