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Totally Tubular Festival, July 17
The ’80s were a very long time ago, and yet, pop culture’s greatest decade remains timeless. The music lives on forever as well, as those who made their mark are still out on the road showing off songs that are often older than the crowds that came to hear them. The latest MTV-flavored retro dance party package tour to make the rounds in 2024 is the Totally Tubular Festival, which crashes a new wave down at MGM Music Hall at Fenway on July 17.
The tour features Thomas Dolby (”She Blinded Me With Science”), Tom Bailey of Thompson Twins (”Hold Me Now”), the pictured and embedded Modern English (”I Melt With You”), Men Without Hats (”The Safety Dance”), The Romantics (”What I Like About You”), Bow Wow Wow (”I Want Candy”), Tommy Tutone (“867-5309/Jenny”), and The Plimsouls (”A Million Miles Away”). That’s one hit parade!
“This is a dream lineup for those who love the music of the early 1980s, and for those who want to relive the days…” says Jon Pleeter, of Totally Tubular Festival. “You wore dayglow, you wore parachute pants, you had big hair, perms and more perms, mullets, leg warmers, along with tons of buttons and lots of rubber bracelets. You wore sunglasses at night. The choruses were big, and the hooks were bigger — the party didn’t end.”
Tickets go on sale Friday (January 12) at 10 a.m. local time.
