I was deemed a “young fan” for recognising one of the 90s singles at a Human League a couple of years back.I'll be PISSED OFF if the average age is YOUNGER than me. One of the things I like MOST about going to 80s act concerts is feeling relatively young
Even for SEB I was average age - admittedly her Kitchen Disco shenanigans may skew her demographic, but I'd be really surprised if Kim drew an audience younger than hers here.
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Well it shouldn't be too hard to emulate that kind of song, it's great but it's pretty simple compared to something spiritual, evocative, thrilling and individual like 'House Of Salome', 'Child Come Away', 'Victim', 'The Thrill Of It' and so on. Considering how brilliant the utterly surprising "Here Come The Aliens" was, which did the incredibly unexpected thing of topping "Close" and matching runner-up career bests "Another Step" and her "Non-album singles and 80s B-sides stockpile". "Select", "Catch As Catch Can" and "Teases & Dares" will never be topped-and they certainly don't need to be, the fact the best female act ever will still make a record now and then is just what we all want and need.
You have said that brilliantly, and it is "so, right", they ARE the duo of the 80s and of all time, not Eurythmics or short-lived Yazoo, or even my next fave, OMD, or Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, Dollar or any other 2 act. Most of them are good (or were at some point) but Kim and Rick, Rick and Kim, they're just it aren't they, and for someone so young, Rick's adept and very sensational grasp of creation, utilisation, production, vision and multi-instrumentalist skill, to say nothing of their excellent strike-rate and perfectly balanced mix of quality and quantity. 6 albums throughout the 80s, all of them as different from each other as possible, yet all on the line in the brilliant department, and that goes for all the 80s non-album singles and B-sides too, material that was enough for 2 more albums in that decade.
I wouldn't say perfectly--there was predictably not a single song from her horribly and criminally underrated and utterly misunderstood "Catch As Catch Can" album, an album she and Ricky mystifyingly disregard with the largest amount of disfavour. There was no 'Child Come Away', an important staple of most compilations, and probably why they wouldn't do it. The great thing about the GH tour, though, was the chance to revisit the much ignored 90s part of her career, songs she hasn't song forever, even an obvious huge hit like 'Love Is Holy'. And 'Perfect Girl' too, always left off setlists because she did no UK releases for over a decade, and 'Can't Get Enough (Of Your Love)' was yet another massive oversight in most past concerts, too right.
Yes, it is. She has a solo album coming out later this year. Loved one of the previous singles from it, ‘One Last Drag’.
