Attending One Takes Fans Back
to a Wondrous Time Then Leaves Us Rotting Like Tomatoes in Our Reality
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| Spandau Ballet - Photo by Andrew Hurley via Flickr |
I recently saw Spandau Ballet in concert at the
Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles. Having seen them twice in the ‘80s, I went with
the expectation of being transported back to a time when I swore I had the
world by the balls. What I left with was a nightmarish image of my aged contemporaries
and paranoid thoughts of erectile dysfunction.
Instead of the traditional opening act (maybe an ‘80s
one-hit wonder like Kajagoogoo or Dexys Midnight Runners), the promoters
decided to have a washed-up radio DJ from the ‘80s come out onstage and ask
trivia questions (I, too, am a washed-up radio DJ from the ‘80s, so I get a
pass here.).
