DARE TOUR 1981:
You're My Baby; Open Your Heart;
Do Or Die; Circus of Death; Darkness; Don't You Want Me; Seconds; I
Am The Law; A Crow and a Baby; Blind Youth; Marianne; Love Action;
The Things That Dreams Are Made Of; Empire State Human; Sound of The
Crowd; Destination Venus
band line up
The Human League
Philip Oakey (vocs) Adrian Wright
(keys/slides) Susanne Sulley (vocs)
Joanne Catherall (vocs) Jo Callis (keys) Ian Burden (keys) Jim Russell
(keys)
Huang Chung
Jeremy Ryder Nick Feldman Darren
Costin Dave Burnand
gig poster and flyer (click to
enlarge flyer)
ticket
memories
Webmaster,
north Bucks
I remember seeing people I knew dressed up in New Romantic gear
and make up and them looking at me as if their secret had been rumbled. I
never followed fashion (apart from the band…ha ha) and on seeing them was
glad I didn’t. I couldn’t see myself in make up and a kilt. As for the
League, well, this was THE day that Don’t You Want Me made number one. Not
that you would have known it as they made no fuss on stage. It was a
strange gig to me as the songs didn’t sound right, but then in fairness
them doing this stuff live was a dare in itself. There was a nine screen
background controlled by Adrian Wright. In tribute to Jo Callis’
background as an ex-Rezillo, they did Destination Venus at the end
What could and should
have been a great party experience seemed a little damp to me, but
my memory could be playing tricks
press cuttings
what
happened next
The Human League
went massive with the Dare album. Problems with the follow up album saw some of
the gloss taken off because of the delay in new songs. However they have
remained in vogue and still play big venues with new albums as at 2012.
Huang Chung
became Wang Chung who had a big hit with Dance Hall Days in 1984
odds and trivia
This was the very day (pop charts
were on Tuesdays then) that Don't You Want Me got to No 1 in the UK
singles chart. This was the only occasion that an artiste played
Friars whilst at Number 1 in the UK singles chart
Destination Venus was in the set to reference Jo Callis' background in The
Rezillos and you're MY baby was a reference to ian burden's background
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