Unfortuately I have no excuses. Well, saying that there might be a tiny excuse as my first girlfriend was into Asia. For a spotty faced teenager, even dumbing down to this extent could be entertained for the promise of some late night fumblings. And dumbing down is surely the end result of listening to this kind of twaddle. Fortunately, the album released in 1982 left my ownership many, many years ago but the emotional scarring is still there.
Just to remind those too young or too disinterested, Asia were yet another supergroup. The principal players were Steve Howe and Greg Downes who both came from Yes, John Wetton from King Crimson, and Carl Palmer from of course - Emerson, Lake and Palmer. And they were shit. And they still are shit judging from the information I found out indicating that they are reformed and touring. In fact, just to prove that there is synergy in this world I found out here that the support group on their US tour are none other than The Alan Parsons Project! Now that is scary.
Just so all you disgruntled fans can't complain too much, I have a full list of UK dates . But for the sane ones amongst us pick the one closest to you and make sure you're out of town. Treat yourself, you know you deserve it.
December 1st - Falmouth Pavilion December 2nd - Bournemouth BIC Pavilion December 4th - Liverpool Academy December 5th - Perth Concert Halls (Scotland) December 6th - Glasgow Academy (Scotland) December 7th - Ebbw Vale Leisure Centre (Wales)December 8th - Frome Cheese & Grain December 10th - Newcastle Academy December 11th - Nottingham Rock City December 12th - Oxford Zodiac Club (Academy) December 13th - Manchester Academy December 14th - Wolverhampton Civic December 16th - London Shepherds Bush
If you really fancy it here is their most famous song:
Asia - Heat of the Moment (mp3)which you can buy right here
And for everybody else some alternatives from 1982:
Kate Bush - There Goes A Tenner (mp3) Buy
ABC - Poison Arrow (mp3) Buy
Heaven 17 - Let Me Go (mp3) Buy
Human League - Being Boiled (mp3) Buy
8 comments:
Asia - really just a festival of wrong.
Mind you, some of those songs are ace - ABC in particular is a Mother Toad favourite.
Asia - pleeaase!!
I remember this from South Park, with Eric Cartman singing it to rally people to support his stem cell project (with totally selfish motives, as usual). Your site is superb, visit mine (http://www.festivefifty.blogspot.com), I've linked you.
P.S. You and I are both teachers of the same age. Nice to meet you.
i'm still trying to get to grios with a post that can combine the extreme noise terror of asia with two of my favouritte singles ever (being boiled and poison arrow)
if there's anything i can do to help...
thats grips by the way - get to grips
x
Ah yes, 'Still Trying To Get To Grios' - Dionne Warwick's little known follow up to 'Do You Know The Way To San Jose'.
Where are you Tutu Vicar? You bin gone long time and we misses ya.
Be back soon everybody - promise!
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