Bill meets up with band mates Astrid, Greg and Jim in Detroit for the first show of the tour. They lose the keyboard. Can’t remember the names of other band members. The Romantics rock Detroit. They get charged for 2 nights of hotel rooms instead of one. They find a very cool podcast room at The Foundation Hotel in Detroit.
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The Genius Insanity Tour
Genius Insanity Tour 1 – Intro
Animotion hits the road with A Flock of Seagulls, Wang Chung, The Romantics, The Motels, Naked Eyes, Missing Persons, Dramarama, Nu Shooz and Farrington and Mann of When in Rome UK on an epic 24 city tour from July 28th to September 30th, 2018. The genius part is getting all the bands together. The insanity part is what happens when all the bands get together. Day by day, blow by blow, here we go. This is episode one.
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Animotion going forward!
Animotion exploded into the hearts and Sony Walkmans of the world’s population in 1985 with their global smash hit debut, “Obsession”, which reached number five in the UK, six in the US and similarly high positions elsewhere. The song continues to live on, being heavily synced within hit TV shows such as “Nip/Tuck”, “Weeds”, “30 Rock”, “WWF Saturday Night’s Main Event”, movies such as “Hot Tub Time Machine”, “Adventureland” and “Dallas Buyers Club”
The band’s eponymous debut album spawned a second hit, “Let Him Go”, which the band have revisited on “Raise Your Expectations”. Meanwhile, the second Animotion album, “Strange Behavior”, was released in 1986 and included yet another hit, “I Engineer”. At the end of that album cycle, the band broke up and a third album, also called “Animotion”, was released in 1989 with Don Kirkpatrick and Greg Smith as the only remaining members (although it did not break the band’s hit-making run, as it generated yet another US top ten single, “Room To Move”). “Raise Your Expectations” brings the Animotion story bang up to date!