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
Philip Oakey Adrian Wright Susanne Sulley
Joanne Catherall Jo Callis Ian Burden Jim Russell
The 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.
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
