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Spring Break Button Factory Temple Bar Patrick’s Day 2012
Hey Spring Break fans,
Ed Koch here – the guys have assured me they hope this electronic mail finds you in good health.
Being the head of the executive branch of NYC’s government can be a steep learning curve. Ignoring the growing AIDS epidemic, accusing Jesse Jackson of being an anti-Semite, alienating small town voters, supporting the death penalty and stymieing civil liberty legislation were all mistakes made on my watch. But if there’s one thing I really learned as a three term Mayor of New York, it was how to throw a parade. Much like the ‘half moon’ parties during Carnival on the tropical island of Aruba I like to attend to this day, a NYC St Patrick’s Day Parade requires singing, dancing and half-baked mysticism. Begosh and begorrah, I found myself thinking back in the Fall of ’81, who in entertainment is so full of blarney they can provide all three whilst e
qually satisfying the demands of camp artistic directors and workaday NYC administrators?
They say St Patrick drove all the snakes out of Ireland; my decision to make Jan Van Couver the Grand Marshall of the 1982 St Patrick’s Day Parade drove the liberal elite to the edge of reason. Most commentators were put off by Van Couver’s plans to launch his debut solo single on the day but many more were outraged by his attempts to include Halliburton, Lockheed Corporation, DynCorp and ConocoPhillips floats in the parade. But these agenda-setters had underestimated the Spring Break front man, a man of paradoxes: big business and civic pride; red, white & blue patriotism and offshore business accounts; hot air and Celtic mist. When it comes to Jan Van Couver, anything can go together, even the leader of the world’s foremost super group himself and large scale municipal planning under tight budgetary constraints. March 17th arrived and saw the most excessive cavalcade of corporate largesse and crackpot folklore this great nation has still ever seen.
Now, 30 years later, Van Couver will head the Dublin parade, which will lead to the doors of The Button Factory and a Spring Break concert of unmitigated Irish-American jingoism. Tickets for this show are €25 and go on sale at 10am, Friday, February 10th, online at www.tickets.ie and in Sound Cellar of Nassau St.
Hope to see you at the show and that the road rises to meet you at the top of the morning.
Ed & Spring Break.
Christmas Show Button Factory Temple Bar 23rd of December
Tickets for this year’s Christmas show have sold out. Thank you everyone who bought tickets. If you missed out and want to be the first to know of future shows please email us with “join” in the subject line and we’ll add you to our mailing list.
Hey Spring Break fans,
Kim Cattrall here – the guys have asked me to take some time out of my sex-filled schedule to blow news of their Christmas show in your ear.
Throughout the entirety of my professional life, from the moment I first met them at one of Jack Klugman’s pool parties to only last week when Jan Van Couver accompanied me to the launch of my new book – Sexcapades – Spring Break have been a source of near-constant emotional support and occasional physical comfort. And when required, the world’s premier super group have always been on hand to help me get inside the heads of the many badly sketched, one-dimensional characters that have defined my career.
Upon hearing I had won the role of Joanne Nicholls in Columbo, Jim Break taught me the directional secret of Peter Falk’s gaze. Before I stepped on the set of Big Trouble In Little China it was Kendrick Berrera who warned me that women get lost not in Kurt Russell’s eyes but in his hair. And only a couple of years ago Hilton Burbank assuaged any fears I had about Sex & the City 2 by telling me that every once in a while we all pocket an enormous cheque to take part in a disgusting vanity project devoid of even the slightest pretence of artistic merit or integrity.
The role I’m most proudly remembered for, however, is that of Emmy in the motion picture event, Mannequin. As an actress with such a wide and energetic range I was naturally worried about playing an inanimate object brought to life. Enter Spring Break, stage left. The guys turned their contacts book upside down and before I knew it I was sitting in William Shatner’s house with Bill himself, Roger Moore, Brigitte Nielsen, Judge Reinhold, Pierce Brosnan and a young Helen Hunt. Within hours I was imbued with not necessarily a sense that less is more but rather that scarcely anything at all is far too much. I was ready to just about act like I’d never barely acted before. It would turn out to be the non-performance of a lifetime – one that I will forever be indebted to the guys for enabling.
This Christmas I’ll be stopping by the Brown Thomas window to recreate the iconic poster for the movie with one of the men who set me on the path to discovering the wooden, one-trick routine that would come to exemplify the rest of my career: Jan Van Couver.
After that I’ll be going to see the man himself perform with Spring Break in The Button Factory on December 23rd. Tickets for this show are €26.50 and go on sale at 10am, Friday, October 21st, online at www.tickets.ie and in Sound Cellar of Nassau St. Doors open at 7.30pm, late club with Spring Break DJs til 3am.
I hope to see you at the show – you’d be a dummy to miss it!
Kim & Spring Break.
Tripod May the 21st 2011
Hey Spring Break fans,
The Most Reverend Rowan Williams here, spreading all the latest good news from the world of Spring Break. Please be seated.
It was late in to the night at the wedding reception of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer when I first discovered that women of the cloth, a chalice of good wine and the music of Kenny Loggins are just three of the passions I share with my good friends in Spring Break. A little over thirty years have passed since that unholiest of nights, but now, finally, I can look forward to engaging in another platonic one-night stand with the world’s premier, good-time 80s super group.
Being asked to preside over a royal wedding is the greatest honour that can be bestowed upon any cleric. Back in 1981 I was merely an assistant to my predecessor before last, the Most Reverend Robert Runcie. But now, at the wedding of Prince William of Wales and Kate Middleton this April, yours truly is finally moving centre stage. It’s a big gig, though nothing compared to the burden Spring Break faced three decades ago.
Back then nobody knew what the future held for Spring Break, apart, of course, from Penny Thornton, Diana’s astrologer and confidante. It was the shrewd clairvoyant who peered in to her crystal ball and foresaw Spring Break providing imperial entertainment on her friend’s big day. Upon meeting Jan Van Couver the future Princess was immediately taken by his wit, charm and frank thoughts on age-harmonics and decided to harness the matrimonial expertise of the singer and his band mates. Jim Break would put his encyclopedic knowledge of precious stones to good work by picking the rings. Kenny Berrera would lubricate Prince Andrew’s best man’s speech. And Hilton Burbank would donate his horses, Porcaro and Lukather, to pull the ceremonial carriage to St Paul’s Cathedral.
But the jewel in the nuptial crown was Spring Break doing what they do best. That evening the band played one of their most majestic sets, dedicating Maneater, Easy Lover, (She’s A) Maniac, Material Girl and many others to the blushing bride. It was as happy as the People’s Princess would ever be as she battled through the minefield of public life. A public life lived like a candle in the wind.
On May 21st, Spring Break will be stopping by Dublin’s Tripod on their way back from Buckingham Palace to give a performance fit for a king. Tickets for this show are €26.50 and go on sale at 10am, Thursday, March 24th, online at www.tickets.ie and in Sound Cellar of Nassau St.
Hope to see you at the show – I’m going to move heaven and earth to be there. I pray to God you will too.
This email has ended, go in peace.
Rowan & Spring Break.
Vicar Street 2010
Tickets for this event have sold out. Thank you to everyone who bought tickets. Looking forward to seeing you all on the 23rd! We’re planning our next Dublin show for May 2011 so join our mailing list if you want to find out about tickets first.
Hi Spring Break fans.
Sonny Prizewater here, serving up all the latest revelations
from your favourite 80s super group. The guys assure me this one’s on the house.
from your favourite 80s super group. The guys assure me this one’s on the house.Throughout my years as a refreshment guru to the stars of the stage, screen and Reagan administration, I’ve invented numerous cocktails inspired by the events of my private life: The Easter Sunday Ding Dong, The Steamboat Stampede and The Texas Long Horn Squeeze, to name but three. Some people say that last one added six months to the marriage of Hollywood mega-stars Burt Reynolds and Loni Anderson, though I’m not so sure. But what I do know – much like Burt does now – is that making a relationship work is much like creating an alcoholic pick-me-up: you gotta experiment with your blend, allow each part to speak its mind and then give it time to bathe in its own rhythm. But first, you must pick the right ingredients.
At face value, what comprises the popular performing group Spring Break appears obvious: a thick slice of drums and bass, a generous handful of guitar sorcery, two drops of synthesizer subterfuge and a liberal sprinkling of vocal kinesis. But in reality, there’s much more to it than that. Peer inside this band’s red, white and blue melting pot and you’ll soon be drawing in an intoxicating ideological fusion. Here, the effects of boycotting the Oscars because of its liberal agenda mixes with a belief in wide-scale privatisation of the public sector. Added to this is a penchant for corporate tax relief, market self-regulation and commercial synergies with private military contractors. All of these components are now stirred in with a willing devotion to perform and entertain, be it on their own tours or the PR drives of their benefactors and companions in the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency sector of the World Bank. When fully integrated, this entire potpourri is then used as a base to support music that always turns a profit, both financially and emotionally.
My friends and business partners in Spring Break will be bringing their unique mixture of spiritual artistry and hard line pragmatism to the stage in Vicar St this December 23rd. Tickets to the show are €24 plus booking fee and go on sale this Wednesday the 6th of October online at www.tickets.ie and in Sound Cellar of Nassau St.
Be sure to come along – I wouldn’t miss it for all the Long Horn Squeezes in Texas.
Sonny & Spring Break.
Every night is Saturday Night when you’re in Spring Break
Here are our opening credits from Saturday Night Live, all our videos are now up and running in our gallery…
Spring Break play Infernos in Clapham May 30th
Spring Break return to Infernos on Clapham High Street, London, on Sunday the 30th of May. Tickets can be purchased below using Paypal. A Paypal account is not required, all you need is a credit or debit card. Tickets will not be posted out to you. Your name and tickets purchased will be added to the guest list and you will be given wristbands on the door on the night. Doors open at 8pm and band onstage at 9pm sharp.
Tripod 22nd May 2010
Hey Spring Break fans,
John Madden here, tackling all the latest issues in the world of Spring Break. Take a knee.
Polo, fencing, offshore yacht racing: when it comes to sport, Spring Break have long enjoyed engaging in the highborn leisure pursuits that most accurately reflect the cultured refinement of their musical performances. It’s fair to say the guys are to those civilised divertissements what Dom DeLuise was to unbridled excess at a chili cook off, but the world’s leading super group didn’t get to where they are today without occasionally taking the road less exclusively travelled by. One such thoroughfare led to Giants Stadium, New York in the summer of 1982 and a sport defined by its worldwide appeal, much like Spring Break.
In a time characterised by passing fads, soccer – an
unglamourous field sport apparently popular with men the world over – seemed like another fleeting craze, merely following in the footsteps left by the cross-trainers of lapsed joggers, viagra instructors and jazzercisers. But I was soon to discover – much like Tom Selleck did with Indiana Jones – one man’s trash is another man’s treasure: where one man sees a sport that, on the surface, appears to be a dreary free for all, another sees the opportunity to score lucrative corporate tie-ins with a global reach.
Jan Van Couver was determined to integrate his band in to the fabric of the self-styled ‘beautiful game’ to avail of the commercial opportunities that seemed to be presenting themselves like open goals. It was clear that the best way of achieving this was to spearhead a campaign that would secure for the US the position of host country for the World Soccer Cup. A hat trick of offers were tabled: a meet and greet for FIFA delegates with long-time Spring Break confidante Loni Anderson, signed photos from the cast of The Scarecrow & Mrs. King and a scat-funk symphony written with Al Jarreau that would be performed as the centrepiece to the opening ceremony of the thirteenth World Soccer Cup, in Mexico City on May 31st, 1986.
The presentation of this celebrity-heavy triumvirate of delights was enough to wow the powers that be at FIFA for a length of time that enabled Kenny Berrera to tamper with the ballot boxes and ensure the 1994 World Soccer Cup would be coming to the land of the free. Van Couver’s trademark opportunism was the catalyst for this, the greatest coup in the long and chequered history of Spring Break’s dynamic synergies.
This May 22nd, Spring Break will be kicking off a short pre-World Soccer Cup tour with a gig in Dublin’s Tripod. Tickets for this show are €26.50 and go on sale at 10am, Thursday April 15th, online at www.tickets.ie and in Sound Cellar of Nassau St.
I hope to see you at the show – I know we’re going to have a ball.
John & Spring Break.
Spring Break back in London
Hey Spring fans,
After a short rest – following their work as the musical guests and cocktail directors at the Montego Bay wedding of long-time friend and confidant, Michael Winslow – Spring Break are back on the road.
Sunday the 4th of April, the guys play Infernos Nightclub, Clapham High Street, London, and will be dusting off the greatest US floor-fillers of the 1980s. It promises to be an emotionally charged evening that will transport you back to that scorching July day in 1985, when Spring Break and a host of their contemporaries took to the stage at Philadelphia’s JFK stadium for Live Aid.
Tickets must be purchased in advance and won’t be available at the door. You can buy tickets using Paypal or credit card on our website here Your name and the amount of tickets bought will be added to our list and you’ll be met at the door and given wristbands to gain admission.
The band hope you can make it along and look forward to sharing a margarita after the show.
Keep the fire burnin’,
Sonny Prizewater (CEO Spring Break Inc)
After Show Party
Hey Spring Break fans,
Sonny Prizewater here:
The band are currently recording their appearance on this year’s Muppets Christmas Special and have asked that I drop a line to bring you all tidings of stage times, ticket giveaways and post-gig festivities.
Doors for the Spring Break show in Vicar St on Dec 22nd open at 7.30pm and the band will be onstage at 8.30pm sharp, so be sure to get there early to get the jump on the queue. The night’s been a sell out for some time now but for those of you without tickets, or simply looking for more, all is not lost – you can get your hands on some by tuning in to The Morning Crew on Dublin’s 98. Dermot and Dave will be giving pairs away between 6 and 10am every weekday morning from now until the show.
December saw Spring Break successfully negotiate a senior management change at ConocoPhillips and I can now confirm they’ve brokered a deal that will see their Vicar St aftershow hosted by Pygmalion in the Powerscourt Centre on South William Street. Admission is free and Spring Break DJs Cherelle LeJarre-Brown, Nelson ‘Nelson James’ James and Tevin St Kitts-Jarreau IV will be spinning tunes from 11pm til 3am. So please come along after the gig and help us all make it a night to remember.
See you all at the show – and aftershow, hopefully.
Keep the Christmas fire burnin’,
Sonny & Spring Break.
SOLD OUT
Our show in Vicar Street on the 22nd of December has now sold out. We would like to thank all of you who bought tickets and are looking forward to seeing you all on the night.
Guten tag Spring Break fans,
Helmut Kohl here, delivering a short communiqué from your favourite super group. The guys are resting ahead of a hectic fourth quarter schedule and hope this memorandum finds you well. My brief today is to illuminate the future by lifting the curtain on the past. We shall begin.
All decades previous are burdened by the events they induced. The 1980s were no different. When I now think back to that time, some moments, more than others, retain a greater significance: Saddam Hussein launching a near decade-long waron Iran, the assassination of Olaf Palme, the Chernobyl disaster, the signing of the INF treaty, Richard Pryor setting himself on fire while freebasing cocaine. But it was the events of late 1989 in Berlin that still take my breath away.
Textbooks tell us Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan’s common desire for peace initiated the end of the Cold War – this I know to be true. But while their relationship did ultimately thaw that conflict, such a détente between the super powers of America and Europe was not unprecedented. The summer of 1984 gave us many things, but none more important than an act of political defiance that forced a super group to dream again. But before the dream, came a nightmare.
Spring Break’s otherworldly performance at the opening ceremony of that year’s Los Angeles Olympics was boycotted by Soviet TV networks angered by the band’s laissez faire approach to audacious hit making. This televisual embargo was the catalyst for Spring Break to draft The Van Couver Pact (VCP): a policy that sought musical liberalisation throughout Communist Europe.
Though I always believed the band’s intentions to be altruistic, some political leaders saw the VCP as an attempt to sell the Spring Break lifestyle and its accompanying merchandise to 300 million people yet to experience the sleek design of a Kendrick Berrera-endorsed sickle. Nevertheless, the guys were undeterred by such criticism and orchestrated a summit with Europe’s “Ambassadors of Rock”, Scorpions.
It is said the best relationships are those that are mutually beneficial and this affair was a match made in a musical hereafter. It was swiftly agreed Spring Break would call on their numerous business associates to secure Scorpions corporate sponsorship for their imminent ‘Love At First Sting’ American tour and all concert runs thereafter. In return, the German rockers would disseminate Spring Break paraphernalia at all their gigs east of the Brandenburg Gate.
This covert accord continued apace for three further years until, on the morning of June 12, 1987, both bands – escorted by long time Spring Break confidante, George P. Shultz – met with President Reagan ahead of his speech commemorating the 750th anniversary of Berlin. It was here that an openly emotional but unfaltering Hilton Burbank demanded the US Commander In Chief “tear down this wall”. It was only some two and a half years later that Europe’s great barrier of ideological division would collapse under chants of SPRING BREAK ÜBER ALLES.
This December 22nd, Spring Break will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of their role in spreading the vision of justice with a show in Dublin’s Vicar St. Tickets for this show are €24.50 and go on sale 11am this Friday Oct 16th, online atwww.tickets.ie and in Sound Cellar of Nassau St.
I’m looking forward to us all once again feeling so close, like brothers.
Keep das fire burnin’,
Helmut & Spring Break
Spring Break return to London
Spring Break play at the Luminaire in Kilburn on Friday the 30th of October. Tickets available here
Tripod 15th of August
Hey Spring Break fans,
Peter Weller here, armed to serve but also protect you all from the latest arresting development in the world of Spring Break. Just caught up with the guys on the CB radio and they’ve asked I brief you with their sincerest regards.
When Spring Break docked their schooner in to the Hampton summer-home port of Hollywood producer Jon Davison in July of 1986, they came ashore with grade-A Quaaludes, a war chest of indeterminate cocktail mixture and a concept for what they thought would be the sure fire blockbuster comedy hit of 1987. A heartwarming, bawdy romp set in the not too distant future..
ROBOCOPS.
Unfortunately, the future has a way of arriving unannounced.
If I said to you: “All star cast?” you’d probably reply: “Spring Break, Conrad Bain, Rue McClanahan, Bruce Boxleitner, Sharon Gless, Robin Givens, Mark Harmon, Lea Thompson, Robert Guillaume, Jack Klugman and Loni Anderson”.
And if I said to you: “How good would it be to see that ensemble in a movie, set not to far from now, playing cyborg cops who dispense booze first and ask questions later?” I’m guessing you’d say: “Tell me more”?
Well, what if I told you this predictably implausible vision of a few years after tomorrow is a world where all holiday resorts are 5 star, ghettos have been eradicated due to equality of cocktail dissemination and passports have been replaced by personalised Ray-Bans? Don’t answer, just think about it.
The executives at Orion Pictures didn’t need even a second to do so – Robocops was green lighted but then inexplicably shelved almost as quickly as you could say ‘enormous act of folly in the making’. Rumours still abound as to why this happened. Some say it was due to Spring Break’s insistence of a gratuitous product placement every 45 seconds. Others still, cite the focusing of their efforts on making their inaugural Pebble Beach Pro-Am tournament a success. Though most critics still agree it was due, in large, to Jan Van Couver demanding the project be a solo effort called Robocop – like that would work..
But that was the past, when the future wasn’t what it used to be – now yesterday’s tomorrow is here, at last. This August 15th, Spring Break will be celebrating the long-anticipated cinematic release of Robocops with a show in Dublin’s Tripod. Tickets for this show are €24.50 and go on sale at 10am Wednesday July 1st, online at www.tickets.ie and in Sound Cellar of Nassau St.
I’m looking forward to being on the beat with you all.
Keep the fire burnin’,
Peter & Spring Break
First Good Time Super Group in Space
Hey Spring Break fans,
John Young here, beaming the latest news from your favourite 80s supergroup in to your world. I’ve asked and heard the reply in the affirmative: the guys hope this telemetric communication finds you well.
“We choose to put a supergroup in space in this decade not
because it is easy, but because it is hard, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.” President Reagan’s stirring words in January 1981 set his nation one of its greatest challenges; they embraced the necessity of invention, decried the propensity for convention and acted as a launch pad for a few brave souls to boldly play where no supergroup had before. They were 45 words that would test Jan Van Couver and his trailblazing musical life partners beyond the infinite bounds of their imaginations.
But let’s come back down to earth for a minute. Though there was a respect for the audacity of the mission when, in late 1980,
intelligence reports surfaced disclosing Soviet plans to fire into space a Russian ‘супергруппа’ (supergroup) to ‘выполните выше чем
орел’ (perform higher than an eagle), the undertaking did appear to us at NASA to contain one hubristic oversight: before you try to harmonise in space, you must first learn to sing in space.
We were in unchartered territory; a dangerous zone that called for a hit-machine with the heart of a rock’n'roller. An exhaustive search to find such a man was conducted and returned one outstanding candidate. Some three years later, Project Footloose launched the popular recording artist Kenneth Clark “Kenny” Loggins in to orbit around the Earth for long enough to perform his Grammy award winning album High
Adventure in its entirety. Assignment completed, Loggins departed the programme to resume his career as a popular recording artist.
The ante would now be upped: Project H2O would see the crew double in size. Three years later, on December 26th, 1986, Daryl Franklin Hall and John William Oates blasted off on an expedition that would see them successfully doo-wop continuously in near-earth orbit for 17 hours. Though our worst fears regarding the capability of lustrous facial hair to withstand re-entry were confirmed, Daryl and John’s remarkable vocal zigzagging finally allayed our doubts about the effects of counterpoint harmonising in space. The way had been paved for belief to subsume President Reagan’s audacious dream.
A special craft, designed to sustain lengthy space jams was readied, and on April 4th, 1989 Project Wayfarer lifted-off, starting Spring Break out on a flight that would, from that day forth, make it difficult to say what is impossible by allowing us to see that the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Now, on April 4th 2009, 20 years after that day the billboard chart stood still, Spring Break are to mark this special anniversary with a concert for all mankind in Dublin’s Tripod. Tickets for this show are EURO 24.50 and go on sale this Friday March 6th at 10am online at www.tickets.ie and in Sound Cellar of Nassau St.
I hope to see you there – I just know it’s gonna be out of this world.
Until then,
Keep the solar flares burnin’,
John & Spring Break
How to create a frontman
Here’s the intro video from our Christmas shows in Tripod…Enjoy!
Spring Break go to London
Extra Tripod date added!
Hi everyone.
Following last week’s rapid ticket sales we’ve added an extra Tripod date for the holiday season.
Spring Break: the repeat.
Mon 29th Dec, Tripod Harcourt St. Dub2
Doors 7pm, €24.50 cover, dj till late.
Tickets are now on sale online at tickets.ie and in City Discs (Temple Lane) & Sound Cellar (Nassau St.);
Happy hunting!
Spring Break
December 23rd tickets sold out!
Tickets for Tripod Dec 23rd are sold out in the shops and online. Many thanks for buying them so swiftly!
Due to external computer trickery, tickets.ie suspended online sales for an hour yesterday from around 10.30am to install new security measures. We understand this left some of you without tickets and we apologise.
We have more shows to announce shortly, so email JOIN to springbreak80s@gmail.com to get on our mailing list.
In the meantime, here’s a personal message from our refreshment consultant, Sonny Prizewater.
Hey Spring Break fans, Sonny Prizewater here.
As some of you will know, it was cocktails, ribald tales and dexterity with a knife that saw me rise through the ranks of Outatime Industries – Spring Break’s corporate arm – but it is my ability to spot second rate business opportunities that has kept me there for so long. I’ve never looked back since advising the guys against sinking capital in to Heaven’s Gate back in 1980. It was also me who pleaded with Jim Break to plough everything he had in to bubble dispensing pipes in ’86: that one put his kids through college.
As news has just filtered through that Spring Break’s Xmas spectacular in Tripod has sold out, it’s obvious to me that there many others out there with similar foresight. Thanks to all of you who picked up tickets for this show – we aim to make it not just the most fun-filled night of the holidays but also the best investment you’ve ever made.
Keep the fire burnin’
Sonny & Spring Break
Announcing our December show!
Spring Break: Four More Years!
Tues Dec 23rd, 2008, Tripod, Harcourt St. Dublin 2.
Tickets go onsale 10am this Thursday 6th November and cost €24.50 incl. booking fee.
Buy online from tickets.ie and in City Discs, Temple Bar & Sound Cellar on Nassau St.
Hey Spring Break fans,
James Baker here, dispensing the latest news from you favourite 80s Super Group. The band guarantees me they hope this electronic correspondence finds you well.
It was way back in the fall of 1983 – when I was serving as the Chief of Staff in the Reagan White House – that, in conversation with Ted Koppel on Nightline, Jan Van Couver memorably asserted: “When you’re in Spring Break, every night is Saturday night. Heck-fire Ted, every day is Saturday night! Don’t get me wrong, we respect time, it’s just we aren’t controlled by it. We know, of course, that for every minute spent organising an hour is earned, but gosh darn it, we don’t count every hour in the day, we just make every hour count. You dig what I’m putting down, Ted? You dig that?”
It was clear Ted didn’t, but after spending the best part of six months on the road with the guys during the Presidential campaign of the following year, I sure did. After a few weeks, the days began to merge like MCI Communications and WorldCom. It was an emotional vortex but also the most exciting time of my life. For Jan, Hilton, Carmichael, Kenny and Jim however, it was a much longer ride; a disorienting one that would come crashing to an end, on October 19th, 1987: Black Monday.
Experts still disagree as to what caused the world’s markets to shed such a huge value that morning, though it has long been my view it was the news ABC would not be picking up Sledge Hammer for a third season. There is, though, less confusion surrounding what caused the markets to rally in the days following the decline.
Kenny Berrera – whose great grandfather introduced Charles Dow and Edward Jones – was having lunch in Martha’s Vineyard with Alan Greenspan, the head of the Federal Reserve, as events unfolded that afternoon.
The Chairman of America’s central banking system was aghast at what was unfolding before him, by close of business he was also perplexed: perplexed as to how Spring Break shares were the only units of account that had continued to rise in value as all others nosedived. At this moment, he turned to the urbane guitarist for counsel.
Berrera explained that he had seen the crash coming; that because of unstable portfolio insurance derivatives it was “an accident waiting to happen” and also “imminently forecastable”. He told Greenspan he had taken Spring Break’s entire portfolio the previous week and reinvested it in Michael Jackson bonds – Jackson was to release his album Bad on October 24th – and how it was this alliance with their old buddy that inspired the markets’ confidence in Spring Break.
It was Berrera who then advised the Fed to affirm its “readiness to serve as a source of liquidity to support the economic and financial system”. A catastrophic crisis had been averted thanks to Kenny’s swift and decisive action, though it would be years before the markets fully recovered nonetheless. It was business as usual for Spring Break, however. That winter they penned Waiting for a Star to Fall and made a memorable cameo appearance on the Cosby Show Holiday special.
This Xmas, they’ll be breaking from their advisory role to current Fed Chairman, Ben Bernanke, to once again take to the stage at Dublin’s Tripod, on December 23rd, 2008.
Tickets to this show are €24.50 and go on sale Thursday 6th November at 10am online www.tickets.ie and in Sound Cellar on Nassau St. These tickets are sure to be the hottest commodities in town, so don’t miss out. The recovery starts here, people.
See you at show time
Keep the Fire burnin’,
James & Spring Break
Tripod ticket requests
Hi all.
We’ve had lots of people asking for tickets for Sept 27th. Sorry but all the tickets are sold out.
If any of our guests don’t show up that night we may release their tickets on a 1st come 1st served basis.
In the meantime, email springbreak80s@gmail.com and we’ll put you on our mailing list, so you’ll get early warning of the next show.
To those with tickets, let’s make it a Grand Old Party!
Spring Break
Super Saturday sold out!
Hey Spring Break fans, Sonny Prizewater here.
Over the more than three decades I’ve been an employee of Outatime Industries – Spring Break’s corporate arm – I’ve witnessed historic events, made some unforgettable cocktails and seen inspiration inspired, but these past 24hrs have really waylaid me. News has just reached me that our Super Saturday show in Tripod sold out last night as I was making my way to Beijing for the Olympic ceremony later today.
I immediately contacted the guys to let them know and I can tell you, I haven’t heard such composed disbelief since I phoned Ron and Nancy back in late ’83 to tell them of their landslide victory over Mondale (photo attached). Thanks, on behalf of us all, for ticking the box marked Spring Break and once again making us your #1. We look forward to seeing you at the show.
Keep the fire burnin’,
Sonny & Spring Break
Spring Break : Super Saturday!
Tickets go on sale at 9.27am next Thursday August 7th, online at
www.tickets.ie , Sound Cellar & City Discs.
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Ed Rollins here, canvassing on behalf of your favourite 80s Super
Group. The band assures me they hope this electronic correspondence
finds you well.
As we all know, the enduring appeal of Spring Break is often
attributed to their construction of bipartisan pop hits that
bandwagoned and sloganeered their way to the top of the Billboard
Chart. Somewhat less well known however, is that the ease with which
these melodic market leaders were created owes much to the laissez
faire song writing climate that bore them.
I have long seen the guys’ rehearsal yacht as being both a free market
of creativity and a vessel of musical self-regulation: a pristine
sailboat where the greatest demand is for and of themselves. Song
writing sessions have often been fraught – it’s true that cocktails
have been thrown, satin shirts ripped and beard trimmers hidden – but
in the end they have always pulled together and asked the same
questions of each other: is this the best we can do? Can we make this
more commercially viable? Are you drinking that?
And so it is every four years when Spring Break turn their attention
to another of their great passions: the political future of the free
world.
Sure, sumptuous tax breaks and prime investment opportunities with
military contractors are the kind of benefits the guys have enjoyed as
lifelong card-carriers of the GOP, but this is one band that has never
shirked its political responsibility. While many of their peers have
spent their careers hiding behind liberal rhetoric, Spring break have
allowed their actions to speak as loudly as their shirts. It was this
I had in mind when I made my boldest move as the National Director of
the Reagan/Bush Presidential campaign of 1984.
September 27th, 1983 was the date and NBC Studios in NYC the place
that the race for The White House irreversibly turned in favour Ron
and George that election year. It was when and where an unrepeated
precedent occurred in American politics: a debate between the
favourite musical artists of both nominees. Fighting the corner for
the Mondale/Ferraro Democratic that night was a singer/songwriter
called Bob Dylan.
Though the opening exchanges were nervy – with both sides attacking
the vacuity of the others’ lyrics – the aging troubadour began to
falter under Spring Break’s electric onslaught. Dylan’s doubts about
the GOP’s commitment to foreign aid, for instance, seemed imprudent
once he was informed by Sonny Prizewater that he and his band had once
blessed the rains down in Africa.
The contest, and entire campaign, changed in one instant however, when
Dylan claimed it should be him and not Spring Break who should act as
musical director for the planned Hollywood blockbuster, Cocktail. The
frail folk balladeer claimed he had learned all there was to know
about the art form from Kenny Loggins while holidaying with the
bearded soundtrack machine in Montego Bay during the fall of ’82.
Jan Van Couver’s reply was as swift as it was defining: “Bob, I’ve
played with Kenny Loggins; I know Kenny Loggins; Kenny Loggins is a
friend of mine. Bob, you’re no Kenny Loggins.” With that, the
Mondale/Ferraro campaign was knocking on heaven’s door. Ron and George
were returned to the White House later that year with a 49 State
landslide victory.
I will always be indebted to the guys’ performance that night. Despite
my best efforts, it was the last time we would see Spring Break in a
televised political debate. But now, 25 years later, they have chosen
to remember that moment with a commemorative music concert in Dublin’s
Tripod, September 27th, 2008.
Tickets to this Super Saturday show are €24.50 and go on sale at
9.27am, Thursday August 7th, online at www.tickets.ie and in Sound
Cellar on Nassau St. I hope to be there myself and look forward to
voting Spring Break with you all.
Until then,
Keep the fire burnin’
Ed & Spring Break
Tripod Christmas Photos
After many months working in the lab we’ve finally managed to convert our Polaroids from our Christmas show in Tripod into digital form and have posted them here
Tripod Sold Out!!
Hi folks,
Tickets for April 12th are all sold out – if you haven’t got yours, get on the mailing list in time for our next show; email us at
springbreak80s@gmail.com
To the lucky ticket holders, many thanks to you for snapping up all tickets, retail & online in just a few days!
All our best,
Spring Break
Tripod 12th April 2008
Hey Spring Break fans,
Carl Lewis here, relaying all the latest news from your favourite 80s Super Group.
An insatiable appetite for glory, a passion for smashing world records, a holier than thou sense of self-righteousness, a voracious attitude to corporate backhanders, and a chequered past when it comes to drug use are just some of the attributes I share with my good friends in Spring Break. But there’s another common bond between us, something for which we will all likely be remembered, forever more: our startling performances at the Los Angeles Summer Olympics of 1984. But let’s jump back some 90 years before that perfect moment in time…
When Baron Pierre de Coubertin founded the International Olympic Committee in Paris back in 1894, he bestowed upon the movement a three word motto: “Citius, Altius, Fortius” (Faster, Higher, Stronger). This adage is one I have always strived to live by throughout my career as a God-fearing track and field athlete of world renown. On the evening of July 28th 1984, at the opening ceremony of the Games of the XXIII Olympiad however, Spring Break set about rewriting the Baron’s near century old aphorism with a set that is still the gold medal standard for every gig since played, or yet imagined.
The headline on the front page of the LA Times the following morning simply read: “Atarachos, Oraios, Yperfysikos” (Composed, Beautiful, Supernatural). These three tenets have been the basis for every Spring Break show since the Pacific sun set on that otherworldly appearance at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and it will be no different when the band appears at Tripod on Saturday April 12th to reprise their Olympic set in its entirety.
Before then there is the small matter of aiding me, and other former Games legends, in delivering the torch to Beijing for the start of this year’s festival of deception. But rest assured, this trans-continental slog will not incapacitate the guys one bit: they’ll be undertaking their leg – the first leg – of the journey aboard Mary Lou Retton’s private jet.
Tickets to this Tripod show are €24.50 and are on sale now online at www.tickets.ie and in Sound Cellar on Nassau St. I hope to be there myself and look forward to running up a considerable drinks tab with you all.
Until then,
Keep the fire burnin’
Carl & Spring Break
Tripod, Sat 22nd Dec – Sold Out
Spring Break: The Miracle on Harcourt Street
Sold Out.
Spring Break fans,
Jan Van Couver here, currently writing you from the Martha’s Vineyard Holistic Retreat Spa.
Marilu Henner and I are now on the final leg of our extended holiday tour of the world’s top integrated health hideaways. This prolonged sojourn – my first of 30+ years in music, excepting, of course, an enforced break from entertaining huge crowds in the early 90s, due to the short-lived popularity of a swathe of be-flannelled ‘musicians’ with a dubiously bleak world view – has taken in many destinations..
Stays at The Ashram and The Esalen Institute in California, In:Spa in Marrakech and The Big Stretch in northern Spain’s Picos mountains have ignited a flame in my nerve centre, and allowed me to once more clearly focus on the axiom that underscores audacious hit-making: dream; interpret; beguile.
But enough show: more business.
News has arrived freshly via telefax that the Spring Break Xmas Show 2007: The Miracle on Harcourt Street © has now sold out. On behalf of Carmichael, Hilton, Jim, Kendrick and myself, thank you to all who picked up tickets for what we guarantee will be the most fun-filled night of theatrics you could have this coming holiday season. Our entire production team is now in full swing planning the show and our hope is to eclipse all that has gone before in our career together as a friends, colleagues and members of the GOP.
We’ll be making a special announcement closer to the event so be sure to look out for further electronic mails, or check in with us at our home on the Information Superhighway: www.springbreak80s.com
Keep the fire burnin’,
Jan & Spring Break
Tripod, Sat 22nd Dec
~ Spring Break: Miracle on Harcourt St.
Saturday 22nd December 2007
Tripod, Harcourt St. Dublin 2
doors 7.30, show ends 10.30
tickets €23.50 incl. booking fee from;
~ www.tickets.ie
~ Sound Cellar, Nassau St.
~ City Discs, Temple Bar Lane
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Howdy friends,
George P. Shultz here, dropping a line to you all on behalf of Spring Break.
The guys have been on the road these past few months and only last weekend wrapped up their mini-tour of executive fundraisers with a headlining show at the Bechtel Corporation’s end of summer barbecue. More at home in an environment of assertive political purpose, the Break were only too happy to turn down a slot at Tipper Gore’s 59 th birthday party in favour of performing for an ageing cabal of business associates with similar vested interests.
These shows are an essential stop on the Spring Break itinerary as they not only provide an opportunity to test material in front of an inattentive and out of touch audience, but also afford time to consort with those principle movers in US industry who annually pick up the tab for the band’s increasingly large carbon footprint. In a bid to unwind, this past week has seen the guys undertake a series of personal ventures as varied as the music that has defined their career together as a performing group.
While Jim Break has continued his stay with me to chair strategic talks at the JP Morgan Chase bank’s International Advisory Council, his kinsman in synth, Hilton Burbank, has flown to California to receive an honorary fellowship from the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Plant City, Florida, and in particular, its recently opened church of Scientology is where you’ll find Kendrick Berrera, the spiritual countinghouse’s principal benefactor. Carmichael Anthony Thomas St. Hall is in New York acting as an advisor on the set of a made-for-TV biopic about his late friend, Jean-Michel Basquiat. And Jan Van Couver – as most of you will already know from tabloid newspaper coverage – is vacationing in Europe with Marilu Henner.
After these projects are completed, the fellas plan to return their attention to their new luxury hanglider company (Style Glide), an appointment to turn on the Xmas lights at the Rockefeller Centre in New York at the end of November, and the small matter of putting together their freshly confirmed show in Tripod, Dublin on December 22 nd.
Plans are already in motion to make this Xmas show the band’s most spectacular yet. Tickets for this seasonal spectacular are now on sale and are available online at www.tickets.ie and in the retail outlets Sound Cellar of Nassau St and City Discs of Temple Bar Lane South.
On behalf of,
Spring Break
Keep the fire burnin’,
George P. Shultz
Gig news
Aloha and hello from the South Pacific!
After a long hot Summer dealing in US sub-prime mortgages by telefax, we’re hauling anchor and setting sail for your shores.
Much interest has been shown in exactly when & where our next show will be. The final preperations are being made pending an official announcement; until then all that can be revealed is that it will be in December in Dublin city.
‘Til next time, keep the fire burning bright!
Spring Break
Springbreak @ The Sugar Club
Friday July 13th & 20th
All the online tickets have sold out for both nights but tickets are still available at Sound Cellar on Nassau St.
The Sugar Club, door 8pm
Tickets €18 from www.tickets.ie Sound Cellar and City Discs
Hey everybody,
Spring Break here,
We’re busy planning and rehearsing for our summer shows in the Sugar Club this coming July (13th and 20th), but have taken a little time out of our schedule to let you know about the latest Breaking news.
We hope this electronic message finds you all well.
When our official biographer, Rudy ‘Baby’ Kerzner, contacted us last year with a view to updating our authorised biography, ‘Breaking Hearts – The Spring Break Story’, it took us all of a New York Minute to agree to meet our former press agent for what we thought would be a standard, emotionally distant, heart-to-heart. “Sure, we’ll chew the cud and shoot the breeze about the Dom DeLuise incident again and hey presto; we’ll have another bestseller and a string of holiday homes in the Hamptons on our hands.”
It became quickly apparent however, that the man who had first interviewed us for Life Magazine at Gilda Radner’s Vermont summer home back in ’81, had arrived at Hilton Burbank’s penthouse suite at the Dakota building with more than just a pen, notepad and nearly 30 years of ‘remember the time’ bonhomie. He also had a set of searching questions that were linked by one word: Pulitzer.
Over the course of three soul-baring months, Rudy delved deep for answers about events we had long ago placed in a vault of emotion marked ‘That Was Yesterday’. No longer did he seem content to toast Spring Break by quaffing the champagne stories of the glory years: what he wanted was to get up close and personal; to crack open a sixer and intoxicate himself with the dull froth of the dark times. Yes; trade embargoes, and our casual flaunting of them, have bookmarked our time together as a performing group, but it nonetheless came as a surprise to us all, to find ourselves finally lifting our self-imposed ‘truth embargo’ on the tumultuous events of the year that almost broke us, as both musicians and human beings: 1985.
No topic is left uncovered in this candid tell-all which has led the New York Times to say: “A who’s who of entertainment and politics, it reads like a cultural almanac and is possibly the most important document since Battlefield Earth. From their shameless antics at the We Are the World recording session, to their misinterpreted version of the Star Spangled Banner at Wrestlemania I, right through their involvement in the advertising campaign for New Coke, and on to their infamous show in Sun City, Spring Break finally lift the lid on the Annus Horribilis that left them on the brink”.
1985 – Breaking the Silence: Volume I is released on Friday July 13 th and we’ll be taking to the stage in the Sugar Club that night to celebrate its release. The following Friday, July 20th, sees the release of 1985 – Breaking the Silence: Volume II which will be marked also by a spectacular Sugar Club show. Tickets for both these events go on sale Friday May 25 th and are available in Sound Cellar, City Discs, and online at www.tickets.ie
Below are some of the exciting stills from 1985 – Breaking the Silence: Volume II. Be sure to check back soon to www.springbreak80s.com for sensational sneak excerpts from both books.
See you at show time.
Keep the fire burnin’,
Spring Break
St. Frat’s weekend show
We’ve just posted some photos of our Frat’s day Show here: http://www.springbreak80s.com/?page_id=48
Sunday 18th March,
Temple Bar Music Centre
doors 8pm, live music & club till 3am
Many thanks to all you beautiful folk who braved the weather and made it such a special night!
Check out our pre-gig movie
Spring Break.
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As we move into the season which threw up the debauched event to which we lend our name, we here at Spring Break Towers are ready to move through the gears once again and make plans for the year ahead. That’s not to say we haven’t been working flat out since the holidays though: far from it, in fact. For the past five weeks we’ve been writing a synth-musical based on the life of our greatly-missed friend and economic adviser, Milton Friedman.
Distilling the essence of a man whose belief in the free-market was matched only by his faith in the music of Huey Lewis wasn’t easy, but we soon found our personal memories of this true behemoth of 20th Century economics bankrolled a surplus of wistful, yet emotionally prudent compositions. We will forever be indebted to Milton for campaigning, on our behalf, for the great Reagan tax cut of 1981 and we hope this show goes some way to posthumously repaying a man whose ideology – when finally implemented – enabled us to live on enormous, custom-built catamarans for over 25 years.
The show is called ‘You Can’t Say Laissez Fairer Than That’, and opens on Broadway this summer. We’re delighted to tentatively announce that our old hunting buddy, Andrew McCarthy, is in talks to play the lead. The title track and a shorter companion piece – ‘Smooth Liberal’ – will hopefully be available for download in the fall.
With this emotionally intense period of composing concluded, we last week decamped to our rehearsal yacht in the Virgin Islands, in an effort to get to know ourselves, each other and our music again. Now that our souls have been searched, our batteries recharged and our music re-invigorated, we’ve set a course for March 18th and the Temple Bar Music Centre.
We’ll be stopping to pick up Sonny Prizewater and Campari, Schweppes & Ice from round Kokomo somewhere on the way home, but we’ll be back in enough time to construct a show that would make our cronies on the Super Bowl Organisation Committee blush.
Keep the fire burnin’,
Spring Break
Jan Can Dance
Fri 22nd Show selling fast!
Friday 22nd Dec, Temple Bar Music Centre
Door 7.30, show 8.30, venue closes 11pm, €15 cover.
Tickets are available online at www.tickets.ie, in Sound Cellar on Temple Lane and City Discs on Nassau St.
*** For a chance to win one of five pairs of tickets for Friday’s show***
Tune into Life! with Orla Barry, Newstalk 106 – 108fm, Tuesday 19th December, 9 – 11am.
Listen out for the question and text your answer to 53106 texts cost 30c
Hey Everybody,
Michael McDonald here:
The Spring Break guys are currently spreading their good-time party vibes in Botswana as part of the PR drive of their benefactors and companions in the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency sector of the World Bank, so they’ve asked me to drop you all a line in their absence.
As you may be aware – unless you “Keep Forgettin” – the Break show on December 23rd in the Temple Bar Music Centre has completely sold out. Due to the preternatural demand for tickets they experienced in the aftermath of the ‘sold out’ signs going up, Spring Break have decided to add an extra date – a Special Xmas Preview – on the preceding night, Friday December 22nd.
In stark contrast to what John McClane felt at Xmas 1989, Spring Break are greatly looking forward to ‘the same shit happening to the same guys twice,’ and promise to play hard with a vengeance for all who attend over both nights of The Miracle On Curved Street.
May “Ya Mo Be There” with you all this holiday season,
Mike McDonald
Christmas show
Spring Break: Miracle on Curved St.
Live 80′s music & dj until 3am
Temple Bar Music Centre
Saturday 23rd December
Doors 7.30pm €20 cover
All advance & online tickets are gone, see above for 2nd show.
See you there
Spring Break
Sugar Club Photos
We’ve posted some of the photos of Friday’s gig on the page The Sugar Club October 2006 Photos
Some pretty impressive costumes! Well done eveybody.
Sugar Club October 20th
We’ve been surprised before, but this takes the cake – all advance tickets are gone! If you didn’t get yours, don’t panic.
A small amount of tickets will be available from 8pm at the Sugar Club on the night of the performance, first come first served.
Due to the huge demand tickets cannot be reserved either from the Sugar Club or ourselves.
Sold out Spring Break shows have long been known to revolutionise attitudes, morals and even entire belief systems, but now Ireland’s leading super group can proudly announce that their crepuscular, pacific grooves have initiated regime change in the former Soviet state of Nukehavistan.
It all began last year when senior representatives of Chevron-Texaco Corp, Conoco-Phillips and Nestle contacted Jan Van Couver about the possibility of his charges becoming the first western group to play in the rogue nation’s capital, Warhednya.
The show took place last Saturday and with all six of us hitting top gear, things were really cookin’ by the time we were joined onstage by long time buddy Dom DeLuise for a flamboyant run through You’re The Voice. The resultant riot lasted a week and turned power over to a merciless, dictatorial junta: Spring Break fled the country by helicopter and hitched a ride home from theBlack Sea aboard the USS Reagan.
We’re now resting up after the ordeal and are obeying doctor’s orders to keep replenishing fluid at every opportunity – though whether sinking a bevy of Brandy Alexanders and Margaritas by mid morning are part of those orders is questionable, but experience has taught us the only way to plan an electrifying show in the Sugar Club is with a robust cocktail in hand.
See you at show time,
Spring Break
Castlepalooza August 6th
Catch us outdoors at Castlepalooza, Charleville Castle, Tullamore Co. Offaly, Sunday August 6th
Spring Break will dust off the seldom heard gems of U.S. 80′s music and play an unrelenting, emotionally charged set of high-octane, chest-beating floor-fillers that will have you punching the air, weeping openly and regretting you never got to the JFK stadium for Live Aid.
But now’s your chance to come as close to that beautiful day in July ’85 as this generation can…
For line-up, tickets and directions go to
http://www.castlepalooza.com
http://www.myspace.com/castlepalooza
Sugar Club Update
Hey all… quick update about Spring Break tickets for the Sugar Club shows at the end of the month:
Tickets are no longer available online for the show on the 30th: they sold out this afternoon!
There are still some tickets available online for the show on the 23rd: click on http://www.tickets.ie/eventspage.aspx
You can find tickets for both shows in City Discs and Sound Cellar but haste is advised as sales are reportedly brisk.
As always, a very limited number of tickets will be purchasable at the door on the nights of both shows, though leaving it that late is about as sensible as making Burt Reynolds your best man – believe me, we know.
We’re 99% certain these are going to be our last gigs before a Christmas week or New Year’s Eve show so get yourself a ticket and get yourself along for some high-octane tunes and a raft of raffish antics… Spring Break style.
See you at show time,
Spring Break
The Sugar Club 23rd & 30th June
After a short rest – following their work as the musical guests and
general antic makers at the wedding of long-time friend and confidant,
Bubba “Hightower” Smith – Spring Break are back…as brazen as a Carl
Lewis Olympic medal haul and as excited as Dom DeLuise at an
all-you-can-eat sea food buffet.
Spring Break have spent a long time on the road this past career and
the daily grind of a lobster breakfast in a hot-tub, followed by a
sold out show and wild after show party have left the Break hungry for
something that they – like Whoopi Goldberg in Jumpin’ Jack Flash –
have missed for sometime: intimacy. Since they’re totally incapable of
achieving it in monogamous relationships the band have decided that
it’s you – their fans – who they’re gonna get up close and intimate
with.
Yes; you guys roundly asked for it, so Spring Break are giving it to
you. Only this time they’re giving it to you twice. That’s right, this
June, Spring Break are reappearing at the Sugar Club for the not just
Friday the 23rd but also for Friday the 30th. Just like DeVito beside
Schwarzenegger in Twins – it’ll be half the size, but twice the fun.
Tickets for both these shows are available online at www.tickets.ie
and also in City Discs and Sound Cellar. A very limited amount will be
available at the door of the venue on the night. We recommend that to avoid any queues you order online & get them posted out to you.
Check the attached flyer for more info.
Look forward to seeing you there
Spring Break
“Spring Break…the best friend a good time ever had” – Kim Cattrall
“Call them crazy; call them screwballs; call them freaked out – but
just make sure you call them.” – Harold Ramis
“I haven’t seen such needless excess since I viewed Brewster’s
Millions with Loni Anderson at Jack Elam’s ranch.” – Burt Reynolds
“We’re very proud to be sponsoring the European leg of this tour, and
we’re confident that Spring Break can promote our brand in all
territories and thereby ensure that ‘The Heat Is On’ our competitors.”
- Donald D. Humphreys (Senior Vice President and Treasurer of Exxon
Mobil Corporation)
ST. PATRICK’S EVE CONCERT
We’d like to thank everyone who came to see us on St. Patrick’s eve at the Temple Bar Music Centre. We had a great night and we hope you all did too! We’ve posted some photo’s of the night here. Keep an eye on the site for details of our next show, hope to see you all soon!
TBMC Tickets Update
Tickets for March 16th are SOLD OUT online!
As of Monday 13th, there were still a few for sale at City Discs beside TBMC & Sound Cellar, Nassau St.
There will be a very small number available on the night on a first come, first served basis.
Only €15.00 each including booking fee.
Remember, Doors 7.30, Band Onstage 8.30.
Happy hunting!
TBMC 16th March ‘06
Firstly, Merry New Year and Thanks to all you beautiful people for the love in 2005 – Spring Break salutes you!
And now a news flash…
If there’s one thing Thanksgiving in rehab taught us it’s ‘get back onstage!’
That’s why we’re back playing the Temple Bar Music Centre, Thursday 16th March.
Tickets will be available shortly.
Last TBMC tickets available
Hey buddy, got your Christmas Spectacular ticket yet? You haven’t?!?
DON’T PANIC!!! We’ve allowed for more tickets to be sold at the door.
So, if you don’t have a credit card and can’t get satisfaction on tickets.ie or in City Discs on Temple Lane, get down to the Temple Bar Music Centre at 8pm on Friday. They’re only €15.00 each including booking fee.
TICKETS!
You can actually buy tickets for the Temple Bar Music Centre concert now. Tickets.ie or they can be found at Sound Cellar on Nassau Street or City Discs on Temple Lane.
CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR
Springbreak are taking over the Temple Bar Music Centre on Friday the 23rd of December. We will be joined on the night by some very special guests and there will be a disco til late. More bulletins as events warrant.
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The Sugar Club Friday 11th November
Springbreak return to the Sugar Club on Friday 11th of November. Doors open at 8.00pm. Look forward to seeing you there!
Thank you!
Springbreak would like to send out our deepest love and thanks to everyone who came to see us at the Sugar Club on Friday night. We have all decided that it was our most enjoyable concert to date. Click here to see some photos of the night, check out if you were there if you don’t remember. Hope to see you all next month.
Friday 14th Oct. – Sugarclub
Springbreak play the Sugarclub on the 14th of October! Admission is €12 and the doors open at 8.00pm so get there early, the place fills up pretty quickly !
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