St. Frat’s weekend show
11We’ve just posted some photos of our Frat’s day Show here: https://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
Is it just me or is Jan a bit sauced up in the new poster?
I, for one, have seen that pie-eyed grin many times before. Those few who witnessed our first ever show – what now seems like a lifetime ago – in Glenart Castle, may remember it too. Though it must be said, he wasn’t alone in experiencing a personal 9/11 that night/morning.
Misty, water-coloured memories..
More than likely it was the super-muscle shakes, medicine-ball juggling and sparring with Chuck Norris in my bid for that washboard stomach; wasn’t it worth it?
Or it was Sonny’s famous ‘white Asians’…
for the opening video for the night…I have an idea!! The opening credits and theme music of family ties!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iliLnQmaEOA
Sonny could be Skip! The guy who used to just come in to eat breakfast!
Nice idea, though I feel the production values are a little outside of our time scale. We would have had to commisson the family portrait about two months back for starts, and we like to get these things done in a day if at all possible.
It’s a shame as I know Kendrick is a big fan of Meredith Baxter-Birney. And I’m sure none of us will ever forget how touched we all were by Michael Gross’ star turn, as the worried father, in the Vanilla Ice motion picture event, Cool As Ice.
Jan, a man of the people and a fan of Becks (the beer), he knows how to keep it real!! respect
what a doozy of a gig…i was dancing like ive never danced befooooore.hope y’all will be back soon!
Class gig lads, loved the Top Gun bit!! Hopefully you’ll do a Rocky themed gig, nothing says 80s rock like some saucy Survivor!! (Also that song No Easy Way out is class!)
Jeff you are a total ‘non-fan’ and were clearly not present at the xmas extravaganza ‘miracle on curved street’. I recommend you go to your nearest bookshop and buy the penguin book of Spring Break.
Now, now Alf; less of the ‘tude.
Everyone’s welcome to hop aboard the good-catamaran Spring Break, and we can’t stand for more seasoned shipmate’s such as yourself – am I right in guessing you’re a lecturer in film? I am, aren’t I?!? – knocking the new jack tars by knowingly recanting tales of how it was in the old days. We were all greenhorns once upon a time.
Hell, you were a working member of Spring Break Inc. for a few gigs, you should be welcoming all new deck hands down in to the galley for a cocktail, and a crash course in the difference between a Hall & Oates coil and Toto double bowline knot.. Prizewater’s down there now showing Kirstie Alley around his sushi bar if you want to give him a shout??
I surely will. Does this mean I can do a ‘front of house meet and greet’ at any forthcoming gigs?? Think of what I did for the Tigers!!