Rewind: The 80s Music Festival Brings New Wave Back to Life in the UK This Summer

Rewind: The 80s Festival offers fans of bands that actually sound different from each other and singers who actually sing instead of relying on Autotune to get them through the embarrassing negative musical component of not being able to carry a tune a chance to relive the wonder, fun and imagination that was 80s New Wave music.

If you've got the cash to hop a plane across the pond and get yourself to Scotland by late July or England by late August, then you have the chance to thrill to music that makes you actually feel good rather than music that makes you sick to your stomach. A trip to either version of Rewind: The 80s Festival will prove to be quite the eye opening experience when you realize that Kim Wilde and the girls of Bananarama don't sound exactly the same when singing. What a shock this will be to fans growing up without the ability to distinguish any dissimilarity between any songs sung by Katy Perry, Kesha or Lady Gaga. Of course, the lack of any dissimarility between those three contemporary musical performers may be explained by the fact that they are, actually, the very same person.
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Rewind: The 80s Festival will be like stepping into a DeLorean equipped with a flux capacitor and heading back to those halcyon days when MTV actually played music videos. Take that DeLorean back to a time when television networks names actually reflected the content of their programming and music you heard on the radio didn't all sound like it had been produced on the same computer in some music producer's media center room. The lineup at Rewind: The 80s Festival reads like a who's who of top New Wave acts from the age of Reagan, Alf and New Coke. Among the bands to be performing at one or both events are ABC, Heaven 17, the Bluebells, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, the Beat (known as the English Beat to Americans), China Crisis, Modern Romance, the Human League and Haircut 100. If 80s New Wave ain't your thing, you may be tempted by the appearance of musical acts like the Village People, Billy Ocean, Average White Band, Rick Astley or T'Pau. It is even within the realm of possibility, one supposes, that someone might head to either of the Rewind festivals just to check out Howard Jones.

It could happen...possibly.