RELEASED ON 23.8.2024 ON GIMME RECORDINGS VIA PLASTIC HEAD
CATALOGUE NUMBER GR030
British synth-pop duo Tears For Fears, featuring Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith, were enjoying life at the
top of the charts when they made this live recording for the King Biscuit Flower Hour in June of 1985. Their
successful sophomore album, Songs from the Big Chair, had just been released and it was on the
promotional tour that they played this lively set at London’s prestigious Hammersmith Odeon.
• This show contains the strongest material from their debut album, The Hurting, as well as new material off
their recent release, which was riding up the charts at the time. This concert is a testament to the new
wave aesthetic embodied by Tears for Fears in the mid-'80s, and this is a showcase set of the band at
near perfection. Orzabal and Smith were already press darlings in the U.K., deeply embraced by BBC
Radio 1, so the audience is receptive to them and is familiar with the material. Bonus cuts here come from
another Hammersmith show, this time at the less salubrious Palais - just around the corner from the Odeon
recorded in 1983.