The year is 1981. The Human League is playing on your boom box as you chuck on some jazzercise clothes, paint your eyelids with neon eyeshadow and crimp your hair senseless.
One of the most influential bands to have come out of the shoulder-pad and scrunchie-laden decade, the Human League, is now headed to Australia to celebrate their legendary synth-pop masterpiece, the 1981 album Dare.
Since forming in 1978, the Human League has had several chart-topping singles and released nine studio albums, a remix album, a live album, six EPs, and 13 compilation albums.
Hailing from Sheffield, the English synth-pop band were one of the most influential bands of the 1980s, with Dare catapulting the band into the poptastic stratosphere with the hit and Brit Award-winning single ‘Don’t You Want Me’ and other album tracks like ‘Love Action (I Believe in Love)’ and ‘(Keep Feeling) Fascination.’ An arsenal of hits followed across the decade, such as ‘Human’, ‘Together in Electric Dreams’, ‘Mirror Man’ and ‘The Lebanon’.
The Human League – comprised of founding member Phillip Oakey, Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley – will perform on March 9 and March 14 at Melbourne’s Palais Theatre, playing Dare in full, along with anthemic tracks from their back catalogue.
Tickets to see the Human League on March 9 are now sold-out but there are still tickets for March 14, so act quickly. For more information about the Human League’s tour across Australia, you can visit the Destroy All Lines website here.
