Psychedelic Furs Back With Timeless Tunes
Happy endings are rare, while loneliness and misery are all too plentiful, a fact of life that helps explain the success of the Psychedelic Furs’ reunion tour.
Anyone who so much as hummed a note in the early ‘80s is back plying the nostalgia circuit, yet this British new wave band’s sold-out show Tuesday at Anaheim’s House of Blues only intermittently felt dated, mixing new material with old.
That’s because Furs singer-songwriter Richard Butler spent most of his time then--and now--delving into the timeless questions of what happens when love doesn’t work out, when the heart seems fated to be a lonely hunter.
Such Furs’ pop-radio staples as “Love My Way” and “Pretty in Pink” still sound fairly good, perhaps because they weren’t dripping with the now-anachronistic synthesizer sounds of that time.
Further, Butler--joined in the quintet by original members Tim Butler on bass and John Ashton on guitar--has lost none of his magnetism as a Bowie-esque singer and front man.
* Psychedelic Furs plays Friday and Saturday at House of Blues, 8430 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood. With Tinfed. 8 p.m. $30. (323) 848-5100.
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