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The podast from the Frida 4/11/08 Revenge of the 80s Radio Show is up. We featured music from Big Audio Dynamite, Voice of the Beehive, Strawberry Switchblade, INXS, Red Rockers and more. Our “Soundtrack Classic” was an unlikely duet between Annette Funicello and Fishbone from the movie “Back to the Beach.”

Revenge of the 80s Radio airs live tonight 7-9pm Eastern US time on Q99.1FM in the Hudson Valley and the Revenge of the 80s website (the “listen live” link is near the top of the far right column), featuring some of the great music from the New Wave era. {IMU_468_60} You can also call us […]

The official MySpace page for Revenge of the 80s Radio is up and running. Stay connected as a “Friend” of Revenge of the 80s. We will update you on show news, podcasts, interviews and more. Revenge of the 80s MySpace

Dead or Alive, ABC, The Human League, A Flock of Seagulls, Naked Eyes and Belinda Carlisle will tour together this year for the 80s Regeneration Tour, which starts August 1st in Phoenix and is slated to ends on August 29th in Atlanta. {IMU_468_60} While the B-52s and Cyndi Lauper will be out for some time […]

According to Blondie’s MySpace page, tickets are on sale for their Parallel Lines 30th Anniversary tour are on sale now. Details are on the Blondie MySpace page, including a special password for the pre-sale today and tomorrow.

Our podcast for teh 4/4/08 Revenge of the 80s Show is up. With me that evening was guest blogger and longtime radio DJ Al Spry, who worked with me in our very early days and came up for a visit from Florida. During the show, we featured the music of Adam Ant, Voice of the […]

Tonight, Revenge of the 80s Radio will feature the music of artists including Voice of the Beehive, The Cure, The Clash, The Hoodoo Gurus and a special soudtrack classic from the Bone Symphony. {IMU_468_60} Also, our new Guest Blogger, Al Spry, will join me for the program. Last year, from his Orlando home, he endured […]

Tony Carey, who in the 1970s was a member of the hard rock band Rainbow, also left an interesting mark in the 1980s. While a teen watching MTV back in the day, I saw what was an extremely creative juxtaposition of the concept album and the music video. It was from a band Carey was […]

{IMU_468_60} The podcast from our March 28th show is up, featuring our interview with Rose McDowall, the former lead singer of “Strawberry Switchblade.” The conversation with Rose leads off the second hour, where we also showcase some of the best of Strawberry Switchblade and a piece from Sorrow, one of her later bands. Rose remembers […]

Tonight’s show will feature an interview with Rose McDowall, former lead singer for Strawberry Switchblade. Our discussion will lead off the 2nd hour. Revenge of the 80s airs live every Friday night 7-9pm on Q99.1FM in the Hudson Valley, NY and www.revengeofthe80sradio.com A podcast will be available after the live show.

They are back — the B-52s make a strong comeback and not forgetting thier 1980s New Wave roots. The new CD, “Funplex,” is as much fun as the band’s earlier works and perhaps that blast of energy the music industry really needs. This has been a great two-year span for 80s fans; new projects from […]

On The Friday, 3/28 Revenge of the 80s Radio Show, my guest will be Rose McDowall of the band Strawberry Switchblade. A podcast will be available shortly after Friday’s show. After growing up in Glasgow, Rose became part of the UK Punk scene, where she was inspired to start her own band while watching The […]

{IMU_468_60} The podcast from our March 21st show is up; our interview with Tracey and Missy Belland of Voice of the Beehive starts the second hour. Tracey and Missy talk about their story, from their upbringing in a family of talented artists, including their father, Bruce Belland, best known as a member of The Four […]

{IMU_468_60} Tonight’s show will feature an interview with Tracey and Melissa Belland of Voice of the Beehive. Revenge of the 80s airs live every Friday night 7-9pm on Q99.1FM in Warwick, NY and www.revengeofthe80sradio.com A podcast will be available after the live show.

The star of one of the most memorized high school movies (probably one behind “Better Off Dead“) of the 1980s was born 45 years ago today. Matthew Broderick, who played the title role in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” celebrates his birthday. While Broderick was to star in a long string of movies throughout his career, […]

Rocker Joan Jett, whose career began with the 1970s girl-band “The Runaways,” hit #1 on this date in 1982 with her mainstream hit “I Love Rock and Roll.” Although this might have been my least favorite Jett tune (pre-“Hit List” of course), it showed the nation’s radio execs that women could rock without whining and […]

This Friday, 3/21/08, my guests will be Tracey Belland and Missy Belland of Voice of the Beehive. The interview will be during the show’s 2nd hour, and the podcast will be available after the show. In the interview, we talk about: How Tracey and Missy were discovered Their influences What VOTB songs were special to […]

Here is the podast of the first Revenge of the 80s Radio Show. We featured music from Bow Wow Wow, Berlin, Stan Ridgway, Voice of the Beehive, Divynils Madness, Strawberry Switchblade, The B-52s, INXS, Monte Video and the Cassettes and more…

Tonight is the first Revenge of the 80s broadcast and we’re chomping at the nose to get it going. It took some time to put the order together for our initial playlist, but the real question was: what will be the first song? Some might think that’s an easy question, but the first cut is […]

The B-52s will perform with 80s pop star Cyndi Lauper at the Original Woodstock Concert site (Bethel Woods, Sullican County, NY) on Saturday, June 14th, according to the center’s website.  The Band’s members shot footage for their late 1980s hit “Love Shack” in the Town of Woodstock, not to be confused with the Yasgur’s farm […]

We’re getting in gear for our premiere on Friday, March 14th. We will announce the first interviews we lined up in the coming days We will start posting regularly very soon, but in the meantime, you can now find some of those rare CDs of your favorite 80s artists as well as some of their […]

In one week, we will broadcast the first “Revenge of the 80s” Radio show in the Q99.1 FM studios in New York’s Hudson Valley. We premiere on Friday, March 14, 2008 7-9pm Eastern Time. If you are not in our terrestrial listening area, you can listen to the live webcast on the WTBQ website. A […]

 This is an interview with Voice of the Beehive’s Melissa Belland,. I spoke with her on another show I hosted on her new venture: “Made In Heaven By Missy” {IMU_468_60} She was a winner of last year’s Yahoo! “Ultimate Connection” Contest. Missy hand-crafts fairies and fairy products from her studio in Laguna Beach and her […]

February 20, 2008

While this site is still under construction,  check out some of our picks on the right column of this blog.  We will showcase some of the legendary artists of the 80s on the show and in this blog.  Keep checking as we build to our March 14th premiere!

This blog will feature all that is the 1980s  –  the music, the clothes, the styles and everything else that went on in that great decade.   We will re-review some of the bands and their CDs, as well as some of their current work.  In addition, we will discuss some of the old shows and the […]


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