Electronic music pioneer Howard Jones has been a constant presence on the international touring scene for the past four decades, playing live in a number of different configurations, including intimate solo shows and dates with his full high-tech band set-up. He first burst upon the contemporary music scene in 1983, with his very English songwriting and pioneering synthesizers with “New Song”. His first two albums, “HUMAN’S LIB” and “DREAM INTO ACTION,” were worldwide hits. “HUMAN’S LIB” reached #1 in 1984 in the UK and featured the hits “New Song,” and “What Is Love?” In 1985, Jones released the follow-up, “DREAM INTO ACTION,” which quickly became a Top Ten Platinum album in the United States and featured the smashes: “Things Can Only Get Better,” “Life In One Day,” “No One Is To Blame,” and “Like To Get To Know You Well.”

Howard Jones has sold upwards of 10 million albums worldwide and continues to make new music and tour the world. Jones has performed on NBC’s top-rated morning and nighttime shows, respectively, “Today” and “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” His ubiquitous hits can be heard in such high-profile television series and films as “Stranger Things,” “Breaking Bad,” “Watchmen,” “The Carrie Diaries”, “Superstore,” and “Bumblebee”. Howard Jones’ most recent album is “DIALOGUE,” which was released in September 2022. “DIALOGUE” is the third album in a trilogy of electronic releases from Jones, with multi-media project ENGAGE coming out in 2015 and studio album “TRANSFORM” out in 2019. “DIALOGUE” garnered serious coverage in outlets such as Spin, Stereogum, and more.

ABOUT HAIRCUT 100

Of all pop’s shining, fiery comets, Haircut 100 burnt brightly, gave off heat, changed the landscape, and then, as fast as they appeared, were gone, leaving many happy memories.

For 18 months or so in the early 1980s, Haircut did their thing. They were led by irrepressible songsmith, lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Nick Heyward with South London’s Stanley Clarke, Les Nemes, on the bass. Adding Graham Jones, on lead guitar, and then, Memphis-born Blair Cunningham – a man who had lived several lifetimes by the age of 24 – on drums, the group charmed both press and public with their oblique-yet-everyman lyrics, brisk funk, and sunshine pop. Who can forget songs as joyous and memorable as "Fantastic Day," "Love Plus One," and "Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)" and the accompanying album, the mighty, flirty and flighty "Pelican West." "Pelican West" was already platinum-certified in the UK only three months after release. The album spent 11 consecutive weeks in the British Top 10 and twice reached No. 2. It also charted in the US, Australia and beyond.

ABOUT RICHARD BLADE

Richard Blade is one of the most popular and best-known DJs in America, and hosts a daily radio show on both SiriusXM 1st Wave Ch. 33 and middays on KCBS, Jack FM.

Richard was born in England, educated at Oxford, and after touring Europe for two years as a DJ, moved to the United States. In the 1980s he was the top-rated morning drive DJ on KROQ, Los Angeles, and hosted and directed numerous TV shows and series, including "Video One," "MV3," and "VideoBeat." Other notable radio stations Richard worked at included KMGN, Bakersfield (morning drive & program director), KZOZ, San Luis Obispo (morning drive and program director), KNAC, Long Beach (evenings), and KYSR, Los Angeles (evenings). In 1991 he created, with Andy Schuon and Lewis Largent, "Richard Blade’s Flashback Lunch," which aired daily at noon and was copied by many stations across North America. It also spawned a series of six CDs on Sony Music, "Richard Blade’s Flashback Favorites."