Tears For Fears/ABC - The Spitfire Ground, Canterbury 23.06.2019 Live Review
At the KCCC, ABC and TFF came to delight a 5K audience. Two days south of the summer solstice, on a warm but cloudy evening, at the home of Kent's county cricket team, Tears For Fears, ABC and Max Restaino played upon a stage set up on the historic Spitfire Ground cricket pitch.
After entertaining the Forest Live crowd in Delamere on Friday, and prior to taking their 'Rule The World Tour' over to Europe, Tears For Fears made the trip down to Kent to join fellow 80s band ABC. The double header of much loved acts on the same bill brought out the nostalgic, the curious, the super fans and a much larger proportion than expected of those that clearly could not have been born when both bands were formed, or even had their biggest hits.
Prior to Tears For Fears or ABC taking to the stage it was the turn of Max Restiano to entertain the gathering crowd. In his double white shredded denim, white t-shirt and white hi-tops he looked like he was channelling some sort of retro Peter Andre look, minus the ripped abs. With repeated dance 'moves' that may, or may not, have been learnt on an arcade dance machine, and some pumped up posturing it was a little hard to take him too seriously. In between asking the audience if they were OK and still OK after every other song, he did get the crowd's attention with covers of Elton's 'Your Song' and the Beatles 'Hey Jude' mid-set, as well as some of his own compositions. 'Sugar Rush', 'Girl Of My Dreams' and an impressive sax solo at the end of 'More Than Life' ensured that Max got a warm reception in Canterbury.
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