Word: orpheum
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...Santana isn't your speed, also on Friday night is the finals of the WBCN Rock Rumble in the Orpheum Theatre, Hamilton Place, Boston at 7:30 p.m., where some of Boston's baddest local bands will battle out for the championship...
Across the street from the Common shows is the Orpheum Theater which has a fairly meager line-up this summer compared to previous seasons. Local rock bands will compete there this Friday June 28 and ex-Magazine leader, Howard Jones, will highlight the Saturday June 29 show...
Depeche Mode's rare appearance at the Orpheum a few months back was a pretty depressing affair if you weren't looking for a high school pick-up. With most of the musical action programmed into the array of synthesizers and organs, vocalist Gore was left prancing about like a second-string Rod Stewart, with material that could never approach the Rod's exquisitely terrible haunchraunch. The rest of the band was strapped to their machinery, tapping out melodies with one, two, and sometimes even three fingers. Depeche Mode gave good beat, but in a frenetic concert atmosphere pumped...
Until then, the place to be will be the Orpheum Theater, which will feature a steady stream of popular progressive bands, starting with King Crimson (July 5) and psychedelic Furs (July 18), and R.E.M. (July...
Several other places deserve mention as well. The Orpheum, a first-rate hall for about 3000, is bringing the Tubes and Joan Armatrading to town. And there's series of open-air concerts on the Boston Common, including Chicago, Linda Ronstadt, and a not to be missed evening with Mr. "Sexual Healing" himself, Marvin Gaye. And down near the beach at the Cape Cod Glesium huge sweat that it is, Elvis Costello is scheduled for August. Tickets have been on sale for a few months, so you may well be out of luck But if you cross your fingers...