Thoughts With The Furs

Sorry if this post is super short but I went on Facebook today and The Psychedelic Furs announced that they had to sadly cancel their last two shows in Germany due to a medical issue. I am worried right now and I really hope with all my heart it isn't anything serious. My thoughts go out to the band and I hope they are doing okay. Sending all my love to them.

10/27/2019 Update: Today on Facebook The Psychedelic Furs thanked everyone for coming to the European shows and said that they will be back soon. Rich Good also posted the same thing on his Instagram, and from reading the posts it didn't sound like anything major happened (thank goodness) but I hope they are still okay and getting a bunch of rest. On both The Furs' and Rich's posts they said 2020 will be a big year for the band and I got excited when I saw that. I wish The Psychedelic Furs all the best for next year.

Heaven TV Performance

In 1984 The Psychedelic Furs appeared on BBC2's Oxford Roadshow and they performed their song "Heaven," which became The Furs' first hit single in Britain. On this performance the music is from the studio recording but Richard Butler's vocals were definitely live. One day I watched it on YouTube and my favorite part was at the end when Richard smiled. He has such a lovely smile. <3

Here is the video.

New Album Update #5

Hearing information about The Psychedelic Furs' new album is like finding buried treasure, and here is yet another British article about the new album! Tim Butler was interviewed again and he described what the music on the new album will be like. I remember a year ago in an interview Tim said that the new music will still be The Furs but more modern. On this article Tim talked about the music and he said this which got me excited:

"I'd put [the new music] somewhere between Forever Now and Talk Talk Talk. It's more, I'd say, rock 'n' roll than we'd become with World Outside or Book Of Days."

https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/whats-on/entertainment/psychedelic-furs-we-re-re-energised-and-reinvigorated-1-10031428

New Album Update #4

I found another article from the UK that was published five days ago and it has a great interview with Tim Butler. He talked about the new album and he said it will be released hopefully in the Spring of 2020! Other topics include England, America, Midnight To Midnight, bands influenced by The Furs, PFurs songs in recent media, fans, and The Furs getting back together.

https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/the-psychedelic-furs-talk-about-their-first-new-album-in-28-years-ahead-of-playing-at-the-pyramids-southsea-big-interview-1-9087366

New Album Update #3

I heard some great updates about The Psychedelic Furs' new album but before I go any further I have disappointing news. On my last post which talked about "Just Like Rain," the new song, someone commented and she said that she found a live stream of the Virginia Beach concert (where "Just Like Rain" was played). She said that the new song was never even played at all, and I was speechless, confused. Why did the setlist say "Just Like Rain" was debuted live, even though it never happened?? I even checked the setlist for The Furs' concert in Manchester, England which happened tonight but there was no "Just Like Rain." The Virginia Beach setlist got my hopes up and I had been tricked all that time. I'm really devastated, but I just want to let you all know about the real results. Hopefully someone will update the Virginia Beach setlist and remove that "new" song.

But to end things on a happy note, let's get right to the new album! The same person who commented on my post said on Twitter she found an article from the UK that talked about The Psychedelic Furs' new album. The article said that The Furs are thinking of doing a second follow up to the new album! I looked for the article on Twitter and sadly I couldn't find it, although I found a different one from Stereogum back in July. It mentioned the new album and it said that The Psychedelic Furs had been signed to a new record label, Cooking Vinyl. I wish I could find that UK article though, because I want to read it so bad.

I'm absolutely excited about the new album, and I wonder if The Psychedelic Furs will really come out with another one! If they are, then that would mean two new albums and more new songs! How exciting is that?!


Update: Here's the link to the UK article. Huge thanks to Gail for finding this. http://nevolume.co.uk/music/interviews/the-psychedelic-furs-o2-academy-newcastle/

Another New Song?*

On the 28th three nights ago The Psychedelic Furs performed their last US show at Virginia Beach, VA and right now they are back in the UK. After when they performed that night I checked out the setlist for that concert. During that time there were only three or four songs and one of them was called "Just Like Rain." I had a feeling the person who updated the list didn't know what "The Ghost In You" was called and so titled it "Just Like Rain" (hence the line in "The Ghost In You" "Ain't it just like rain?"). When I saw the title it made me kind of cringe to be honest.

A day later I looked at the same setlist and it was updated again. It had all of the songs ("The Ghost In You" included) but "Just Like Rain" was on there. I thought maybe someone must have forgotten to remove that title and just left it there. Tonight I checked again and when I looked "Just Like Rain" was still there, but under the title it says in parentheses "live debut."

Can it be...? No way.

I was thrilled, and I couldn't believe The Furs performed another new song! I knew they would, and it makes me excited to think since they performed two new songs the new album will probably be released very soon! I eagerly searched for "Just Like Rain" on YouTube to see if someone recorded the song from the Virginia Beach show and there were only three songs, but sadly no "Just Like Rain." I want to hear it so much. I hope The Furs will perform that song again during their first concert in England which starts tonight over there.

So, "Just Like Rain" wasn't the incorrect title for "The Ghost In You!" It is most likely a brand new song!

Here's the setlist for the Virginia Beach concert. I'll update this post if and when someone uploads the performance of "Just Like Rain" on YouTube. Hopefully from either the UK or European shows. https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-psychedelic-furs/2019/31st-street-stage-virginia-beach-va-439c1fbf.html


*Update: Well, about "Just Like Rain" unfortunately it's not a new song after all. I wrote a new post about it and please go to this link to find out more: https://ontomorrowspages.blogspot.com/2019/10/new-album-update-3.html