Italian Concert Review 1984

On June 10, 1984 The Psychedelic Furs performed at a venue in Bari, Italy during the Mirror Moves tour, and a review of that show was published in some newspaper. I found the review on an Italian website and I had to use Google Translate to see what it was saying. I did the best that I could to translate it so here's the English version of the review. Originally written by Marcello Nitti.

Puglian Weather for The Psychedelic Furs

The Psychedelic Furs have landed in Puglia, performing an impeccable concert in the municipal field of Triggiano (Bari).

The Butler brothers group was expected with impatience given the constant increase of aficionados of the group and criticism almost always positive that the world press has always reserved for them.

The show has been a compendium of their career, from "Love My Way", "Pretty In Pink", "Sister Europe", "President Gas", "Heaven", "Imitation Of Christ", and concluded with "Into You Like A Train" and "India". In summary they performed sixteen songs comprising "Angels", an unpublished [song], garnering acclaim from the audience present. [This part is funny to me because the reviewer said "Angels" is an unreleased track. It was actually "Only You And I" from Forever Now, and "Angels" was the working title of that song.]

Richard Butler was accompanied by his brother Tim on bass, John Ashton on guitar and by four other friends playing keyboards respectively, and drums, second guitar and horns.

A concert of good rock music, where the focus was all facing Richard which with his hoarse voice has given an unmistakable timbre to the sound of The Psychedelic Furs.

This Italian tour allowed The P.F. to promote their last album Mirror Moves which comes out at almost two years away from the excellent Forever Now and to be known to a wider audience.

After carefully listening to Mirror Moves, at least two tracks are striking for immediacy and warmth, "The Ghost In You" and "Heaven", which have now reached a high level of composition.

Carrying on is "My Time" which encloses ethereal atmospheres, then the still hard "Heartbeat", which the "extended" published version made the rounds of discotheques, perhaps the least typical song of the group. With "Alice's House", "Like A Stranger" and "Highwire Days", Richard Butler sings with hoarse passion and stays there to those days that preceded moments of crisis, those days that are like a rope placed there to help you up the hill to embrace the sun.

Marcello Nitti