Autumn Tour

Recently The Psychedelic Furs had finished the Spring tour and announced more shows also. The second part of the tour will start this Autumn, and it feels weird to me that The Furs will not tour in the Summer. I'm so used to them doing their usual Summer tours.

But I have some very great news to share with you all. On October 2 I will be seeing The Psychedelic Furs in Eugene, Oregon at the Silva Concert Hall, which is located at the Hult Center for the Performing Arts. This will be my fifth Psychedelic Furs show and my first concert in four years. Can't believe it's been that long...

I'm so excited about this concert because I can finally hear some of the Made Of Rain songs live and getting to see the new member of The Furs, Zachary Alford, on the drums.

Photo: Matthew Reeves

Since the tour will start in September it makes me wonder if Mars Williams will come back. I really hope he does, but I guess we'll see when the time comes. I hope he gets better so that he can go back to doing what he loves: touring with The Furs and playing the saxophone on stage.

Before I go, I want to say my blog has now reached over 15,000 views and I want to thank you all for reading my posts. I really appreciate it.

Mirror Moves Japanese Ad

I found this Japanese advert for Mirror Moves and it looks absolutely great.

World Outside Japanese Ad

Here is a cool looking advert for World Outside from Japan.

Update on Mars Williams

Photo: Matthew Reeves

Today I got an email from GoFundMe and it was a thank you note from Dave Rempis, who made the GoFundMe page for Mars Williams and is a friend of Mars. Dave sent this note to everyone who had contributed, and here's what he wrote:

"Dear friends,

I wanted to send out a most sincere note of gratitude to all who have supported this gofundme on behalf of Mars Williams. The number of folks who have contributed (almost 800 now!!!) and your generosity, has been truly extraordinary. Since the campaign launched one week ago, we've now reached 80% of the goal!

I saw Mars in person on Friday, and spoke more with him today, and he was beyond moved by the outpouring of support. Flabbergasted is perhaps the best word for it. I know that generosity and love is going to help him fight this disease as hard as he can, and it's also going to help remove one major cause of stress over the next months.

Thank you all again for your kindness and support, and please continue to spread the word! Let's hit that goal!!

All the best,

Dave Rempis"

It was absolutely nice of Dave sending this note to all of us who donated and it made me happy to hear how Mars felt about all this.

To Dave Rempis, if you see this post, I want to say thank you so much for your kind words and for everything you're doing to help Mars. I hope we will hit that goal as soon as possible, and that Mars will get all the help he needs. I hope he's still doing okay.

If this is the first time you heard about this GoFundMe and want to know what it's all about, I shared the link on my previous blog post. We must continue to spread the word and if you are able to help, please donate and share. 

Here's the link to my post that has the page: https://ontomorrowspages.blogspot.com/2023/05/for-mars-williams.html

For Mars Williams

Photo: Matthew Reeves

Recently The Psychedelic Furs started touring and people were posting photos of the first two shows on the Facebook fan page "For Fans of The Psychedelic Furs." I looked at the pictures and I noticed there was something missing. Mars Williams wasn't at those shows and I wondered if he was going to join them later during the tour. But sadly I heard some awful news today. I went on my Instagram and the first post to appear was from Rich Good. Rich posted a few pictures of him and Mars Williams together and Rich wrote that Mars is dealing with cancer... There was a link to a GoFundMe page although unfortunately Instagram doesn't allow you to click on links to websites. But The Psychedelic Furs had posted the link on their Twitter and Facebook accounts, and the GoFundMe is for Mars and was written by one of his friends in the music community. The friend wrote that last December Mars was diagnosed with ampullary cancer, a rare one in which a tumor develops near the bile duct and pancreas. In January he had major surgery and stayed three weeks at the hospital to recover, and in March started a six-month course of chemotherapy.

I am shocked and saddened to hear this because I admire Mars Williams for everything he did for The Psychedelic Furs, and to me he is the best saxophonist of all time. I love his work on Mirror Moves, Midnight To Midnight, and Made Of Rain, and I am glad I had the honor to see him in action when I saw The Furs live four times. My thoughts and prayers go out to Mars and I hope he will get all the help he needs to get better. Sending all my love and best wishes to him.

Here's the link to the GoFundMe page. Please share, donate, do everything you can to help Mars. https://www.gofundme.com/f/marswilliams?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_content=undefined&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer&utm_term=undefined

Here's one of my favorite photos that I took of Mars Williams and Rich Good back in 2016.

Photo by me.

Edit: Since I am working now I donated to Mars' GoFundMe. I'm glad I was able to help him. <3

5/8/2023 Update: I published a follow-up to this post: https://ontomorrowspages.blogspot.com/2023/05/update-on-mars-williams.html

6/23/2023 Update: Here's the second update about Mars: https://ontomorrowspages.blogspot.com/2023/06/update-on-mars-williams-2.html