The 80’s Club featuring Honeymoon Suite, Aldo Nova and Men Without Hats

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EVENT DETAILS

All Ages – Reserved Seating

Date: Friday, March 8

Doors: 6:30 PM | Show: 8:00 PM

Cost: $49.00 – $79.00 (Plus applicable fees)

Due to unforeseen circumstances, A Flock of Seagulls can no longer perform on Friday, March 8th at the Grey Eagle Event Centre. The 80’s Club welcomes Canadian rock artist Aldo Nova in their place and is looking forward to an incredible night of ’80s anthems and classic hits!

ABOUT THIS EVENT

Relive the best of ’80s music with some of the most notable bands from the decade. The 80’s Club features performances by Honeymoon Suite, Aldo Nova and Men Without Hats. Get your tickets for Friday, March 8th at the Event Centre at Grey Eagle Resort & Casino.

HONEYMOON SUITE

Johnnie Dee and Derry Grehan, the principal and founding members of Honeymoon Suite, met when introduced by manager Stephen Prendergast in 1982. Deciding to work together, they formed Honeymoon Suite with Grehan’s former Steve Blimkie And The Reason’s band-mate Dave Betts on drums, plus an anonymous keyboard player and bassist.

In 1983, they decided to enter the Homegrown Contest put on yearly by Toronto’s Q107-FM radio station so Prendergast approached his friend and producer Tom Treumuth to produce a song for them. Based on the buying public’s response, “New Girl Now” won the contest and Bob Roper at WEA Canada was so impressed with the song and response that he signed the band right away.

Propelled by the success of more singles from the album, 1985 saw the band begin to headline gigs throughout Ontario and the rest of Canada. A highlight was the presentation of an award at the 1985 Junos. By this time the first album had achieved platinum sales status. Almost 22 years later the album has now sold over 400,000 units in Canada alone.

The trio returned to the studio in 1990 to craft Monsters Under The Bed with Paul Northfield producing. The album featured Steve Webster (from Billy Idol’s band) on bass and Jorn Anderson on drums. Singles like “Say You Don’t Know Me” and “The Road” did well in Canada. Some US success did come their way as songs got placed on TV’s Miami Vice and two movie soundtracks, Lethal Weapon II and One Crazy Summer.

ALDO NOVA

After four decades, dozens of classic songs, and hundreds of shows, multi-platinum GRAMMY® Award-winning singer, songwriter, producer, guitarist, and multi-instrumentalist Aldo Nova can finally be seen alive and kicking after a long self-imposed hiatus.

Aldo Nova took the world by storm when his first multi-platinum, top ten self-titled debut album, Aldo Nova, gave the world the definitive rock anthem “Fantasy.” On its heels came the platinum-selling Subject…Aldo Nova yielded another massive anthem, “Monkey on Your Back.” He made his third and last album, titled Twitch, for Portrait Records, a division of CBS Records, (now called Sony Music) when the executives at the record company wanted to take creative control and forced Aldo to do songs that he didn’t write. This led Aldo to go back to Montreal to wait until CBS let him out of his contract. He started to write jingles for companies such as Coca-Cola, Chrysler, Air Canada, and more, earning him the TBA Award for writing one of the top ten jingles in the world that year. Five years later, Sony Music finally released Aldo Nova from his contractual obligations towards them, and at that point, he was finally able to move on. He made his next album, ‘Blood on the Bricks,’ with Jon Bon Jovi., which was written and produced by both of them.

MEN WITHOUT HATS

Canadian new wave/synth pop group featuring original front man Ivan Doroschuk, Lou Dawson and Rachel Ashmore on keys, and guitarist Sho Murray.

Known for the hits “The Safety Dance” (#3 on Billboard Hot 100) and “Pop Goes the World.” Men Without Hats returned to the spotlight in 2011 with a breakout show at SXSW culminating a hiatus of 20+ years. The seventh studio album Love in the Age of War (2012) was followed by extensive, well-received tours throughout North America and across the world in the years since.