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Tears For Fears Schedule 2023 Dates for ‘the Tipping Point Tour Part II’

By Larisha Paul

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Tears For Fears are returning for another slate of shows in support of their latest album, The Turning Point , released last year as their first full-length record in 17 years. The Tipping Point Tour wrapped in New York on June 25, but the newly-announced The Tipping Point Tour Part II will pick up more or less where they left off, in New Jersey on June 23.

Cold War Kids will join Tears For Fears on the new set of North American tour dates. The tour’s second leg is scheduled to begin on June 23 and conclude on Aug. 2 in Los Angeles. In between, the band will make stops in New York, Toronto, Virginia Beach, Franklin, Houston, Denver, Portland, Seattle, Palm Springs, and more.

General sale for the Tipping Point Tour Part II begins Friday, April 7 at 10 a.m. local time via the official Tears For Fears website .

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Roland Orzabal added, “The Tipping Point has been a long time in the making and we are looking forward to playing our favorites from the new album as well as our classics from throughout the years.”

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Roland Orzabal knew that he and Tears for Fears partner Curt Smith had something special with their seventh album.

“The Tipping Point,” released in February, not only marked the band’s first release in 17 years , but its poignant songs of loss and healing solidified the profound chemistry between the pair.

“I think our partnership is rooted in our friendship,” Orzabal, 60, tells USA TODAY.

The guitarist/singer is reflecting on the past seven years of his life, which included a failed attempt by Tears for Fears’ previous management to coerce the duo to write with current hitmakers and Orzabal – reeling from the 2017 death of his wife of 35 years, Caroline – completing his second rehab stay in Colorado.

“By the end of 2019, I just knew when we tried everything and I’d been through the mill emotionally that the way forward lay in just the two of us,” he says from Los Angeles, where he and Smith are prepping for their Friday tour kickoff in Cincinnati. “I don’t know what it was, an inner voice telling me this was really important, maybe? I was so confident that I would get together with Curt with no one else involved – no democracy, no teams, just the two of us – and I had this really crazy sense that he would provide a spark. And he did.”

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Many of the songs on “The Tipping Point” – the title track, “Please Be Happy,” “Rivers of Mercy” among them – are emotion-soaked contemplations about crawling out of bleakness and seeking contentment. Not all of them will fit cozily on their set list amid such lush fan favorites as “Sowing the Seeds of Love,” “Mad World,” “Head Over Heels” and omnipresent ‘80s essentials “Shout” and “Everybody Wants to Rule the World.”

Tears for Fears’ live shows typically include about 17 songs, and Orzabal says the coming tour, which runs through June 25 with Garbage opening , will probably land at about 20 offerings. Some of the more sensitive new material, such as “Please Be Happy,” won’t be performed (“That one is too close to the bone,” Orzabal says). But it’s currently “Rivers of Mercy” that he’s fretting about learning for a live audience.

“(That song) has so much peace and forgiveness in it," he says. "But we’re in the business of communicating emotions through music. There’s nothing wrong with being vulnerable – there’s a strength in it. I make a fool of myself all the time, anyway. We did a Q&A thing in London, and I wound up bawling my eyes out. Ultimately, it’s about connection and this beautiful glue that bypasses the rational part of the brain and weaves a trail to your heart.”

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Even in the years that Tears for Fears spent sidelined, their music never disappeared from public consciousness due to other artists’ ongoing infatuation with their songs – one in particular.

“‘Everybody Wants to Rule the World’ feels like it doesn’t belong to us anymore,” Orzabal says, with wonder rather than bitterness in his voice. “It’s just a great song and so many people play it so well. The Weezer cover – how did they make it sound like Weezer? And Lorde’s cover is incredible, like what Gary Jules did with ‘Mad World.’”

Orzabal continues in an effusive tone.

“An artist called Brothertiger covered all of (1985’s) ‘Songs From the Big Chair’ – the whole album!” he says. “That is brilliant. I think we might have to play his versions before we go on stage. His ‘Mothers Talk’ is better than ours.”

Orzabal, who remarried last year and says he “moved from being plagued by the past to being open to a new future,” isn’t sure what Tears for Fears will do following their U.S. tour and a summer run through the U.K., but he knows that continued promotion of “The Tipping Point” is a priority.

“We’re keen to see what this album does,” he says, recognizing something special when he feels it. 

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From 'The Hurting' to the healing: How family tragedy inspired Tears for Fears' astounding comeback album

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Nearly 40 years ago, British new wave duo Tears for Fears released The Hurting , an opus “very much influenced by a Californian psychologist called Arthur Janov and his primal scream therapy” that “obviously was about our childhoods,” the band’s Roland Orzabal tells Yahoo Entertainment/ SiriusXM Volume . Now Orzabal and his Tears for Fears partner Curt Smith , both age 60, are releasing their first studio album in 17 years, The Tipping Point , and it’s a companion piece of sorts to The Hurting — and just as impactful, if not more so.

While The Hurting trafficked in adolescent angst, The Tipping Point harrowingly examines the trauma of adulthood and middle-age, with much of the record inspired by the tragic death of Orzabal’s wife of more than 35 years. “I mean, we couldn't have made The Tipping Point when we were kids,” Orzabal, looking like wise prophet with his long silver hair and beard, says softly. “But the wonderful thing about where we are now is you see two lives lived — not two lives in potential. I feel honored, kind of blessed, to be… well, not a granddaddy , but more of an uncle. You know, an elder-in-the-tribe kind of thing.”

Orzabal met his first wife, Caroline, when they were teenagers in Bath, England, and they married in 1982. However, when she hit menopause in 2007, she lapsed into depression, for which she was prescribed medication that was not supposed to be taken with alcohol. Caroline continued to drink and her mental state worsened, and she eventually developed alcohol-related dementia; Roland then became her caregiver for the next five years. In 2017, Caroline died while Tears for Fears — who still toured regularly, despite having not released a full album since their underrated 2004 reunion LP Everybody Loves a Happy Ending — were on the road with Hall & Oates. Tears for Fears canceled weeks of tour dates, and Roland later did time in rehab himself as he grieved.

Many of the songs Roland wrote during this fraught period formed The Tipping Point , and the tragedy brought Orzabal and Smith, who had gone their separate ways musically from 1991 to 2004, closer than ever before. After all, Smith had been there from the very beginning.

“Curt and I, we met Caroline at the same time. We were 13 or 14. We used to hang out together in the Snow Hill flats where Curt lived in Bath and we'd be drinking cider illegally, getting completely wasted on a Saturday night,” Orzabal recalls with a chuckle. “I remember my first date with Caroline, my wife of 36 years; my first date with her was at some street disco, everyone smuggling in alcohol. And I remember she climbed up a pole because she was absolutely drunk. And I should have known then that maybe alcohol was going to be a bit of a problem! But I didn't.

“So, the question is, why did [Caroline’s illness and death] bring us together?” Orzabal continues. “I think it's quite natural when you see someone you've known for all these years go through something pretty traumatic. Of course there was a period where I was noncommunicative, in denial, and a royal pain in the ass. So, I had to do a lot of work. I did a lot of grief work. In a sense, I’d gone through a little of what Caroline had gone through with alcohol, psychoactive drugs, and stuff like that. But the difference is, I came out the other side, and after the rehab I was worth talking to again! Oh, I sound like a nut, but who cares? Anyway, I got to a point where I had a new relationship with a wonderful woman called Emily Rath. And I suppose the whole process for me was reconnecting to the heart, if you like. The heart that had been that had grown cold, that had been trampled on, suddenly opened up, and then I could relate to Curt again.”

“There is a certain redemption to this, in that we've come out the other side of it,” Smith muses, noting that The Tipping Point isn’t a traditional grief album in the sense of Neil Young’s Tonight’s the Night , the Eels’ Electro-Shock Blues , or Nick Cave’s Ghosteen . “I don't think this album would've come out if that's all it was about; if it was just about [death], it would be an album about confusion. … We're using personal experience — of personal loss , in Roland's case — and relating that to what's going on outside, realizing: ‘Look, I've come through this. We can come through that.’ And really, it's that redemption that you're looking for. If you listen to a song like ‘Rivers of Mercy,’ which basically talks about release and redemption and a desire for that, it's more of a healing album than anything else.”

It was Orzabal’s current wife, the above-mentioned writer/photographer Emily Rath, whom Orzabal married in April 2021, that encouraged Tears for Fears to make music again. Their record label’s powers-that-be suggested that Orzabal and Smith — artists who’d sold more than 30 million albums globally, and had charted seven top 40 hits and two No. 1’s in the United States alone — work with outside songwriters-for-hire. Orzabal says understatedly says that was “kind of strange.”

“We initially started [making a new album] at the behest of probably other people, and to be honest, we went along with it because I don't think we knew what we wanted to do,” Smith confesses. “I don't think we'd found the answer yet. So, we started doing all these of writing sessions with what would be considered modern pop kind of songwriters and producers. And after a period of doing that over a few years, we were left with 20 to 30 attempts at writing a modern hit single, none of which really stuck with us. … But after all that Roland was going through during that period of time, I think when we sat down eventually and started to communicate again honestly, we realized that there are subjects that have far more depth that we should be writing about.”

Along with Orzabal’s personal and marital struggles, The Tipping Point ’s lyrics also focus on the larger struggles going on around the world. “When we started writing, it was just before the first lockdown of the pandemic in the beginning of 2020. But outside of that, we'd been through the Black Lives Matter movement. We've been through the #MeToo movement. Obviously climate change is getting to a critical point. There’s the rise of the right-wing worldwide, politically, Donald Trump in America, the attempted overthrow of the us government. I mean, there's a lot of subject matter,” says Smith. “It is still an ongoing concern, you know? I mean, there will be another election in America in two years’ time, and the way it's looking right now, you could end up with the dictators here; it would not be surprising to me. That still concerns me now. So, that was the sort of genesis of the album. And we needed to mine all these issues: ‘ This is what we should be writing about.’ And once we got to that point, it became far easier.”

So many prescient songs from Tears for Fears’ career have tapped into the Zeitgeist and commented on current events — “Everybody Wants to Rule the World,” “Shout,” “Woman in Chains,” and “Sowing the Seeds of Love,” to name but a few. But of course it is “Mad World” — which wasn’t even a hit in America in 1982, but has since reached younger audiences through covers by Gary Jules and American Idol ’s Adam Lambert — that has truly stood the test of time.

“You make a statement like that, and you honestly think at the time that no one's going to listen, no one's going to understand it,” says Orzabal. “And yet, it's a hardy perennial. It keeps coming back, and keeps coming back. Obviously it was our first hit in England [where it peaked at No. 3] and it means a lot to us, but I think when Michael Andrew and Gary Jules did their version [which was featured in Donnie Darko ], we were shocked by the lyrics and how brutally honest they were. We kind of hid it all under layers and layers of electronica, with an uptempo beat that you could dance to, but they exposed the whole lyric.”

“We played the Bonnaroo festival, which is primarily much younger festival, in 2017, and the audience was really 18-to-25 year-olds. And every member of this audience was singing all the lyrics to the songs from The Hurting ,” Smith marvels. “And then you sit back and you realize, ‘Oh yeah, they're all the age we were when we released that record and when that record was written.’ So, they relate to that lyrically.”

And so, the music of Tears for Fears — from two very different yet turbulent periods of Orzabal and Smith’s lives, spaced out by several decades — continues to resonate. “There's one thing being traumatized as a child, because that's where you are at your most vulnerable; life isn't always a bowl of cherries, and bad things do happen,” Orzabal says. “Bad things happen to adults too, when someone you love, and have loved for decades, dies. That's going to change you. It will change to profoundly. And that's what happened here. So, we found ourselves in a situation where we are having to really look in inside, plumb the depths of our psyche and our being again… and find ourselves closer than we had being probably since the start of Tears for Fears. We have the balance on this album [ The Tipping Point ] — my singing and Curt’s singing mirror mimics very much the balance on The Hurting , and also my reliance on Curt during that period of The Hurting mirrors my reliance on Curt during this period. So, it's quite strange. But I don't think it's a coincidence.”

Orzabal continues, looking back on the ups and downs of his friendship with Smith and his life in general: “I think the message of this album is you can move through things. You have to move through things, or else you are dead,” And we got to a point on this album where you can start to feel and sense the healing in the music. And that is huge, because when you're in the middle of things, whether it's grief or some sort of addiction or anything like that, you don't see a way forward. But for anyone who is going through a particularly bad time and your life is spiraling out of control, if you do surrender, that's the point at which the answers start to come.”

And so, what answers did Orzabal and Smith ultimately glean from making The Tipping Point ?

“Obviously, connectivity and valuing the people around you, and trusting them and relying on them — not just being isolationists,” Orzabal says.

Smith adds: “And that you can't do it on your own.”

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The above interview is taken from Tears for Fears' appearance on the SiriusXM show “ Volume West .” Full audio of that conversation is available on demand via the SiriusXM app.

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Tears for Fears Announce 2023 North American Tour

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Tears for Fears are heading out on a summer tour of North America. The Tipping Point Tour Part II kicks off in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on June 23, and wraps up six weeks later in Los Angeles. Cold War Kids will support on all dates.

Tears for Fears returned in 2021, announcing The Tipping Point —their first album in 17 years—and explaining that “before everything went so right with this album, everything first had to go wrong. It took years, but something happens when we put our heads together.” They began touring the record last year, playing shows with Alison Moyet and Garbage.

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06-23 Atlantic City, NJ - Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena 06-24 Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun Arena 06-26 New York, NY - Madison Square Garden 06-29 Toronto, Ontario - Budweiser Stage 06-30 Montreal, Quebec - Place Bell 07-02 Saratoga Springs, NY - Saratoga Performing Arts Center 07-05 Bethel, NY - Bethel Woods Center for the Arts 07-07 Virginia Beach, VA - Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheatre 07-08 Raleigh, NC - Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek 07-11 Franklin, TN - FirstBank Amphitheater 07-13 St. Louis, MO - Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre STL 07-14 Kansas City, MO - Starlight Theatre 07-16 Houston, TX - Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion 07-17 Austin, TX - Moody Center 07-20 Denver, CO - Ball Arena 07-22 Portland, OR - RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater 07-24 Vancouver, British Columbia - Pepsi Live at Rogers Arena 07-26 Bend, OR - Hayden Homes Amphitheater 07-27 Seattle, WA - Climate Pledge Arena 07-29 Sacramento, CA - Toyota Amphitheater 08-01 Palm Springs, CA - Acrisure Arena 08-02 Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Bowl

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CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio – Tears for Fears has performed in Northeast Ohio multiple times since its glorious 1980s heyday. But Saturday night at Blossom Music Center felt different.

The band – comprised of founding members Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith – released “The Tipping Point” in February. The album marked Tears’ first studio effort of new material in 17 years. Orzabal and Smith, along with their fantastic touring band, embraced material from “The Tipping Point” during Saturday’s setlist, removing any conjecture that this was some sort of nostalgia tour.

After a weather delay, the band kicked off its set with “No Small Thing,” the second single from a new album that’s been proclaimed Tears for Fears’ best effort since 1989′s “The Seeds of Love.” And fittingly, this is the best Tears for Fears has sounded in years.

The low-key sounds of “No Small Thing” transitioned into eerie, yet majestic vibes of “The Tipping Point.” You got the feeling that if Tears for Fears wanted to simply play its new album all the way through, the experience would offer its own unique pleasures. But this is a band that’s always been a natural crowd pleaser.

“Everybody Wants to Rule the World” arrived just three songs in. The track’s unmistakable opening chords brought a roar from the crowd at Blossom that was huddled tight in the pavilion due to the threat of thunderstorms.

Some might consider it a bold move to pull out your biggest hit so early in a set. But even on the second night of this tour (Tears for Fears kicked things off at Cincinnati’s Riverbend Music Center on Friday), Orzabal and Smith were brimming with confidence.

Smith’s vocals on “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” sounded every bit as fantastic as they did 37 years ago. For a band that mastered the art of 1980s new wave and synth-pop bombast, Tears for Fears’ songs have always – somewhat shockingly – felt more vigorous in a live setting.

And Saturday was no different. “Sowing the Seeds of Love” felt like a campfire singalong on steroids. “Break the Man” radiated with raw emotion. The attention to detail could be felt at every turn, from the vocal interplay on “Suffer the Children” and “Woman in Chains” (where backing singer Carina Round threatened to steal the show) to the go-for-broke swagger of “Break It Down Again” and “Head Over Heels.”

The night’s highlight was one of the band’s most popular songs, but also the shortest of the night. “Mad World” has been covered time and time again ( some might argue occasionally to greater effect than the original ). But Tears for Fears continues to own its power with Smith delivering a surging and urgent vocal that took everyone’s breath away.

Tears for Fears’ amazing show capped what began as a dreary night. Rain poured down early, leading to a shelter-in-place recommendation from Blossom Music Center. Tailgate parties were forced inside cars at the venue’s parking lots, before fans scurried to the pavilion with umbrellas and ponchos.

But the delay had its benefits. Opening act Garbage took the stage 45 minutes later than planned. Scottish frontwoman Shirley Manson arrived a bit subdued. But her demeanor perked up when she saw the size of the crowd, which Mason won over with the sounds of “Stupid Girl’ and her animated performance on “Wicked Ways.”

By the time Garbage broke into its signature song “Only Happy When It Rains,” the crowd at Blossom had come alive, pounding its fists to the sound of Butch Vig’s drums. Manson became flustered during a standing ovation. Perhaps it was the gravity of the moment for a band whose electronic leanings drew influence from Tears for Fears.

“This is a big deal for us,” said Manson of Garbage’s opening slot on the tour.

It was a big deal for everyone in attendance, which ranged in age from small children to Millennials to older fans who clearly -- at no time in their life -- ever stopped listening to Tears for Fears’ first few albums.

The band’s encore Saturday night began with newbie “End of the Night” (only the second time Tears has played the track live) and ended with a roaring version of “Shout.” It was a clear indication that while Tears for Fears could coast on its hits for years to come, this is a band that has a lot more left to offer.

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Tears for Fears Announce 2022 U.S. Tour

Tears for Fears will set out on an expansive nationwide tour in 2022 in support of their new album The Tipping Point .

“We couldn’t be more excited to start playing concerts again," Tears for Fears co-founder Curt Smith said in a news release. "We’ve missed seeing our friends on the road around the world, and the energy of performing live."

Bandmate Roland Orzabal added: “ The Tipping Point has been a long time in the making and we are looking forward to playing our favorites from the new album as well as our classics from throughout the years.”

The tour kicks off on May 20 in Cincinnati, roughly three years since the band’s most recent stateside performance, which took place in 2019 at the Shaky Knees festival in Atlanta. Tears for Fears' 2022 trek, which will feature support from Garbage, is currently scheduled to run through June 25.

A complete list of tour dates can be viewed below.

“I’m very much looking forward to it,” Smith shared during an exclusive conversation with UCR. “Particularly, because we now get to add new songs, which we haven’t been able to do for a long time. That makes it all the more exciting. The same way I get a kick out of putting together the running order on an album, putting together a running order live is great and a little terrifying at first – because you never know.”

Smith admits there may be some early growing pains as Tears for Fears integrates new songs on stage. “Normally, you don’t actually get a workable set until a few dates in,” he explained. “So, if you come to the beginning, it should be interesting. We’re flying by the seat of our pants because, you know, what sounds good to us in rehearsal, you don’t know – you never know until you’re in front of an audience. You never know what the response is going to be.”

Due on Feb. 25, The Tipping Point marks the first album in 17 years for Tears for Fears, best-known for such ‘80s classics as “Mad World,” “ Shout ,” “ Head Over Heels ” and “ Everybody Wants to Rule the World .” Smith said the group has been reenergized by the new material.

“This album, I think, is wonderful,” Smith says. “Normally when we finish records, I’m kind of done listening to them – because I’ve heard these songs so many times. But once we put this album, at the end of it, the journey it takes you on, I still listen to it. I mean, I listen to it when I go walk my dog and I’m like, ‘Yeah, we’ve done something that’s really good here.’ So in that sense, it’s very gratifying.”

Tears for Fears, 2022 U.S. Tour Dates

May 20 - Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center May 21 - Cleveland, OH @ Blossom Music Center May 24 - Dallas, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory May 27 - Phoenix, AZ @ Ak-Chin Pavilion May 29 - Denver, CO @ Levitt Pavilion June 1 - Concord, CA @ Concord Pavilion June 2 - Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre June 4 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum June 5 - San Diego, CA @ North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre June 9 - West Palm Beach, FL @ iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre June 10 - Tampa, FL @ MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheater June 12 - Atlanta, GA @ Ameris Bank Amphitheatre June 13 - Charlotte, NC @ PNC Music Pavilion June 15 - Detroit, MI @ DTE Energy Music Theatre June 16 - Chicago, IL @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre June 17 - Indianapolis, IN @ Ruoff Music Center June 19 - Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion June 21 – Philadelphia, PA @ TD Pavilion at The Mann June 22 - Boston, MA @ Leader Bank Pavilion June 24 - Holmdel, NJ @ P.N.C. Bank Arts Center June 25 - Wantagh, NY @ Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater

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Tears For Fears:  The Tipping Point World Tour

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Philadelphia! Don't miss British pop legends Tears For Fears at TD Pavilion at the Mann on June 21 with special guest Garbage. 

Some forty years into one of music’s most impactful, sometimes tense, and yet curiously enduring partnerships, Tears For Fears have finally arrived together at The Tipping Point – the group’s ambitious, accomplished, and surprising first new studio album in nearly two decades.

And now, at very long last, Tears For Fears find themselves back in peak form at The Tipping Point , an inspired song cycle that speaks powerfully and artfully to our present tense. This is an album that vividly recalls the depth and emotional force of the group’s earliest triumphs. Imagine a far more outward-looking take on Tears For Fears' famously introspective 1983 debut album The Hurting set in an even more mad world, or 1985’s Songs From The Big Chair bravely confronting even bigger issues in our increasingly unruly world. Or even 1989’s The Seeds Of Love that sows a mix of love and other emotions.  The Tipping Point is the bold, beautiful, and powerful sound of Tears For Fears finding themselves together all over again.

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Deafening screams at Tears For Fears’ 1985 San Diego concert made Curt Smith want to quit the band

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‘It was soul-destroying,’ says Smith. Tears For Fears’ co-founder Roland Orzabal has more positive memories. ‘It was wonderful,’ he says

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Roland Orzabal has no recollection of Tears For Fears’ sold-out 1985 debut concert at the San Diego State University Open Air Theatre. But the rapturous — and near-deafening — response the English duo received still haunts Tears’ co-founder Curt Smith to this day.

Proof of their divergent memories of that performance 37 years ago was recently demonstrated by their reactions to hearing a small portion of that review read aloud to them during separate phone interviews. Their 2022 Tears For Fears tour includes a June 5 San Diego concert at North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre.

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Here’s the start of that 1985 review, followed by Smith’s and Orzabal’s responses earlier this month.

Tears’ concert a screaming success

By George Varga, July 10, 1985, San Diego Union

Judging by the rapturous reception accorded Tears for Fears at their sold-out concert here last night, Duran Duran mania has now succumbed to Tears for Fears hysteria.

Just how excited was the crowd? Well, consider the following. At 9:12 p.m. — more than five minutes before Tears for Fears actually appeared — several hundred fans rushed the stage. Two minutes later, with the house-lights still shining brightly, the entire audience rose to its feet in near-frenzied anticipation.

Or take into account the following exchange between Tears’ front man Roland Orzabal and those in attendance prior to the introduction of “Pale Shelter,” the concert’s third selection.

“Hello.” (Deafening screams.) “Hello, everybody.” (Even louder screams.) “Bitchin’.” (Still louder screams.) “This is the very, very first time we’ve been in San Diego. (Prolonged pandemonium.) “And um ... “ (More screams.) “Um, what a lovely evening this is.” (Massive roar.) “Shakespeare ... “ (a conspicuous absence of screams) “... Shakespeare said a lot of things, and I’m sure he once said something about an evening like this.” (Yep, more screams.)

“Well, I guess it’s time to play another song.” (Sheer bedlam.)

Orzabal chuckled several times as he listened to the above five paragraphs being read aloud to him by the same music critic who wrote the review in 1985. Smith also laughed, but his comments could not have been more different than his band mate’s.

Orzabal: “I do not remember that, at all. I guess we were having fun, more fun than we may have admitted at the time. Because we are both happy to moan about anything, and (touring then) was hard work. But I see videos of us in 1985. playing live, and I see two very happy young men.”

Smith: “It’s a kind of a blur. But when I hear about or read that review, a lot of what’s in it is why I didn’t want want to do it (tour) anymore. That kind of (audience) hysteria... just alienates me.”

Orzabal: “One part of you is gobsmacked and overwhelmed by the warmth and enthusiasm of the audience. The other part of you is going: ‘OK, what’s the next chord?’ So, it’s always tempered by the difficulty of your job, which seems to come naturally.”

Smith: “Having a reaction of just euphoria, when you don’t know that individual on stage — or individuals, in our case — is very peculiar. I still don’t understand it.”

Orzabal: “I wasn’t fazed by the success. I had a mission. I was driven by the same things that drive me now.”

Smith: “With audience responses like that, I guess you end up being kind of a pop idol. And that’s definitely something I’m uncomfortable with. All the screaming means is that they’re not listening to what you’re saying or to the lyrical content. They are really just screaming at what they perceive about the band.”

Orzabal: “The audience response you described in San Diego was wonderful. I don’t think it will be like that now!”

Smith: “All I remember of that (1985) tour are hotel rooms, nonstop interviews and playing live every night ... it was soul-destroying.”

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When: 7:30 p.m. next Sunday

Where: North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre, 2050 Entertainment Circle, Chula Vista

Tickets: $29.50-$99.50, plus service fees

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