Legendary new wave and post-punk purveyors the Psychedelic Furs will play San Antonio’s Aztec Theatre with special guests We Are Scientists on May 26, according to a Tuesday morning Instagram post by the venue.
Tickets go on sale to the general public on at 10 a.m. this Friday, while artist and Live Nation presales start this Wednesday.
Known for such tracks as “Heaven,” “Love My Way” and “Pretty In Pink,” the Psychedelic Furs formed in 1977 against a backdrop of the punk explosion. Widely considered the best vintage for classic punk — see the “spirit of ’77” moniker for such bands — that year saw a musical revolution around the Clash, Sex Pistols, the Damned, Wire and other insolent outfits that fostered cultural anarchy in the UK.
While contemporaries of that uprising, the Psychedelic Furs weren’t quite a part of it. Instead, the band separated itself from the punk of the day by putting the word “psychedelic” in its name, much like the Stooges formed as the Psychedelic Stooges a decade earlier.
The Stooges had long since dropped the word “psychedelic,” which was already falling out of favor with the proto-punks as a relic of naive hippiedom. But like most fads, just wait about 15 years and it will become cool again. The Psychedelic Furs leaned into the archaic, and in turn made what was next.
The Furs may not have been “of the moment” in 1977, but they emerged as one of the “it” bands of the ’80s, especially after the track “Pretty In Pink” ended up in the 1986 John Hughes film of the same name, starring Molly Ringwald, James Spader and Jon Cryer.
Indie rock and post-punk revival band We Are Scientists is sure to bring its own draw to the lineup.
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