SPRINGBREAK

Tuesday August 26th 2008, 5:34 pm
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Hi all.

We’ve had lots of people asking for tickets for Sept 27th. Sorry but all the tickets are sold out.
If any of our guests don’t show up that night we may release their tickets on a 1st come 1st served basis.

In the meantime, email springbreak80s@gmail.com and we’ll put you on our mailing list, so you’ll get early warning of the next show.

To those with tickets, let’s make it a Grand Old Party!
Spring Break

Super Saturday sold out!

Friday August 08th 2008, 9:29 am
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Hey Spring Break fans, Sonny Prizewater here.

Over the more than three decades I’ve been an employee of Outatime Industries – Spring Break’s corporate arm – I’ve witnessed historic events, made some unforgettable cocktails and seen inspiration inspired, but these past 24hrs have really waylaid me. News has just reached me that our Super Saturday show in Tripod sold out last night as I was making my way to Beijing for the Olympic ceremony later today.

I immediately contacted the guys to let them know and I can tell you, I haven’t heard such composed disbelief since I phoned Ron and Nancy back in late ’83 to tell them of their landslide victory over Mondale (photo attached). Thanks, on behalf of us all, for ticking the box marked Spring Break and once again making us your #1. We look forward to seeing you at the show.

Keep the fire burnin’,

Sonny & Spring Break

Spring Break : Super Saturday!

Friday August 01st 2008, 6:36 pm
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Tickets go on sale at 9.27am next Thursday August 7th, online at
www.tickets.ie , Sound Cellar & City Discs.

*** Know someone who’s not on our mailing list? Email ‘JOIN’ to
springbreak80s@gmail.com ***

Ed Rollins here, canvassing on behalf of your favourite 80s Super
Group. The band assures me they hope this electronic correspondence
finds you well.

As we all know, the enduring appeal of Spring Break is often
attributed to their construction of bipartisan pop hits that
bandwagoned and sloganeered their way to the top of the Billboard
Chart. Somewhat less well known however, is that the ease with which
these melodic market leaders were created owes much to the laissez
faire song writing climate that bore them.

I have long seen the guys’ rehearsal yacht as being both a free market
of creativity and a vessel of musical self-regulation: a pristine
sailboat where the greatest demand is for and of themselves. Song
writing sessions have often been fraught – it’s true that cocktails
have been thrown, satin shirts ripped and beard trimmers hidden – but
in the end they have always pulled together and asked the same
questions of each other: is this the best we can do? Can we make this
more commercially viable? Are you drinking that?

And so it is every four years when Spring Break turn their attention
to another of their great passions: the political future of the free
world.

Sure, sumptuous tax breaks and prime investment opportunities with
military contractors are the kind of benefits the guys have enjoyed as
lifelong card-carriers of the GOP, but this is one band that has never
shirked its political responsibility. While many of their peers have
spent their careers hiding behind liberal rhetoric, Spring break have
allowed their actions to speak as loudly as their shirts. It was this
I had in mind when I made my boldest move as the National Director of
the Reagan/Bush Presidential campaign of 1984.

September 27th, 1983 was the date and NBC Studios in NYC the place
that the race for The White House irreversibly turned in favour Ron
and George that election year. It was when and where an unrepeated
precedent occurred in American politics: a debate between the
favourite musical artists of both nominees. Fighting the corner for
the Mondale/Ferraro Democratic that night was a singer/songwriter
called Bob Dylan.

Though the opening exchanges were nervy - with both sides attacking
the vacuity of the others’ lyrics – the aging troubadour began to
falter under Spring Break’s electric onslaught. Dylan’s doubts about
the GOP’s commitment to foreign aid, for instance, seemed imprudent
once he was informed by Sonny Prizewater that he and his band had once
blessed the rains down in Africa.

The contest, and entire campaign, changed in one instant however, when
Dylan claimed it should be him and not Spring Break who should act as
musical director for the planned Hollywood blockbuster, Cocktail. The
frail folk balladeer claimed he had learned all there was to know
about the art form from Kenny Loggins while holidaying with the
bearded soundtrack machine in Montego Bay during the fall of ‘82.

Jan Van Couver’s reply was as swift as it was defining: “Bob, I’ve
played with Kenny Loggins; I know Kenny Loggins; Kenny Loggins is a
friend of mine. Bob, you’re no Kenny Loggins.” With that, the
Mondale/Ferraro campaign was knocking on heaven’s door. Ron and George
were returned to the White House later that year with a 49 State
landslide victory.

I will always be indebted to the guys’ performance that night. Despite
my best efforts, it was the last time we would see Spring Break in a
televised political debate. But now, 25 years later, they have chosen
to remember that moment with a commemorative music concert in Dublin’s
Tripod, September 27th, 2008.

Tickets to this Super Saturday show are €24.50 and go on sale at
9.27am, Thursday August 7th, online at www.tickets.ie and in Sound
Cellar on Nassau St. I hope to be there myself and look forward to
voting Spring Break with you all.

Until then,

Keep the fire burnin’

Ed & Spring Break

Tripod Christmas Photos

Thursday April 10th 2008, 9:51 am
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After many months working in the lab we’ve finally managed to convert our Polaroids from our Christmas show in Tripod into digital form and have posted them here

Tripod Sold Out!!

Monday February 11th 2008, 10:02 pm
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Hi folks,

Tickets for April 12th are all sold out - if you haven’t got yours, get on the mailing list in time for our next show; email us at
springbreak80s@gmail.com

To the lucky ticket holders, many thanks to you for snapping up all tickets, retail & online in just a few days!

All our best,
Spring Break

Tripod 12th April 2008

Wednesday February 06th 2008, 2:34 am
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Hey Spring Break fans,

Carl Lewis here, relaying all the latest news from your favourite 80s Super Group.

An insatiable appetite for glory, a passion for smashing world records, a holier than thou sense of self-righteousness, a voracious attitude to corporate backhanders, and a chequered past when it comes to drug use are just some of the attributes I share with my good friends in Spring Break. But there’s another common bond between us, something for which we will all likely be remembered, forever more: our startling performances at the Los Angeles Summer Olympics of 1984. But let’s jump back some 90 years before that perfect moment in time…

When Baron Pierre de Coubertin founded the International Olympic Committee in Paris back in 1894, he bestowed upon the movement a three word motto: “Citius, Altius, Fortius” (Faster, Higher, Stronger). This adage is one I have always strived to live by throughout my career as a God-fearing track and field athlete of world renown. On the evening of July 28th 1984, at the opening ceremony of the Games of the XXIII Olympiad however, Spring Break set about rewriting the Baron’s near century old aphorism with a set that is still the gold medal standard for every gig since played, or yet imagined.

The headline on the front page of the LA Times the following morning simply read: “Atarachos, Oraios, Yperfysikos” (Composed, Beautiful, Supernatural). These three tenets have been the basis for every Spring Break show since the Pacific sun set on that otherworldly appearance at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and it will be no different when the band appears at Tripod on Saturday April 12th to reprise their Olympic set in its entirety.

Before then there is the small matter of aiding me, and other former Games legends, in delivering the torch to Beijing for the start of this year’s festival of deception. But rest assured, this trans-continental slog will not incapacitate the guys one bit: they’ll be undertaking their leg – the first leg - of the journey aboard Mary Lou Retton’s private jet.

Tickets to this Tripod show are €24.50 and are on sale now online at www.tickets.ie and in Sound Cellar on Nassau St. I hope to be there myself and look forward to running up a considerable drinks tab with you all.

Until then,
Keep the fire burnin’

Carl & Spring Break

Tripod, Sat 22nd Dec - Sold Out

Tuesday October 23rd 2007, 6:25 pm
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Spring Break: The Miracle on Harcourt Street
Sold Out.

Spring Break fans,

Jan Van Couver here, currently writing you from the Martha’s Vineyard Holistic Retreat Spa.

Marilu Henner and I are now on the final leg of our extended holiday tour of the world’s top integrated health hideaways. This prolonged sojourn - my first of 30+ years in music, excepting, of course, an enforced break from entertaining huge crowds in the early 90s, due to the short-lived popularity of a swathe of be-flannelled ‘musicians’ with a dubiously bleak world view – has taken in many destinations..

Stays at The Ashram and The Esalen Institute in California, In:Spa in Marrakech and The Big Stretch in northern Spain’s Picos mountains have ignited a flame in my nerve centre, and allowed me to once more clearly focus on the axiom that underscores audacious hit-making: dream; interpret; beguile.

But enough show: more business.

News has arrived freshly via telefax that the Spring Break Xmas Show 2007: The Miracle on Harcourt Street © has now sold out. On behalf of Carmichael, Hilton, Jim, Kendrick and myself, thank you to all who picked up tickets for what we guarantee will be the most fun-filled night of theatrics you could have this coming holiday season. Our entire production team is now in full swing planning the show and our hope is to eclipse all that has gone before in our career together as a friends, colleagues and members of the GOP.

We’ll be making a special announcement closer to the event so be sure to look out for further electronic mails, or check in with us at our home on the Information Superhighway: www.springbreak80s.com

Keep the fire burnin’,
Jan & Spring Break

Tripod, Sat 22nd Dec

Saturday September 29th 2007, 9:04 pm
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~ Spring Break: Miracle on Harcourt St.
Saturday 22nd December 2007
Tripod, Harcourt St. Dublin 2
doors 7.30, show ends 10.30
tickets €23.50 incl. booking fee from;

~ www.tickets.ie
~ Sound Cellar, Nassau St.
~ City Discs, Temple Bar Lane

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Howdy friends,

George P. Shultz here, dropping a line to you all on behalf of Spring Break.

The guys have been on the road these past few months and only last weekend wrapped up their mini-tour of executive fundraisers with a headlining show at the Bechtel Corporation’s end of summer barbecue. More at home in an environment of assertive political purpose, the Break were only too happy to turn down a slot at Tipper Gore’s 59 th birthday party in favour of performing for an ageing cabal of business associates with similar vested interests.

These shows are an essential stop on the Spring Break itinerary as they not only provide an opportunity to test material in front of an inattentive and out of touch audience, but also afford time to consort with those principle movers in US industry who annually pick up the tab for the band’s increasingly large carbon footprint. In a bid to unwind, this past week has seen the guys undertake a series of personal ventures as varied as the music that has defined their career together as a performing group.

While Jim Break has continued his stay with me to chair strategic talks at the JP Morgan Chase bank’s International Advisory Council, his kinsman in synth, Hilton Burbank, has flown to California to receive an honorary fellowship from the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Plant City, Florida, and in particular, its recently opened church of Scientology is where you’ll find Kendrick Berrera, the spiritual countinghouse’s principal benefactor. Carmichael Anthony Thomas St. Hall is in New York acting as an advisor on the set of a made-for-TV biopic about his late friend, Jean-Michel Basquiat. And Jan Van Couver - as most of you will already know from tabloid newspaper coverage - is vacationing in Europe with Marilu Henner.

After these projects are completed, the fellas plan to return their attention to their new luxury hanglider company (Style Glide), an appointment to turn on the Xmas lights at the Rockefeller Centre in New York at the end of November, and the small matter of putting together their freshly confirmed show in Tripod, Dublin on December 22 nd.

Plans are already in motion to make this Xmas show the band’s most spectacular yet. Tickets for this seasonal spectacular are now on sale and are available online at www.tickets.ie and in the retail outlets Sound Cellar of Nassau St and City Discs of Temple Bar Lane South.

On behalf of,
Spring Break

Keep the fire burnin’,
George P. Shultz