Tears for Fears tribute band Close to Tears plays their hits live at The Victoria in Swindon.
Close to Tears are playing The Victoria on Saturday 7 November, a rescheduled date from 24 July. They're a Tears for Fears tribute band, and the set is built around the songs that made the original duo famous in the eighties.
They've been around since 2015, and they describe themselves as Europe's premier celebration of Tears for Fears. The five-piece is made up of professional musicians who've worked with Alison Moyet, Sophie Ellis Bextor, Lillie Alan, Kylie Minogue and Joe Satriani, which adds up to more than 60 years of joint professional experience on stage. That's a fair bit of time behind them, and it shows in the way they approach the material. They've been called the next best thing to the original act, and they're endorsed by the families of Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal, with Smith himself among their admirers.
It's a full, vibrant and emotional show, and it always delivers the hits: 'Everybody Wants To Rule The World', 'Shout', 'Mad World' and the haunting 'Woman In Chains'. If you know the songs, you'll recognise them from the first few notes. If you don't, they're the ones that defined the sound of a whole era, and they're played here with the same attention to detail that the original recordings had.
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Doors open at 20:30 at The Victoria (The Vic), 88 Victoria Road, SN1 3BD, Swindon. Tickets are £12.50.
