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AIR SUPPLIED

Angry Gaia was never going to stand for this:

Pop-rock duet Air Supply captivated over 100,000 people who attended the concert held at the Anti-Imperialist Tribune in Havana waterfront on Thursday night.

On their first visit to Cuba, Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock sang the songs that made them famous in the 80´s like Goodbye, Here I Am, Every Woman in the World and Sweet Dreams, among others.

Deadly Hurricane Dennis arrived soon afterwards (neatly side-stepping Guantanamo Bay, incidentally). Twister fan James Wolcott will be pleased.

Posted by Tim B. on 07/09/2005 at 05:03 AM

  1. ‘I’m all out of love, da dah de de dah dah’. At least those Cubists are gettin’ a bit of Aussie Kulture up ‘em eh?. Sweet!

    Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2005 07 09 at 06:12 AM • permalink

  2. Isn’t playing in Havana now sort of like playing in the former Soviet Union back in the 70’s?  Back then, the Communists generally imported Western performers who couldn’t hack it anywhere in the Real Free World.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 07 09 at 06:40 AM • permalink

  3. Pop-rock? Where is the rock to be found within their syrupy saccharine slops? Haven’t the Cubans suffered enough?

    Posted by Jim Geones on 2005 07 09 at 06:52 AM • permalink

  4. their music was described as being the same song rewritten 200 times .

    Posted by crash on 2005 07 09 at 07:32 AM • permalink

  5. I remember once, when I was 12 or 13, riding in the car with my parents, with the radio on.  The DJ announced, “We’ve got Australia’s Air Supply right here on Northeast Ohio’s home for great music . . .” or words to that effect.  I was horrified.  If they had Australia’s air supply at a radio station in Youngstown, Ohio, then that would mean . . . the kangaroos were suffocating!

    Posted by Baby M on 2005 07 09 at 08:25 AM • permalink

  6. Surely not even caribbean commies deserve to be exposed to Air Supply; I for one would sooner be exposed to ebola. I suppose given the regular food shortages, the nausea that would accompany the aural pollution from that gig would put you off your tucker for a while, and ease the stomach pangs.

    Posted by Habib on 2005 07 09 at 08:27 AM • permalink

  7. Wow, they managed to piss off a planet.

    Posted by Aging Gamer on 2005 07 09 at 08:43 AM • permalink

  8. Man, that’s gotta be a worse gig than having to hawk your CDs on late-night TV.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2005 07 09 at 09:51 AM • permalink

  9. How does it stack up to playing Ibiza holiday camps?

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 07 09 at 10:43 AM • permalink

  10. No thanks for reminding me of Wolcott’s existence.

    Posted by Jim Treacher on 2005 07 09 at 11:13 AM • permalink

  11. Air Supply.

    I always thought theirs should have been cut off.

    JJM

    Posted by JJM Ballantyne on 2005 07 09 at 11:24 AM • permalink

  12. The Cuban audience were simply tickled to learn that they have a supply of anything at all. And the band showed great cultural sensitivity in modifying their lyrics to speak to the special concerns of Cubans; “I’m All Out of Everything” was particularly well-received. I hope Air Supply’s fine example will be followed by their countrymen the Kay Gee Bees and Men at Forced Labour when they go on tour there later this summer. Though a line like “Who can it be knocking at my door?” admittedly won’t need much reworking.

    Posted by Paul Zrimsek on 2005 07 09 at 11:37 AM • permalink

  13. over 100,000 people attended the concert

    They were told it was the lineup for their monthly allotment of toilet paper and chicken lips.

    Posted by Arty on 2005 07 09 at 12:03 PM • permalink

  14. Deadly Hurricane Dennis arrived soon afterwards (neatly side-stepping Guantanamo Bay, incidentally).

    That’s odd. I seem to recall Gaia side-stepping the U.S. military base in Diego Garcia, too, while destroying much of Muslim Indonesia last December.

    What does it all mean?

    Posted by Lawrence on 2005 07 09 at 12:23 PM • permalink

  15. How low the mighty falsetto-voiced have fallen. To be upstaged by an inanimate screamer on a whirlwind Caribbean tour.

    It seems Hurricane Dennis flooded the Cuban market with/for air-supply…

    Cheesy drumhit.

    Posted by monkeyfan on 2005 07 09 at 01:03 PM • permalink

  16. If there are that bad (and TBH I’ve never heard of them) why not let them do a 24 hour long concert for peace and tolerance at Gitmo with strippers etc (after supplying Freindly forces with ipods).

    Posted by Rob Read on 2005 07 09 at 02:06 PM • permalink

  17. Rob Read — What have you got against strippers?

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 07 09 at 02:33 PM • permalink

  18. the Kay Gee Bees and Men at Forced Labour

    LOL.

    Posted by PW on 2005 07 09 at 06:40 PM • permalink

  19. Post #12 lol!

    Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2005 07 09 at 06:45 PM • permalink

  20. “What have you got against strippers?”

    Often only my trousers (and a smile)!

    Posted by Rob Read on 2005 07 09 at 07:12 PM • permalink

  21. I once flew Qantas from Sydney to San Francisco. I put Air Supply on the headset, and Beefeaters and Schweppes in the Chalice. Every time I sobered up, they were playing Makin’ Love Outta Mothin’ at All. Wonderful way to wake up on the same morning you departed and still have all day to drink.

    Posted by Abu Qa'Qa on 2005 07 09 at 08:21 PM • permalink

  22. PIMF: Mothin’ = Nothin’

    Posted by Abu Qa'Qa on 2005 07 09 at 08:22 PM • permalink

  23. You guys also gave us AC/DC, so I guess we’ll forgive you.  Just don’t make a habit of it, OK?

    Posted by Mitch on 2005 07 09 at 11:25 PM • permalink

  24. As gratifyingly ironic as the non-victims of Hurricane Dennis may be, a genuine Compassionate Head Tilt goes out to the people of Cuba—who are now suffering its effects in addition to those of Hurricane Castro, which has been parked on that island for decades.

    Posted by Achillea on 2005 07 10 at 02:25 AM • permalink

  25. A snotty old geezer named Wolcott
    while zipping his pants, got his ball caught
    With his screams and his yanks
    he tore both ‘Beans AND franks’
    Now gelded, his Gaia dreams all shot

    Posted by Carl H on 2005 07 10 at 01:09 PM • permalink

  26. How do the Cubans know these guys aren’t topping the charts?  Cuba’s behind the rest of the world by 25 years, after all.

    Posted by AST on 2005 07 13 at 05:04 AM • permalink

  27. Just reviewed the link on Wolcott.  I don’t root for hurricanes, but he makes me feel a lot better about global warming.  It’s supposed to flood NYC, no?

    Posted by AST on 2005 07 13 at 05:08 AM • permalink

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