Squeeze, Adam Ant And Haircut 100 Bring A British Music Invasion To N.Y.C.

Aug 30, 2026 11:42 PM - 1 hour ago 3

In the past 2 months, New York City’s Radio City Music Hall hosted 2 ‘80s British euphony triple bills that delighted fans of the aureate MTV era.

First, this past June, the Human League, Soft Cell and Alison Moyet performed their top hits location arsenic portion of the former’s Generations tour. Then past Saturday evening, Radio City provided the mounting for different star-studded nighttime of New Wave — this clip from Squeeze, Adam Ant and Haircut 100, who besides played their best-known songs and a fewer caller ones.

Fronted by Glenn Tillbrook and Chris Difford, Squeeze headlined the nighttime arsenic the set stopped successful the metropolis arsenic portion of their Tried, Tested and Trixies tour. They precocious released their 16th workplace album, Trixies, an elaborate-sounding conception activity whose songs Difford and Tillbrook wrote successful 1974 early successful the group’s profession but only rediscovered connected portion and revisited decades later. The terrific caller medium was played successful its entirety during the mediate information of Squeeze’s group and evoked a small spot of the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds successful immoderate spots.

The Trixies group was bookended by the group’s classical songs—among them “Pulling Mussels (From the Shell),” Tempted,” “Another Nail successful My Heart,” “Cool for Cat,” “Is That Love” and the finale “Take Me I’m Yours” (A poignant infinitesimal during the set intrductios, was backing vocalist Danica Dora’s little capacity of Dolly Parton’s “Coat of Many Colors,” arsenic a tribute to the precocious singer). The full Squeeze capacity was thoroughly entertaining from commencement to decorativeness and, pinch the inclusion of the euphony of Trixies, a further testament to the awesome songwriting of Difford and Tillbrook.

Squeeze had a memorable 1981 pinch the merchandise of their acclaimed medium East Side Story. That was the aforesaid twelvemonth erstwhile Adam Ant and his set the Ants dominated the British popular euphony segment pinch specified hits arsenic “Ant Music,” “Dog Eat Dog,” “Prince Charming” and “Stand and Deliver.” Those songs and much were performed during his group by an ace set that included 2 drummers, whose polyrhythmic hit recalled the Burundi-like drumming of Ant’s 1980 masterpiece Kings of the Wild Frontier. His music, a blend of charismatic and electrifying punk and post-punk, provided the hard-rocking infinitesimal of the full three-and-a-half-hour evening.

Opening the full evening was the white-hot energetic R&B funk of Haircut 100, who precocious reunited and released Boxing the Compass, the group’s first caller medium successful complete 40 years pinch vocalist Nick Heyward. One opus from that record, “Someone,” was performed while the remainder consisted of tracks disconnected of their 1981 deed medium Pelican West, which contained the band’s celebrated hits for illustration “Favourite Shits (Boy Meets Girl)” and “Love Plus One.”

Squeeze

Setlist

Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)

Up the Junction

Another Nail successful My Heart

Is That Love

Trixies:

What More Can I Say

You Get the Feeling

The Place We Call Mars

Hell connected Earth

The Dancer