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Local History

The Kinks (9/17/1981)

A Wings Stadium Concert Scrapbook Page

Artist(s): The Kinks w/ Red Rider
Date: 17 September 1981
Tickets: $8.75 (general admission and reserved seating) + 25¢ surcharge per ticket for parking
Attendance: 3,500
Notes: Surprisingly little local promotion.
Setlist (The Kinks*): Opening / Around the Dial, The Hard Way, Destroyer, Yo-Yo, Catch Me Now I’m Falling, Better Things, Lola, Too Serious, Art Lover, Waterloo Sunset, You Really Got Me, Back to Front / Get Back, A Gallon of Gas, Till the End of the Day, Celluloid Heroes, 20th Century Man, Killer’s Eyes, All Day and All of the Night, Give the People What They Want, Misfits, Low Budget, Add It Up, (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman / Shakin’ All Over, Pressure, Village Green Preservation Society, Twist and Shout.

*unconfirmed, but likely similar based on other performances around the same time (Philadelphia, PA)

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 13 September 1981, (center) 17 September 1981, (right) 13 September 1981. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 18 September 1981. Kalamazoo Public Library

 

Sources

Articles

“‘Kinks’ at Wings Thursday”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 13 September 1981, page 29 (C-6)

“Pop, rock, folk and jazz”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 13 September 1981, page 23 (C-1)

“Red Rider on tonight’s Wings bill”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 17 September 1981, page 49

“A band out of the past visits Wings”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 18 September 1981, page 17