Nearing halftime on a 60-date North American summer tour – 50 of ‘em in support of Culture Club, the remainder modest headlining gigs in towns both great and small – the Bailey camp struck a strategic jackpot, with a two-night booking on July 31 st and August 1 st destined to rank among the most memorable for all concerned. Tom Bailey’s keyboard player strolled down Broadway 90 minutes before the show, her phone recording either for posterity or social media. You can’t fight the Times Square effect as you approach the club it’s on the soles of your shoes, it’s pinging in your ears, and it’s no ordinary load-in or soundcheck for a performer. It’s only a five-minute walk from The Iridium Jazz Club at 51 st & Broadway, even allowing for all the stutter-steps and red-light logjams. One of the developed world’s most frenetic culture cauldrons, it’s like a pinball machine on perpetual tilt. Nearly 400,000 pedestrians pass through the Times Square Bowtie on a typical summer’s day.

With additional reports from shows in Orlando FL (July 3, 2018) and Biloxi MS (July 5, 2018)

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