In 1986, VSPY VSPY did something almost no band manages: they released two albums in a single year, on different labels, and charted with both. Harry’s Reasons arrived on Midnight Oil’s Powderworks label in February – raw, political, and rooted in the inner-city Sydney squat scene the band called home. A.O. Mod. TV. Vers. followed in December on WEA, spawning the platinum-selling ‘Don’t Tear It Down’ and peaking at #12 nationally. Forty years on, those records sound less like nostalgia and more like the news.
To mark the occasion, VSPY VSPY are hitting the road for a national tour this October – five shows across Perth, Adelaide, Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne – celebrating the 40th anniversary of both albums with a night that’s as much a conversation as it is a concert.
