Mini music festival at Wind Creek to have 'Totally Tubular' lineup from '80s, '90s

BETHLEHEM, Pa. — A mini-festival featuring more than a half-dozen pop bands that each had a handful of hits in the 1980s and '90s is coming to Wind Creek Event Center, the venue announced.

Totally Tubular Festival, which features acts including Right Said Fred, The Motels, The Tubes, Men Without Hats and more, will perform at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 17.

Tickets, at $60-$130, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Jan. 31, at the event center website or its box office at 77 Wind Creek Blvd., Bethlehem.

The lineup is:

Right Said Fred, an English pop band formed by brothers Fred and Richard Fairbrass in 1989, that is best known for the hit 1991 song "I'm Too Sexy.”

The single went to No. 1 on the singles chart and reached platinum sales. They also had Top 10 songs on the Dance chart with the songs “Don’t Talk Just Kiss” and “Deeply Dippy.”

Those songs pushed sales of its 1992 debut album “Up” to gold sales.

Despite releasing eight more albums through 2017, it had no more chart success.

The Motels, a new wave band that in the 1980s had two gold albums, is best known for the songs “Only the Lonely,” which hit No. 9 in 1982, and “Suddenly Last Summer,” which hit the same position in 1983.

The songs featured singer Martha Davis’s droll, flat-affect voice, which became a trademark of female punk and new wave singers.

The group’s 1982 album “All Four One” and its 1983 disc “Little Robbers” both went Top 25 and sold gold.

In 1985 it had a third Top 20 single, “Shame,” and in 1986, its song “Shame on You” appeared on the soundtrack of the hit Eddie Murphy film “The Golden Child.”

Davis is the group’s only original member, but the current members have played together for 28 years — far longer than the original The Motels.

The Tubes from 1975-86 released seven albums, two of which — 1981’s "The Completion Backward Principle” and 1983’s “Outside Inside” — charted in the Top 40.

Two of its singles — 1981’s "Talk to Ya Later" and 1983’s “She’s a Beauty” — peaked at No. 7 and No. 10, respectively, on the Mainstream Rock chart.

It had two more minor singles — “The Monkey Time” in 1983 and “Piece by Piece” in 1985.

It has three original members, including singer Fee Waybill.

Men Without Hats, a Canadian new wave/synth group, had the 1982 hit “Safety Dance,” which peaked at No. 3 on the overall Singles chart and No. 1 on the Dance chart.

That helped push its 1982 debut album “Rhythm of Youth” to No. 3 on the Albums chart and gold sales.

It had a minor hit with 1987’s “Pop Goes the World,” but never again hit the Top 25 singles chart or hit the Top 50 with its seven subsequent albums.

The band broke up from 1993, but reformed in 2003 before breaking up again 2004-10.

It released its most recent album, its first in a decade, “Again, (Part 2),” in 2022.

The band still has original vocalist Ivan Doroschuk and keyboardist/vocalist Colin Doroschuk from the band’s peak lineup.

British pop band Haircut 100 had one U.S. Top 40 hit, “Love Plus One” in 1982, with the album from which it came, “Pelican West,” peaking at No. 31.

It released its final album, “Paint and Paint,” in 1984, but released a new single, “The Unloving Plum,” last year.

It has three members, including vocalist Nick Heyward, from its classic lineup.

Synth-pop band Animotion, is best known for its Top 10 songs “Obsession” in 1984 and “Room to Move” in 1989.

Its self-titled debut album in 1984 broke the Top 30, but none of its three subsequent albums broke the Top 50.

It has five members from its classic lineup, including lead singers Astrid Plane, guitarists Bill Wadhams and Don Kirkpatick and keyboardist Greg Smith.

Musical Youth, a British reggae band, is best known for its 1982 single “Pass the Dutchie,” a Top 10 hit, and “Unconditional Love,” a Top 10 hit with Donna Summer in 1983.

Its 1982 debut album “Youth of Today,” charted in the Top 25.

Its lineup includes lead vocalist Dennis Seaton and keyboardist Michael Grant from its peak lineup.