Wednesday, Jun 7, 1989
Violent Femmes
- Date
- Wednesday, Jun 7, 1989
- Show time
- 8:00 PM
- Venue
- California Theatre
- City
- San Diego, CA
- Seating
- Left Orchestra
- Face value
- $20.50
- Promoter
- Avalon & 91X
- Sold by
- Ticketmaster
The moment
The Violent Femmes' 1983 debut is one of the strangest success stories in American music — it never touched the charts on release, then went platinum years later purely on word of mouth, cassette dubs, and every teenager who ever felt like 'Blister in the Sun' was written about them. By 1989 the band was touring its third album while the first one kept quietly outselling everything — it finally entered the Billboard 200 in 1991, eight years late. A seated theater full of people who all learned the same record in someone's bedroom.
From the time
- Violent Femmes (album)
“The 1983 debut that charted eight years after release — platinum by pure word of mouth.”
The stub
