On this tour, the British synth-pop band are playing all of their 1981 smash hit record, Dare.
In 1980, in a recording studio near Reading in Berkshire, a 25-year-old Philip Oakey, lead singer of synth-pop band The Human League, sang a song that changed his life,“It was in a toilet,” Oakey says from his home in Sheffield. “Apparently it was the best acoustics. At one stage, while I was recording with the headphones on, our producer Martin Rushent sent the engineer to scare me by jumping down from above. Someone kept flushing the toilet behind me as well.
“Me, Joanne and Susan, we shouldn’t have been able to have this, not exactly easy or a good life, but an interesting life,” he says. “We’ve ended up getting respect we’re probably not due, because, in my case, people have treated me as a musician for the whole of my life. That is miraculous.” “These five guys with a Moog synthesiser and a Mellotron walked on stage in high heels and sequins and my life changed,” he says. “The next day, I went out and got some make-up and started trying it on. I got the heels later.”
For this tour he’s still in stack heels and platforms, always in flared trousers, but is less reliant on make-up. “There comes a time in your life when your eyeliner won’t go on properly,” he says. “But, I’ve got some ideas. I enjoy my clothes. I hunt out different designers, because I still want to give people something worth looking at.”After nearly five decades of The Human League, Oakey still relishes far-flung stages. “I’d tour nine months of the year,” he says.
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