Hot ticket: INXS 021606 - The Augusta Chronicle

Hot ticket: INXS

By Steven Uhles| Staff Writer

Thursday, February 16, 2006

INXS

WHEN: 8 p.m. Wednesday

WHERE: Atlanta Civic Center, 395 Piedmont Ave.

COST: $35-$65

KNOWN FOR: Riding a funky pub-rock sound through most of the 1980s.

WHAT'S BEING PUSHED: The 2005 release Switch

TRIVIA: Band traces its roots back to the Aussie family act the Farriss Brothers

- The original lineup formed in 1977 and took the name INXS in 1979

- Originally marketed as New Wave, despite a Rolling Stones-style stadium sound

- Band released the album Elegantly Wasted in the spring of 1997. In November 1997, lead singer Michael Hutchence was found dead, an apparent suicide.

- Before finding current singer J.D. Fortune in the wonderful world of reality television, semistars Terence Trent D'Arby and Jon Stephens occupied the spot.

From the Thursday, February 16, 2006 edition of the Augusta Chronicle

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