An Excess Of Hype For INXS: Aussie Band Packs ’em In On Tour of Small Clubs

“In a sense, we do take mischievous pleasure doing what we’re doing,” said vocalist Michael Hutchence. “But we’re not trying to tease our fans, really, because this (club tour) is part of an ongoing world tour. We’ll be back. Why we chose to play in clubs for our first trek of our U.S. tour is really quite simple. It was time for us to get back to the basics, which meant getting back into the clubs we started our careers in.

All it took was a `Kick’: INXS brings fan into present

A few days before my 17th birthday in 1983, INXS was scheduled to play a 21-and-older show at the Park West, which left me in a quandary.  On the one hand, I really wanted to check out this new band that had a sound like nothing I’d heard before.  But I also was cowed by the fact that the only fake ID I had said I was 32. INXS won out.