The fact that EMF has not played concerts in the U.S. since 1992 is, well.
..unbelievable.
But it’s true. The British band that hit big with the 1990 single “Unbelievable” has been absent from these shores for 31 years. But it’s following a booking at Milwaukee’s huge Summerfest with stops in Ferndale and Brooklyn to make a full weekend of the visit.
“North America embraced us back then, and Detroit was the second gig we played on the tour when ‘Unbelievable’ went No. 1, and I just remember it being crazy,” co-founding guitarist/keyboardist Ian Dench says via Zoom from England. But, he adds, after two albums, 1991’s “Schubert Dip” and 1992’s “Stigma,” “the next album was not really a success, so we decided perhaps our career was headed in the wrong direction and we should call it a day.
” The group, which still includes frontman James Atkin, did regroup at points during the interim, while Dench had his own success writing songs for Beyonce, Jordin Sparks, Amanda Ghost, Prodigy and others, and working as a record label executive. EMF’s latest reunion yielded a new album, “The Beauty and the Chaos,” earlier this year, and Dench, 59, says he’s confident that the band is again a going concern and is also hoping to play more North American shows later this year. Related Articles “I think the band is in a great place,” Dench says.
“In terms of playing, I don’t think we’ve ever been better. And inter-band relationships..
.we have such.