Year: 2011

Make a video of you performing your favorite Go-Go’s song and get FREE VIP access TIX to see them play on Good Morning America !

As many of you know, The Go-Go’s will be performing on Good Morning America on June 3rd (More details HERE)

We will be releasing a FREE VIP PRIORITY ACCESS WRISTBAND TO SEE THE GO-GO’s in New York, Rumsey Playfield in Central Park, for EVERY ONE OF YOU that posts a 1-minute video of themselves performing their favorite Go-Go’s song!

Every entry must send their video link along with their email address and name, so we can contact you, to info@gogos.com. Do not send us the file, please upload your video to YouTube (or another video site) and send us the URL.

Be sure to email us at info@gogos.com to enter the contest.

The winner will be picked by the band and get a special video shout-out by your name from the Go-Go’s! The Go-Go’s will tell the world that your video was their favorite!

But remember, EVERY submission gets free VIP front of the line, no camping with the rest of the crowd, priority access to the taping of the GMA show, featuring the Go-Go’s. Contest ends Thursday afternoon. Winners must get themselves to NYC, sorry! 🙂

Go-Go’s Bassist tells the true Hollywood story of her wild life – on Twitter

By LARRY GETLEN – NY Post

When Go-Go’s bassist Kathy Valentine was 15, she and a “friend” met a pair of suave, cowboy-hat-wearing drug dealers who were 24 and 38 years old. While her friend began dating the 24-year-old — a man who had recently escaped from Leavenworth prison — Valentine became an item with the 38-year-old, and the four became a tight, wild hangout crew.

That “friend,” by the way, was her mother.

Since February 2010, Valentine has been recalling tales of her youth gone wild and even some hellacious survival experiences — including a teenage rape and a home invasion — 140 characters at a time, in more than 1,750 tweets to date, on her “@kvmemoir” Twitter account.

When her bandmate, vocalist Belinda Carlisle, released her own memoir earlier that same year, Valentine was inspired to tweet hers, becoming the first celeb to “pen” a memoir on Twitter. She began with: “Mom @ 17 met Dad in Hyde Park/London. He was in USAF. She always said I was born coz she ate a sandwich in the park 4 lunch 1 day.”

Many of her tweets convey a literary flare, as with, “Stepmom had eyes like little black stones, when she smiled there was no sparkle.”

She also doesn’t shy away from her tragedies. A tale from when she was about 14, of a night when she was with a friend who picked up two guys at a bar, includes the tweet, “They took us to apartment, she went in bedroom w/1 guy. The other one forced me. Wasn’t 1st sex for me but was rape. He got mad I was crying.”

The memoir’s other harrowing passage comes when she recalls, over 39 tweets, a 1985 home invasion where she and musician friends Carlene Carter and Charlie Sexton were tied up and terrorized in her home. One read as follows: “Lunged at him. Carlene was sobbing & screaming. He dodged me, grabbed my arm & twisted it until I dropped the knife. Then I started crying.”

“What I was trying to convey is that it was a devastating occurrence,” Valentine tells The Post. “I’d bought the house in January, and that happened in July. I moved out. I couldn’t be there anymore.”

Luckily, all escaped unharmed, but the perpetrator was never caught.

“Your house is where you’re supposed to feel safe. I never stayed in that house again,” she adds.

Valentine also caused controversy when she tweeted about an abortion she had in the ’80s, two days before the Go-Go’s played Madison Square Garden.

“[Some people tweeted], ‘Why don’t you use the real word’ — because I said ‘terminated’ — or, ‘I feel bad for you. That was a terrible mistake,’ ” says Valentine.

But worse, she had never told her husband about the abortion, and he learned about it by reading her tweets.

“He was like, ‘Oh my God. You didn’t tell me that,’ ” she says. “It was uncomfortable. You love somebody and think you know them really well, and all of a sudden it’s like, ‘Blammo!’ They feel like they should know.”

Valentine — whose band releases a remastered version of its 1981 debut, “Beauty and the Beat,” on Tuesday and performs at Irving Plaza on Friday — posts anywhere from two to 15 tweets several times a week, taking care not to overwhelm the feeds of her 1,100 followers. Her story is currently in 1999, and she’ll continue until it catches up to the present.

While there are several frustrating aspects to the project — it’s difficult to read from the beginning, and it’s impossible for her to edit posts without completely deleting them — Valentine is thrilled to help deepen the perception of what Twitter can do.

“People shake up the genre from time to time, and attention spans are shorter. So why not do it on Twitter?” she says. “If I do make it a book, I’m gonna keep it like it is — except in reverse order.”

The Go-Go’s didn’t just influence the 80’s music scene but also the 80’s hair scene!! Check out this vintage article about the “new look” that was sweeping the nation thanks to Gina and Belinda.

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For more great photos check our facebook page photo albums. We are updating the gallery there daily!! If you have any scans you’d like to share please e-mail them to us!!

Thanks to Kathy for the scan.

New interview with Kathy from PennLive.com

When the Go-Go’s debut album, “Beauty and the Beat,” arrived in stores in 1981, it became the first all-female group (that played its own instruments and wrote its own songs) to hit No. 1 on the Billboard record charts.

Thirty years later, few female bands have followed in its wake, a fact that bothers bassist Kathy Valentine somewhat.

“I’m surprised about that stuff,” she said while taking a rehearsal break in Los Angeles. “It’s one of the questions I ruminate over a lot.”

It’s a good thing that the Go-Go’s are still going strong then. Valentine, Belinda Carlisle, Charlotte Caffey, Gina Schock and Jane Wiedlin have reunited this summer for a “Ladies Gone Wild” tour and will make one of their first stops at the Hershey Theatre on Sunday.

By a lucky coincidence (the ladies were supposed to tour last year, but Wiedlin hurt her knee), the tour also happens to coincide with the 30th anniversary of “Beauty and the Beat.” The album, which featured such beloved hits as “Our Lips are Sealed” and “We Got the Beat,” went double platinum on its initial release and is regarded as one of the most successful debut albums ever.

“The album came out at a real exciting time in music,” Valentine said. “A lot of new wave bands were making big splashes. That era was a great time for our record to come out.”

A deluxe edition of the album was just released last week, which Valentine dubbed “a nifty little promotional opportunity.”

And while concertgoers can expect to hear classic Go-Go’s tunes, Valentine said putting together the set list can be a struggle.

“It’s a struggle. We all have our favorites. Two thirds of the set is just obvious, perennial standbys. The last third is a struggle,” Valentine said. “You can’t even argue if someone says they don’t like a song. You can’t say ‘Yes, you do.’¤”

But don’t think for a second that Valentine ever gets tired of those “perennial standbys.”

“When I’m playing, I’m very much in the moment,” she said. “Even if I’m playing something hundreds of times, I’ve never done it in that place. It’s always different.”

“My role in the band is that I’m hyper-aware of what everyone else is playing. I listen very closely to what everyone else is doing, and I do what I can to make sure everyone sounds their best. I don’t ever feel like I’m going through the motions.”

And how has the band changed since its debut 30 years ago?

“When a band is young and all live in the same town or house, there’s this juggernaut of energy that everything is synched together,” Valentine said. “That’s just for a short period of time for a band, and then you grow up. Now we live in different cities.

“We have different ways of looking at what Go-Go’s mean to us,” she said. “For me, I would really like as long as there’s interest in the band to keep doing it and have that niche in my life.”

Gina drumming at rehearsal.

Belinda dancing at rehearsal.