Atomic: The Songs Of Blondie Live

Name: Atomic: The Songs Of Blondie Live
Start: 2026-08-01T19:00:00+10:00
End: 2026-08-01T19:00:00+10:00
Location: Thornbury Bowls Club

About

Atomic: The Songs Of Blondie arrives at Thornbury Bowls Club on Saturday 1 August for a special extended performance celebrating the music, influence and enduring legacy of Blondie. Performing two full sets across the evening, Atomic revisits the band’s remarkable catalogue - from the raw energy of New York’s downtown club scene to the era-defining records that transformed Blondie into one of the most adventurous and influential groups of the late twentieth century.

Emerging from the CBGB circuit alongside artists such as Talking Heads and Television, Blondie fused punk urgency with pop instinct, art-school aesthetics, disco rhythms and new wave experimentation. Songs such as Heart Of Glass, Dreaming, Atomic, Call Me, One Way Or Another and Rapture remain woven into popular culture, while deeper album tracks reveal the breadth, sophistication and invention that set the band apart from their contemporaries.

Rather than presenting a straightforward greatest-hits tribute, Atomic approaches Blondie’s music with a focus on musicianship, detail and historical context, balancing the iconic singles with lesser-known material drawn from across the band’s catalogue. The result is a performance that captures both the immediacy of Blondie’s classic recordings and the restless spirit that drove them beyond the conventions of punk and pop.

Atomic is led by Anthea Palmer alongside Stu Thomas (Dave Graney & The MistLY, Kim Salmon & The Surrealists), Mike Dupp (The Methinks, The Futurists), Victor Stranges (The Methinks, The Futurists) and Garry Allen (Crossbones Boogie, Kahuna Daddies) - musicians with decades of live and recording experience, united by a deep respect for the material and the era that produced it.

Limited collector ticket bundles are available, including exclusive 180g vinyl editions of Blondie classics "Parallel Lines" and "Eat to the Beat", collected on the night of the performance.

A night for longtime devotees, record collectors, New York romantics and anyone still drawn to the collision of punk attitude, pop intelligence and rock ’n’ roll electricity that made Blondie endure.