Men at Work and Toad the Wet Sprocket to Perform at The BayCare Sound

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Men at Work and Toad the Wet Sprocket will be live in concert at The BayCare Sound with special guest Shonen Knife on Saturday, July 18 at 7 pm. Tickets go on sale Friday, January 23 at 10 am.

Men At Work were born in Melbourne, Australia in the middle of 1979. The band went on to become a globally successful GRAMMY winning, multi-platinum selling act, during the early 80's. The original band, however, came apart relatively quickly and had disintegrated by 1985. Colin Hay and Greg Ham responded to demand and toured many parts of the world as Men At Work from 1996 into the 2000s. Sadly, Greg Ham passed away in 2012. Founding member Colin Hay has developed a solo career over the last 35 years, writing, recording, and touring extensively throughout the world as a solo artist. He is presently part of Ringo Starr's All Starr Band. Since 2019, he has also toured and played under the Men At Work banner with his LA based group of musicians, where he plays an exclusively Men At Work set, including all the hits and dearly loved songs which clearly have stood the test of time.

Toad The Wet Sprocket – Any music fan who grew up in the ‘90s, before the rise of streaming platforms, will tell you that when a record store clerk made a music recommendation, you took it seriously. Often, well-studied music nerds, these unsung tastemakers had their finger on the pulse of lesser-known, excellent bands. So it speaks volumes that many of Toad the Wet Sprocket's earliest champions were record store clerks who put the Santa Barbara quartet's early albums into unsuspecting listeners' hands, convincing them to overlook their unusual band name and give them a shot, perhaps comparing them to R.E.M. And that's all it took. Lead singer Glen Phillips' heartfelt, introspective lyrics expressed in his deep, buttery croon backed by the earnest instrumentation, catchy melodies and vocal harmonies of guitarist Todd Nichols, bassist Dean Dinning and drummer Randy Guss had fans hooked from the outset. Toad's debut album, Bread & Circus, recorded DIY-style in a tract home for a meager $600 and released independently in 1988, was raw and unvarnished but clearly captured Toad's magic as a band. The record caught the attention of major label Columbia Records, which re-released it unchanged the following year. Columbia also put out Toad's acclaimed sophomore album, Pale, which the band recorded in Los Angeles while they were shopping for record labels, in 1990 — also in its original form at the band's insistence. Even with everything that's changed over the last few decades, one of the band's main drivers has remained the same since they first started performing together in high school: bringing people together to experience music as a binding force and to help them feel like they belong.