Take a Chill Pill: The Totally Tubular Festival is Bringing '80s Hits to Riverbend Music Center

This summer in Cincinnati will be hella gnarly as the new Totally Tubular Festival brings back a time of big hair, MTV’s heyday and John Hughes movies.

The new music festival debuts in 17 cities across North America this June and will feature artists that helped shape pop culture in early to mid-‘80s, including Thomas Dolby, Tom Bailey of the Thompson Twins, Modern English, Men Without Hats, The Romantics, Bow Wow Wow, Tommy Tutone and The Plimsouls.

“This is a dream lineup for those who love the music of the early 1980s, and for those who want to relive the days when life was — plain and simply — a total party,” Jon Pleeter with the Totally Tubular Festival said in a press release. “You wore Day-Glo, you wore parachute pants, you had big hair, perms and more perms, mullets, leg warmers, along with tons of buttons and lots of rubber bracelets. You wore sunglasses at night. The choruses were big, and the hooks were bigger — the party didn’t end.”

The festival will wrap up its run at Cincinnati’s Riverbend Music Center on Saturday, July 27. Tickets will go on sale at ticketmaster.com and riverbend.org on Friday, Jan. 12 at 10 a.m.

A portion of proceeds from ticket sales will go toward local food banks.