Some fun events this summer celebrating our PLR 50th! We’ve been loving our orders of circle stickers​ from Sticker Mule. Check them out!
Throwback Concert: RUSH at New Haven Coliseum 1978
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1978! That year PLR presented RUSH at New Haven Coliseum. Joining them in New Haven were fellow rockers Blue Oyster Cult. Rush hit the road in 1978 to support their fifth studio album “A Farewell To Kings,” which featured…
Throwback Concert: AC/DC at The Shaboo Inn 1978
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1978! Remember the old Shaboo Inn in Willimantic? The venue lasted a little over a decade and it closed its doors forever in May 1982. Before its closing, The Shaboo Inn was one of the premier concert venues in…
Throwback Concert: Bruce Springsteen at New Haven Coliseum 1978
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1978! That year PLR presented Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band at New Haven Coliseum. Springsteen hit the road in 1978 to support the “Darkness on the Edge of Town” album, which featured such hits as Prove It…
Throwback Concert: Steve Miller Band at New Haven Coliseum 1992
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1992! That year PLR welcomed the Steve Miller Band to New Haven Coliseum. This was Steve Miller’s first time playing at the Coliseum and his first time playing a show in New Haven since 1968’s performance at Yale’s Woolsey…
Throwback Concert: RUSH at New Haven Coliseum 1992
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1992! That year PLR welcomed RUSH with special guest Primus to New Haven Coliseum. RUSH hit the road in ’92 to support their fourteenth studio album “Roll The Bones,” which featured such singles as Dreamline, Ghost of a Chance,…
Throwback Concert: “Weird Al” Yankovic at Toad’s Place 1992
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1992! That year PLR welcomed Weird Al Yankovic to Toad’s Place. Weird Al hit the road in 1992 to support his seventh studio album, “Off The Deep End,” which featured such singles as Smells Like Nirvana and You Don’t…
Throwback Concert: U2 at Toad’s Place 1981
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1981! That year PLR welcomed U2 to Toad’s Place. In the spring of 1981, an up-and-coming band named U2 rolled into New Haven and played a club show at Toad’s Place on York Street. This actually wasn’t their first…
Throwback Concert: Van Halen at New Haven Coliseum 1981
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1981! That year PLR welcomed Van Halen to New Haven Coliseum. Eddie and the boys hit the road in 1981 to support their fourth studio album, “Fair Warning,” which featured such hits as So This Is Love?, Mean Street…
Throwback Concert: AC/DC at The XL Center 1981
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1981! That year PLR welcomed AC/DC to Hartford’s XL Center (which at the time was called the Hartford Civic Center). The boys from Australia hit the road in 1981 to support its eighth studio album, “For Those About To…