Doroschuk dances his way in safety to Australia

Ivan Doroschuk, musician from Canadian band ‘Men Without Hats’, is looking forward to visiting Tasmania with the Totally 80’s tour, as he has been told it is very much like Halifax on Canada’s West Coast. At the time of our chat Ivan was getting acclimatised to Sydney and in between rehearsals, exploring Australia which he calls ‘gorgeous’.

The Men Without Hats singer originally considered a quite different career than music studying communications and graphic art at university, however, it seemed everyone at Uni at that time were forming bands and so too, did Ivan. The Men Without Hats name came about because of the necessity to wear hats in the extreme cold weather in Canada and the idea that real men went without.

Ivan is prolific as a lyricist, at one time having 15 songs on the go at once.

He wrote the song ‘The Safety Dance’ because of his own experience of being omitted from clubs for the punk dance of pogoing, jumping up and down in one spot. Says Ivan ‘The song is a gift to the rebellious everywhere’ a message not to be uniform but to dance in your own way’.

Ivan has been doing the 80’s tours for five years now and remarks how great it is to see generational fans. The original 80’s music fans attending concerts with their children.

Ivan is glad he is visiting Tasmania because he is aware of the logistical difficulties it sometimes poses for touring acts to reach as an island just like Vancouver Island in Canada which also sometimes misses out on touring act.

However no such worries this time as ‘Totally 80s ‘is visiting Tasmania please get out an support them at the Wrest Point Entertainment Centre Friday 22nd July at 8.30pm.
Paula Xiberras