Who said time travel is impossible?
Certainly not a group musicians who got their start in Richmond, rose to local prominence in the 1970s and ’80s and are staging a second reunion gig to take their fans back four decades with music from their youth.
That’s right, Thor is back on stage one more time Jan. 24 at South Arm Hall. Tickets — actually wristbands — go on sale Jan. 10 and 11 at the Pumphouse Pub and are expected to go quickly, said bass player Brad Kilburn, one of Thor’s founding members. He and his pre-teen friends were a garage band that graduated to play just about every local school dance over two decades.
In January 2013, the group — Kilburn and fellow James Whiteside elementary school friends Jimmy Coletsis (guitar) and Martin Tanaka (drums), reunited with Johnny Fatiaki (guitar), Korianna Tylor (keyboards) and Steve Braithwaite (vocals) — to play for a sold out audience.
Since then, there’s been calls for an encore.
“Pretty much as we were leaving the stage, and about every day since that show, I’ve been asked when we were going to get together again,” Kilburn said.
The venue — South Arm Hall — also figures prominently since it was where Thor played many of their shows back in the day.
“That’s where we used to hang out when we we’re kids. We’d play the Sardine Queen event in the tennis courts near the hall.”
Wristbands for the all-ages show are $20. Sales at the Pumphouse Pub (6031 Blundell Road) will run both days from 7-9 p.m.
More information about Thor can be found on their Facebook page.
