A Rare Screening of Styx’s "Kilroy Was Here" Tonight at NW Film Forum

Who remembers 1983 anymore? Sandwiched uncomfortably between 1982 and 1984, it never really got the respect it deserved, even at the time. But if anything can sum up that year, I think it has to be Styx’s concept album Kilroy Was Here. This is where that “domo arigato, Mr. Roboto” thing came from. And if you’ve ever thought to yourself, “Don’t let it end,” then the album has a track just for you.

Tonight at 8 p.m.–ah, one brief night only!–Northwest Film Forum is screening the concert documentary Kilroy Was Here, along with the short video the band created to get you up to speed on this futuristic war against rock, and the poofy-haired rebels who will give The Majority For Musical Morality the fight of their censorious lives.

Sadly, that was not the case for the actual band–one fan says the album “put the final nails in the coffin of Styx.” From today’s vantage point, we are in a rare position to appreciate the artistry of the work, which is why the Western Bridge Gallery’s Eric Fredericksen will introduce the movie. Then–and only then–Styx will rock the night once more.