[Music] Bananarama tonight at the Brighon Centre

[Is it PotG?]

Enjoyed their performance in Coasters back in the day, not my cup of tea nowadays but positive that many enjoyed the Centre concert. To create a good impression on their own 35 years later and not part of an 80s regurgitation package speaks volumes.

 

[Buzzer]

JTQ?

PM sent.

Good news for those of us who still have dreams, Keren split up with Andrew Ridgeley last month so is (presumably) free and single.

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2017/1105/917653-andrew-ridgeley-and-keren-woodward-have-split-up/

 

[Buzzer]

Agree - went last night with the wife - my expectations were fairly low, but it was thoroughly enjoyable. I was slightly concerned that it would be a bit of a rip-off, but the show was very professional. Standard of singing from the girls was miles better than I remember, and the band was really good. Nice little craft beer stall in the lobby selling decent IPA, too.

I too was expecting something a bit shambolic but they were very polished despite the ad-libs and jokes between them. I was very surprised too how good their singing was. Siobhan did the high notes perfectly on Robert De Niro's Waiting and I only ever remember Siobhan's singing in isolation when she was in Shakespeare's Sister. Her voice in the original Stay With Me was so bad that the Mary Whitehouse Experience ripped it apart. I wonder if she deliberately dropped it a few notches to contrast Marcel Detroit's voice.

Skip to 36 seconds...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUgmKezH550

 

[Steve Foster]

PM sent.

Good news for those of us who still have dreams, Keren split up with Andrew Ridgeley last month so is (presumably) free and single.

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2017/1105/917653-andrew-ridgeley-and-keren-woodward-have-split-up/

First bit of good news since 3:30pm today