Hell revisited: Stock Aitken Waterman acts reunion gig

[elbows]

Arghhghg:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17431482

Steps, Jason Donovan, Sinitta and Sonia are among a host of Stock Aitken Waterman acts that will perform at a special reunion concert this summer.
The gig will bring together nearly all the artists who found fame on the PWL record label to mark its 25th anniversary.
Ricky Astley, Bananarama, Pepsi and Shirlie and Brother Beyond will also feature on the line-up.
The concert will take place in London's Hyde Park on 11 July.
Fans can also expect appearances from Dead or Alive, Princess, Hazell Dean, Sybil, Lonnie Gordon and 2 Unlimited, while the concert will be headlined by Steps.

Also they strongly hint at Kylie & Jason doing their duet again, such are the joys of 2012.

 

[yardbird]

Come on, it's pop music innit.
It's a laugh and I must admit Bananarama were well interesting

 

[Reno]

You didn't even need Thatcher and AIDS to make the 80s shit. They alone were enough.

 

[killer b]

Come on, it's pop music innit.
It's a laugh and I must admit Bananarama were well interesting

They were better before they took the sawmill dollar though.

Fwiw I don't have total hate for SAW - some of their hi-nrg is really good, and dead or alive had some tunes. On the whole its a woeful lineup though.

 

[Reno]

The only one SAW produced hit I like is by Divine and that's due to sheer force of personality. The rest is about as horrible as pop music ever got.

 

[editor]

I used to like Dead or Alive. Do you think any gay folks might possibly attend this gig?

 

[paulhackett]

Perfect occasion for pulling.. should move this from music to health and relationships

 

[yardbird]

Lots of musicians/engineers/riggers/crew are going to be gainfully employed.
Okay, maybe "gainfully" is pushing it a bit.

 

[editor]

I went out with a girl in a SAW act. They were a flop though so didn't get past the one single.

 

[ska invita]

The only one SAW produced hit I like is by Divine and that's due to sheer force of personality. The rest is about as horrible as pop music ever got.

Mel & Kim were great - check out this video

 

[fractionMan]

2 Unlimited!

 

[Reno]

Mel & Kim were great - check out this video

I don't have to check it out, it burned itself on my retina when it was a hit.

Marionettes !

 

[ska invita]

I don't have to check it out...

oh I think you do....

 

[elbows]

Come on, it's pop music innit.
It's a laugh and I must admit Bananarama were well interesting

Yeah I know, but abusing them can also be a laugh. I'm glad I was young at the time, and that early MTV Europe saved me from this stuff at just the right time (my peers weren't into music at the time and I didn't hang round record shops or listen to the right radio stations, so the Astra 1A satellite saved me).

Anyway my brother had a Kylie & Jason calendar so sibling rivalry also plays a part.

Although thinking about it to be honest I think The Only Way is Up by Yazz & The Plastic Population wound me up more than anything SAW did. I would say 'what were Coldcut thinking?' but having seen how the quality of their output declined with much later Coldcut releases it seems their potential for cheese was always lurking and the Yazz track was an early warning.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Time to revive the "In Praise of SAW" thread:
http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/the-in-praise-of-stock-aitken-waterman-thread.45610/

 

[editor]

I found the single my old girlfriend did with SAW. It's a total rip off of 'Frankie' with every imaginable 1980s production sound thrown in. It's hilarious!

I went out with the blond one, and can say with some authority that there's been a bit of artistic licence in that cover artwork.



I think the B side was actually alright though.

 

[ska invita]

What have SAW got to do with Silly Games now?

 

[ska invita]

I think the B side was actually alright though.

that old trope

 

[Kaka Tim]

Pete waterman was actullay a key figure in the whole west midlands ska revival/two tone thing in the late 70s.
Bizzarely without him two tone etc may not have happened.
For me this takes him off the list come the glourious day - maybe a few years in a cultural re-education camp instead.

 

[editor]

I photographed Sonia once! Chirpy Liverpudlian etc.

 

[editor]

Pete waterman was actullay a key figure in the whole west midlands ska revival/two tone thing in the late 70s.
Bizzarely without him two tone etc may not have happened.
For me this takes him off the list come the glourious day - maybe a few years in a cultural re-education camp instead.

Pete Waterman is mad keen on steam railways and has bought loads of locos and rolling stock, and on that basis all previous sins are forgiven.

 

[killer b]

Time to revive the "In Praise of SAW" thread:
http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/the-in-praise-of-stock-aitken-waterman-thread.45610/

Music forum was fucking great in them days.

 

[Dan U]

I think the B side was actually alright though.

it would need to be

 

[killer b]

Pete waterman had his finger in as many pies as he has fingers. He owned eastern bloc records in manc too iirc, which had a big input to the northern rave scene.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

What have SAW got to do with Silly Games now?

The cover version by Lindy Leyton (of Beats International and Hardknox), iirc.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Waterman's autobiography is fucking great.

 

[colacubes]

Well, I'm not ashamed to say that I would go to this if I was given a ticket. And I'd probably love it tbf

 

[ska invita]

The cover version by Lindy Leyton (of Beats International and Hardknox), iirc.

*shudder

 

[Fozzie Bear]

*shudder

it would be fair to say that it isn't quite as good as the original, yes.

 

[xes]

Do you think any gay folks might possibly attend this gig?

Most certainly not this one!!

I'd rather shit a burning fridge.