Heartland

Has anyone seen that spiffy new programme on VH1, Bands Reunited?
It's about this chirpy Yank who travels round the world tracking down former members of 80s Bands, then persuading them to reunite for a one-off gig.

It's actually much, much more entertaining than it sounds (The Frankie goes to Hollywood one is hilarious! and rather beautiful, too - Some members of Frankie hadn't spoken in 17 years, the reunion was genuinely touching) I don't know If it's being shown worldwide, but here in Blighty it's on tonight, back to back:

7:00 - Kajagoogoo
8:00 - Flock of Seagulls
9:00 - Frankie goes to Hollywood
10:00 - Kajagoogoo (again??! Bloody VH1!)
11:00 - Squeeze
12:00 - Berlin

I live in Hope that they'll do a Sisters one. I very much doubt they'll be able to persuade Von, Gazza, Craig and Ben to enter the same room together.
I'm dying to know if Ben Gunn is bald...

Yes I have seen the episodes for Flock of Seagulls and The Alarm.

It's actually pretty good. And I agree the reunions are rather touching.

I saw the Kajagoogoo on the other day and have to say i was nearly in tears.... a very touching programme, made all the more poignent if you have yourself played in a band.

Im going to set the video now to get the rest of them!

Cheers Shuck !

Paddy.

VH1, eh? Would this be this new-fangled stattelite behaviour? I'm afraid that I shall not watch anything other than the BBC.

Or Channel 4.

Or videos.

Or DVDs.

I'll get me coat.

markfiend wrote:VH1, eh? Would this be this new-fangled stattelite behaviour? I'm afraid that I shall not watch anything other than the BBC.

Or Channel 4.

Or videos.

Or DVDs.

I'll get me coat.

ITV 1
7.30
Be there.

It's against my religion to watch ITV

Or football, come to think of it

markfiend wrote:It's against my religion to watch ITV

Or football, come to think of it

hey, you're pretty cool for a Mac user!

Black Shuck wrote: I live in Hope that they'll do a Sisters one. I very much doubt they'll
be able to persuade Von, Gazza, Craig and Ben to enter the same
room together.
I'm dying to know if Ben Gunn is bald...

Well if anyone here has an insight to what Mr Marx might be up to it
has to be our very own Quiff Boy.

Just put those subliminal flash animations in the GD site coding:

"You want to perform with Andy and Craig again."

We ahve VH1 here in Sweden. UK version. I will look tonight.

Erudite wrote:

Black Shuck wrote: I live in Hope that they'll do a Sisters one. I very much doubt they'll
be able to persuade Von, Gazza, Craig and Ben to enter the same
room together.
I'm dying to know if Ben Gunn is bald...

Well if anyone here has an insight to what Mr Marx might be up to it
has to be our very own Quiff Boy.

Just put those subliminal flash animations in the GD site coding:

"You want to perform with Andy and Craig again."

have you been peeking at the test site?

"Bands Reunited" is great! It aired here in the States a few months ago. I was pissed off with the Frankie Goes To Hollywood episode and I liked the Flock Of Seagulls episode more than I thought I would.

I almost forgot! A new season is supposed to air in the summer. There was a poll on VH1's website asking who should reunited. The majority of the votes went to the Thompson Twins. I'd love to see that one!

I must watch more often VH1 channel.

dee902 wrote:I almost forgot! A new season is supposed to air in the summer. There was a poll on VH1's website asking who should reunited. The majority of the votes went to the Thompson Twins. I'd love to see that one!

The Thompson twins???!
I mean, they were a perfectly good band and all, but how on earth did they win the poll?
Who else was in the poll? Classix Nouvaex? Department S? Vapours?

Black Shuck wrote:Who else was in the poll? Classix Nouvaex? Department S? Vapours?

The Jags, Visage, Fiction Factory, The Fixx, Intaferon?

NEXT!

This was the choice. It's obvious why Thompson Twins comes out first.


Which band would you like to see reunite?

Nu Shooz
Exposé
Soul II Soul
Europe
Naked Eyes
The Thompson Twins
T'Pau
'Til Tuesday
Vixen
Winger

dee902 wrote:the Thompson Twins. I'd love to see that one!

Isn't the woman Thompson Twin dead? I just have this feeling of having read about this about 6 years ago.

I'd like to see:
The Glitter Band
Bauhaus
The m*****n
British Rail
The Icicle Works

Black Planet wrote:This was the choice. It's obvious why Thompson Twins comes out first.
Nu Shooz
Europe
The Thompson Twins
Vixen [/i]

Heard of those ones, and aren't Europe playing festivals this year?

Gripper wrote:Bauhaus

see Gotham.

British Rail would be good tho,

Arsenal 1-2 Chelsea

The Glitter Band were a separate entity BH.

Not always to be found with Mr Gadd

Gripper wrote:

dee902 wrote:the Thompson Twins. I'd love to see that one!

Isn't the woman Thompson Twin dead? I just have this feeling of having read about this about 6 years ago.

nope

but: "Alannah’s sister died suddenly of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in the winter of 2000"

http://www.investigatemagazine.com/jan3GE.htm

Ed Rhombus wrote:The Glitter Band were a separate entity BH.

Not always to be found with Mr Gadd

Thankyou, Ed. That's what I meant.

@ Black Shuck - Cheers again m8.... left the video on whilst gigging in Leeds last night, got all of them and will have a good watch tonight!

Ta muchly.

Paddy.

Who knows? perhaps in twenty years time, the Sisters of Murphy will be featured...

You are all going to p*ss yourself i know, but the Berlin one was a stormer.... i mean two of them in a relationship for 13 years, bad split, then bad band split.... Drummer not seen by anyone for 20 years.... just diessapeared during the recording of an album.

"sob"

Paddy.