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\"Bananarama<\/a><\/p>\n

As we should all know by now, we\u2019re living in the age of the reunion, a time when bands from disparate generations can coexist at once. The phenomenon isn\u2019t limited to semi-obscure acts from the \u201980s and \u201990s reforming to finally get there due, but now pop acts as well are regrouping to relive past glories and satiate the public\u2019s nostalgia for those bygone days.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always had a soft spot for Bananarama. For one, the British trio first made its mark collaborating with Specials spinoff Fun Boy Three, and its first big U.S. hit, \u201cCruel Summer,\u201d arguably one of the greatest pop singles ever, remains a perennial favorite. But though Bananarama fell off the radar of U.S. audiences years ago and Siobhan Fahey left the group in 1988, the band never broke up, with the other two members, Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward, continuing on either with other members or as a two-piece.<\/p>\n

But with Fahey rejoining the fold last year for a UK tour, the band recently ventured Stateside for its first ever U.S. dates. (Yes, you read that right: they had never done a U.S. tour before.) This New York show represented one of just four dates, and it had sold out several weeks in advance. After an extended waiting period that included a goofy DJ spinning disco and \u201980s dance tracks, the trio finally emerged with a four-piece backing band behind them, launching into their cover of The Supremes\u2019 \u201cNathan Jones.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Bananarama enjoyed their greatest commercial success with their third album, True Confessions<\/i>, it was their earlier sides that had the most character\u2014a fact seemingly not lost on the band, as much of the performance focused on their initial singles and first two albums. But while they even played their first demo \u201cAie a Mwana,\u201d they also diverted into one post-Fahey number, \u201cPreacher Man.\u201d Even more surprising, though, was that they did a rendition of \u201cStay,\u201d the big hit for Fahey\u2019s post-Bananarama project, Shakespeares Sister.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, it was songs like \u201cRobert De Niro\u2019s Waiting\u201d and \u201cReally Saying Something\u201d that most fully retained their spunky charm 30-some years after their release. Similarly, though the show had obviously been choreographed and rehearsed (the setlist was the same as at every other concert), the occasional misstep and the ladies\u2019 banter between songs showed that they weren\u2019t simply going through the motions.<\/p>\n

The other side to the band, though, was the Stock Aitken Waterman\u2013era, and the latter portion of the show consisted of dance-leaning cuts from Wow!<\/i>, the group\u2019s fourth album produced by that production team. Those few songs lost my interest, but it wasn\u2019t long before they closed out the show with the big hit (\u201cVenus\u201d) and, appropriately, their cover of \u201cNa Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye).\u201d They finished up with \u201cIt Ain\u2019t What You Do It\u2019s the Way That You Do it,\u201d the aforementioned Fun Boy Three collaboration, and another of the dance numbers, \u201cLove in the First Degree,\u201d a kind of representation of their duality in encore form. A tsunami of pop hits, camp, and nostalgia taken to the nth degree, the show was everything it should have been and perhaps more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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