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Totally 80s Tour, Part 3 – Limahl

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Final part of the backstage antics during the Totally 80s tour across Australia last winter. Limahl has a drink and tells us what it was like working with Georgio Moroder to produce the song Never Ending Story.

In fact let’s all have a few drinks and meet everyone backstage.

In this show you will hear from:

Paul Lekarkis (just back from shopping)
Dave Schulz, Chris Olivias, Terri Nunn of Berlin (they have sock envy)
Ivan Doroschuk (very elusive)
Dave Sterry Real Life (he knows where the bodies are buried)
Johnno Smallman (artist liaison, I’ll let him explain it)
Katrina of The Waves (poodle and pub talk)
Martika fans from Portland in Victoria
Paul Gray (our musical director and Mr Waa Waa Nee)
Simon Shapiro (bass player and Mr 1927)

Slight mix up backstage by Maynard, holding Kamahl album, with Limahl on Totally 80s tour.
Slight mix up backstage by Maynard, with Limahl on Totally 80s tour.

Bunga Bunga

Bunga Bunga 31 Tim Ferguson & Maynard

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Tim Ferguson is off to the Edinburgh Festival with the Doug Anthony All Stars, Maynard has just returned from an Australian wide tour with lots of 80s stars. So they have a lot to talk about.

They answer your Crankmail and mention Vengaboys and Limahl.

This show Tim has some handy hints on how to start a fight while flying and how to deal with with those pesky English hecklers.

By the end of Bunga Bunga 31 we will have lived up to our usual Bunga Bunga guarantee that you will be no wiser, but you may have learned something.

Retro

Totally 80s tour, totally done

That’s the Totally 80s tour, totally done.

The Totally 80s tour finished after 13 shows across Australia with a lineup you won’t see again in a hurry.

Getting around the country with Martika (so peaceful) Limahl (the New Romantic’s New Romantic) Paul Lekakis (Mr Boom Boom) Katrina (most fun and best drinks rider), Stacey Q (see taught me about Tibetan Buddhism) Wa Wa Nee (Paul Grey was the musical director that held the show together) Men Without Hats (Ivan has a very dry sense of humour) David Sterry of Real Life (great stories of the Australian music industry to tell), Berlin (as wild onstage as ever) plus a very experienced crew and dancers Ashlea McKee & Alison Grant was a unique experience akin to a wacky 80s family on tour.

The Hobart airport morning layover was the one where we stood out the most from the locals, looking forward to returning there as Host and MC on the Vengaboys tour in November.

Thank you to all the audiences across Australia, the best show was a packed Enmore Theatre in Sydney and the strangest show was Canberra, where security spent the night making anyone who stood up to dance, sit down at the Royal Theatre.

I even managed to introduce Limahl to a Kamahl album.

All in all, a wild couple of weeks.

Let’s do it again sometime…

Review of first Totally 80s show in Melbourne, SMH

Review of last Totally 80s show in Melbourne, STM

Retro

Shameless 80s in Sydney

The first night as MC in Melbourne at the very special Palais Theatre was a cavalcade of 80s sights and sounds. Although someone forgot to tell the crew there had been an MC added to the lineup, so sometimes my mic channel wasn’t up on the front of house sound desk. Paul Grey of Wa Wa Nee is a very helpful and gracious Musical Director, who helped me fill the gaps.

But the audience is up for a variety show in the vein of an 1980s Corny Collins of Hairspray. Limahl and Terri Nunn have a great sense of humour and the the tour seems to have an air of fun about it that perhaps a Morrissey tour may not.

Enmore theatre in Sydney and already our two almost biological perfect and indistinguishable dancers have been compared to Kenny Everett’s Hot Gossip dancers in one review. I’m on the right show.

See you tonight Sydney, got to do my eyeliner the way that James Freud taught me. (we used Kohl brand pencil I think)