Bananarama Announce 40th Anniversary London Show For April
Wednesday, 18 October 2023
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Mark Mattock
Bananarama have announced a special London show celebrating 40 years of hits.
Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward will take over the Palladium for The Ultimate Party on April 3, with tickets for the performance on general sale at 9am on October 25.
Alongside the news, the duo have released a new single, Feel The Love, a euphoric electro-pop track. It'll appear on their new album, 'Glorious - The Ultimate Collection', the follow-up to 2022's Masquerade', due out on March 8. Commenting on the 40-track record, Dallin said:
"We wanted this to be a unique collection, a celebration of all the twists and turns in our career. We compiled endless lists of songs, album tracks and hit singles and whittled it down to forty: our favourite tracks from the past four decades. Leafing through my early lyric books transported me back to that teenage girl writing poems and scribbles that would eventually be turned into songs. Each track is a piece of the jigsaw and a connection to me. Together they create the bigger picture, the story of us as artists. It has been one almighty journey."
Woodward added: "At times we have maybe felt that we haven’t received the credit, respect, and recognition we deserve, certainly sometimes purely down to the fact we were born female. I feel the collection of songs we have amassed over the last four decades hopefully speak for themselves, so I don’t have to. Putting the music together for this project made me realise how much we have achieved and how determined, tenacious, and hard-working we are."
As part of their 40th anniversary celebrations, the pair also dropped a revamp of their 1983 hit Cruel Summer, Cruel Summer (3AM Mix), in July of this year. That was followed by August's Venus (Boys Noize Rework), a fresh take on their 1986 single Venus.
'Glorious - The Ultimate Collection' tracklist:
CD1 / vinyl sides A-C
1. Really Saying Something
2. Cruel Summer
3. Robert De Niro's Waiting
4. Venus
5. More Than Physical
6. A Trick of the Night
7. I Heard a Rumour
8. Love in the First Degree
9. Only Your Love
10. Preacher Man
11. I Could Be Persuaded
12. Movin' On [Disco Chic]
13. Last Thing on My Mind [Electrified]
14. Every Shade of Blue
15. Take Me to Your Heart
16. Prove Your Love
17. If
18. Crazy
19. Move in My Direction
20. Look on the Floor (Hypnotic Tango)
CD2 / vinyl sides D-F
1. Feel for You
2. Lovebite
3. Love Comes
4. Love Don't Live Here
5. Seventeen
6. Extraordinary’
7. Baby It's Christmas
8. Now or Never
9. La La Love
10. Stuff Like That
11. Looking for Someone
12. I'm on Fire
13. It's Gonna Be Alright
14. Favourite
15. Masquerade
16. Forever Young
17. Running With The Night
18. Cruel Summer (3am Mix)
19. Feel The Love
20. Supernova
CD3 Deluxe Edition / digital only
1. Robert De Niro's Waiting (The Reflex Revision)
2. Do Not Disturb (Krystal Klear New Wave Mix)
3. Venus (Boys Noize Rework)
4. Only Your Love (Initial Talk Remix)
5. Tripping on Your Love (Metropolis Mix)
6. Now or Never (Extended Version)
7. Tonight (Bright Light Bright Light Remix)
8. Stuff Like That (Extended Version)
9. Velvet Lies (Luke Million Remix)
10. Masquerade (Castle Elvira Mix)
NEW // I Heard A Rumour... that @VivaBananarama are in town! 🤩
Celebrating 40 years of hits, the iconic pop duo invite you to The Ultimate Party, busting out some of their biggest tracks LIVE at the @londonpalladium on April 3.
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