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All the Wow! moments from the Bananarama reunion show
I’ve seen Bananarama in concert half-a-dozen times over the last 20 years, but yesterday was special. The original three-woman lineup (Sarah, Keren and Siobhan) is touring for the first time ever, so...
View ArticleABC,CDE × 4 = EDC,CBA
I’m a fan of FiveThirtyEight’s weekly puzzle column The Riddler. This week’s edition is a fairly simple challenge: If A, B, C, D and E are all unique digits, what values would work with the following...
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Everything that’s different in Mamma Mia’s 2018 Australian production
I saw the legendary ABBA musical Mamma Mia! at its very first public preview back on March 23 1999. Since then, I’ve seen it in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Las Vegas and Auckland, as well as revisiting...
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Shakespears Sister Nottingham 31 October 2019
So yesterday I ventured to Nottingham for the first Shakespears Sister concert featuring both Siobhan Fahey and Marcella Detroit in over 25 years. (I seem to make a habit of coming to the UK to see...
View ArticleRoxette and Marie Fredriksson: Five lesser-known classics to check out
Damn, Marie Fredriksson from Roxette has died. Obviously, everyone is talking about ‘The Look’ and ‘Joyride’ and ‘It Must Have Been Love’. But here are five less obvious songs from her extensive back...
View ArticleSix iconic Mary Wilson vocals
On 28 August 1979, Mary Wilson made her debut as a solo performer after close to two decades as the glue holding together the Supremes, the most successful US girl group ever. Midway through her set at...
View ArticleTourists and Doctor Who trails: Fact checking Jim Toomey’s We Were Tourists
The Tourists are chiefly famous as the band Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart were in before Eurythmics. That’s apparently famous enough to justify one of the other members writing a biography about their...
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ABBA 2021 new music review: I’ve been reloaded
So after 5 years of waiting, ABBA finally unveiled their new album Voyage this morning. It’s landing unexpectedly early, on 5 November. I have already pre-ordered a stupidly large number of copies in...
View ArticleFive forgotten Olivia Newton-John classics
As the world mourns Olivia Newton-John, naturally everyone’s talking about the classics: ‘Physical’, ‘I Honestly Love You’, ‘Hopelessly Devoted To You’. But Olivia had a massive back catalogue and a...
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Yep, I’ve upgraded. Head to anguskidman.show for all my latest stuff. I’ll be keeping the archives here, but some articles will get moved to anguskidman.show if I decide to update them.
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