Bored-zees Decide: Live Aid 1985 Alternative Line Up UK

18-07-2020 2:22pm #1

I had a smashing day by the TV back in 85' watching this spectacle from start to finish- and wouldn't change a thing- until now

I hated the US/Philadelphia concert- the worst Led Zep performance ever, Bob Dylan being a dick talking about US farmers, Madonna- need i say more? So let's forget that part of it and concentrate on the proper show, the Wembley Stadium Stage UK live line up only.

How to play:

Below are the artists that played live sets on the Wembley stage. You have a chance to kick out 5 acts (except for the Finale) and replace them with an alternative act.

The rules are:
1. They must have been alive and already established as international artists (so no Elvis's or Nirvana's please)
2. They didn't feature in the Philadelphia or other live/video link up's throughout the day (so that excludes, INXS, Simple Minds, Tom Petty etc etc (full list of artists at both concerts at the link below)
3. You don't have to give reasons for your choices but in the event of a tie-breaker, the reasons will become significant
4. The 5 bands/artists with the most votes will be eliminated- we'll then see who the replacement artists are based on the tally of alternative nominations -
5. I'll let this run for a week or so and see how it's doing- please tell your bored friends

to get involved- the more voting the better

My votes are:
OUT:
Adam Ant (was irrelevant at that stage)
Nik Kershaw (one hit wonder boy- should never have been considered)
Howard Jones (couldn't stand him)
Elton John/Kiki Dee/Wham (Elton still remains in his solo slot)
Freddie Mercury/Brian May (Queen of course, remains)

IN:
Thin Lizzy (apparently they were never asked to play- such a pity)
Eurythmics (Annie Lennox had voice problems at the time)
Talking Heads (apparently they turned down a request to appear)
UB40- Reggae was so big in the UK in the early/mid 80's but you wouldn't think it from the current line up
Madness (apparently they were not together as a band at this time)

12.02 Status Quo
12.19 Style Council
12.44 Boomtown Rats
13.00 Adam Ant
13.16 Ultravox
13.47 Spandau Ballet
14.07 Elvis Costello
14.22 Nik Kershaw
14.55 Sade
15.18 Sting
15.35 Phil Collins
15.50 Howard Jones
16.03 Bryan Ferry
16.38 Paul Young / Alison Moyet
17.20 U2
18.00 Dire Straits and Sting
18.44 Queen
19.22 David Bowie
20.00 The Who
20.50 Elton John
21.05 Elton John / Kiki Dee / Wham!
21.48 Freddie Mercury / Brian May
21.51 Paul McCartney
21.54 McCartney / Bowie / Pete Townshend / Alison Moyet / Bob Geldof
21.56 UK finale from Wembley

http://liveaid.free.fr/pages/liveaidtimesdetaileduk.html

Eduard Khil · 18-07-2020 2:30pm

Out Adam Ant

In Culture Club

Boy George was off his proverbials and couldn't make the line up someone get him clean and they could have wowed the crowd at this one.

d8491prj5boyvg · 18-07-2020 2:32pm

Didn't the Who play in Wembley also? Not on your line up

18-07-2020 2:36pm

Eduard Khil wrote: »

Out Adam Ant

In Culture Club

Boy George was off his proverbials and couldn't make the line up someone get him clean and they could have wowed the crowd at this one.

Feel free to vote up to 5 IN/Out's

Bentley CoolS Grapefruit wrote: »

Didn't the Who play in Wembley also? Not on your line up

Sorry & thanks-an over-deletion on my part as I was separating out the US appearances.

18-07-2020 2:53pm

Eduard Khil wrote: »

Out Adam Ant

In Culture Club

Boy George was off his proverbials and couldn't make the line up someone get him clean and they could have wowed the crowd at this one.

It's actually very interesting reading up on who didn't appear and why.You're on the money about BG at the time and a pity, considering he sung on the Christmas single

https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/lifestyle/entertainment/boy-george-why-culture-club-didnt-take-part-in-live-aid/

One of the biggest criticisms of the concert was the lack of black artists. The US part of the show was promoted by Bill Graham and apparently he warned off artists rather than encourage them to appear. America also had the "We are the world" charity single, so there was a bit of tension and mis-trust I think against the Live Aid side, so a lot of the American black artists seemed to vote en-block not to appear on the show.

Saying that, I'm trying to think of very successful UKI based black artists at the time who were over-looked- I've mentioned UB40 and Thin Lizzy- Eddie Grant comes to mind but at the time, he wasn't performing well in the charts before his return to success in 87' with Gimmie Hope Joanna.

Eduard Khil · 18-07-2020 8:43pm

All honesty I'd add The Pogues and take out Howard Jones

Out Howard Jones

In The Pogues

The Pogues were founded in London they would have added to the Irish element of Live Aid.

Capt'n Midnight · 18-07-2020 8:54pm

Eduard Khil wrote: »

Boy George was off his proverbials and couldn't make the line up someone get him clean and they could have wowed the crowd at this one.

Love the Bob Geldofs version of the Live Aid single story.

“I called him and said: ‘Get in a car and get the Concorde.’
And the laziest f*** in the world gets up and gets in a car and gets on Concorde and arrives at 6pm.”

Name dropping for now

Shakin' Stevens as a warm up act

Kate Bush
New Order,
Altered Images,
The Specials
Heaven 17
The Police
A-ha
Tears For Fears
Level 42
Billy Idol
Fine Young Cannibals
The Cult
Strawberry Switchblade
Gary Moore & Phil Lynott
Pet Shop Boys

ZZ Top
Jean Michel Jarre
Billy Joel

Beasty · 18-07-2020 8:56pm

I would have replaced Bryan Ferry with Roger Waters and put Nick Mason on the drums....

The Spandaus were the act I could not bear to waste valuable negatives on though - AC/DC were the one band I would have liked to have seen ahead of a number of the New Romantics that day

Of course there was only one Freddie

Declan A Walsh · 18-07-2020 9:57pm

First off OP: Nik Kershaw was not a one hit wonder! Are you one of the people who think his only hit was Wouldn't it be Good?? Well, it wasn't! Here's some more for starters: I Won't Let the Sun Go Down on Me, The Riddle, Human Racing and Wide Boy and I know there were a few more! Incidentally, I Won't Let the Sun etc. reached No. 2 and The Riddle reached No. 3 in the UK Charts! Wouldn't It be Good reached No. 4!

Now that I've got that off my chest (!)....

Five Out - this is not easy as I enjoyed most of them:
Ultravox
Howard Jones
Elton John / Kiki Dee /Wham
Boomtown Rats (if one forgets what this was all about in the first place!!)
Status Quo

Five In (difficult for a different reason - hard to keep it down to five)
New Order - wonderful blend of indie pop/rock and technology and maybe a bit of Goth rock in attitude and lyrics (not the music though!)

The Smiths - great jangly guitar music from Johnny Marr and wonderfully morose charisma of Morrissey!

Tears for Fears - great synth-based rock and vocals

Peter Gabriel - Great voice and interesting songs (yes, I know this was before has mega seller So!)

Talk Talk - always interesting music

18-07-2020 9:58pm

@ Captn'tMidnight- some serious choices there- will be interested in seen you're final 5 and who you kick out.

@ Beasty- yes indeed- even then, your instincts around the longevity or otherwise of the New Romantics was spot on

Looking forward to seeing the 5/OUT 5/IN choices of all- hope this thread gets some traction and we can have a good olde discussion along the way too. The journey, and discussion which is encouraged on this thread BTW, will be as interesting as the end result.

18-07-2020 10:04pm

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

First off OP: Nik Kershaw was not a one hit wonder! Are you one of the people who think his only hit was Wouldn't it be Good?? Well, it wasn't! Here's some more for starters: I Won't Let the Sun Go Down on Me, The Riddle, Human Racing and Wide Boy and I know there were a few more! Incidentally, I Won't Let the Sun etc. reached No. 2 and The Riddle reached No. 3 in the UK Charts! Wouldn't It be Good reached No. 4!

HA HA!

I knew I'd get someone's back up

Yes I know, he's not a "one hit wonder"- he's really a 2 hit wonder

:p:p:pac:

"Wouldn't it Be Good" and "I won't let the sun" were bleedin massive back in the day- the others, less so in terms of irish radio play- OK, put it this way, you get 2 free tickets to a Nick Kershaw concert- what do you do? I know what I'd do...stay in the bar until the encore and listen to "Wouldn't it be good" and "I won't let the sun" -

:D:D

Thanks for supporting the thread BTW and best of luck

edit- PS- I was going to suggest The Smiths myself, and thought i"d be breaking my own rules around "Internationally known" - they were still a relatively unknown band outside the underground in July 85 and they probably wouldn't have been in the top 10 mix if a few of the actual bands pulled out, but I knew there would be a number of voters for The Smiths, so not getting into semantics on rules here- The Smiths, absolutely, and they would have been brilliant.

Declan A Walsh · 18-07-2020 10:10pm

Deleted User wrote: »

HA HA!

I knew I'd get someone's back up

Yes I know, he's not a "one hit wonder"- he's really a 2 hit wonder :p:p:pac:

"Wouldn't it Be Good" and "I won't let the sun" were bleedin massive back in the day- the others, less so in terms of irish radio play- OK, put it this way, you get 2 free tickets to a Nick Kershaw concert- what do you do? I know what I'd do...stay in the bar until the encore and listen to "Wouldn't it be good" and "I won't let the sun" - :D:D

Thanks for supporting the thread BTW and best of luck

I know! I know! I just couldn't let it go! And I might add that he was more than a two hit wonder as well! I listed five of his hits there, but there were a few more!

I'm curious how this "alternative line up" will work out, especially as the most popular answers are going to be knocked out!

18-07-2020 10:14pm

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

I'm curious how this "alternative line up" will work out, especially as the most popular answers are going to be knocked out!

I'm just waiting on someone to knock-out Queen- they'll need Mod protection on this thread :P

Declan A Walsh · 18-07-2020 10:16pm

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm just waiting on someone to knock-out Queen- they'll need Mod protection on this thread :P

Anyone who knocks Queen out did not see the see their performance on Live Aid!

Necro · 18-07-2020 10:34pm

Declan A Walsh wrote:

Anyone who knocks Queen out did not see the see their performance on Live Aid!

The man speaks the truth. Interested to see how this develops not sure who i would remove and who I would put in yet.

18-07-2020 10:39pm

Necro wrote: »

The man speaks the truth. Interested to see how this develops not sure who i would remove and who I would put in yet.

Welcome to the LiveAid party Necro & thanks for your interest.

@ All- to keep things simple (for me), I'll look for your FINAL 3/4/5 votes for IN/OUT towards the end of next week - it will make the tally that bit simpler. I'll review mid-week and those who have posted their final votes, I'll include as a mid-week update.

thanks again

Beasty · 18-07-2020 10:58pm

Out:
Coldstream Guards
Spandau Ballet
Nick Kershaw
Adam Ant
Howard Jones

In:
AC/DC
Pink Floyd
Thin Lizzy
Peter Gabriel
Kate Bush

Interestingly (to me anyway) my first concert after Live Aid was AC/DC at Manchester Apollo exactly 6 months to the day after Live Aid

Angus' hair was a lot less than kempt that day:

the purple tin · 19-07-2020 7:55am

Swap Howard Jones for Rory Gallagher, I saw Geldof on an interview saying what an amazing performer Rory was, the best he's ever seen. Why didn't you ask him to play then you muppet?

Spandau Ballet for Deep Purple. They had the classic line-up with Blackmore in 85.

Elton John and Kiki Dee for The Pogues. Some great songs they could have played. Add a bit of attitude to the proceedings as well.

Kershaw out, Van Morrison in. Brown eyed girl would have been a great crowd pleaser.

The Coldstream Guards for the The Blues Brothers band. 'We're getting the band back together for Live Aid' it would have been awesome.

19-07-2020 8:16am

Out
Ultravox
Sade
Style Council
Nik Kershaw
Howard Jones

In
The Wolfe Tones
The Pogues
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
Blondie
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts

fran38 · 19-07-2020 8:50am

Out:
Boomtown Rats
Adam Ant
Nik Kershaw
Howard Jones
Mercury/ May

In:
Jean Michel Jarre
Vangelis (With Jon Anderson)
Pink Floyd
Mike Oldfield (Maggie Reilly/Roger Chapman)
AC/DC

AndrewJRenko · 19-07-2020 11:31am

fran38 wrote: »

Out:
Boomtown Rats

Ah here.

OK, so Bob's a dickhead, but he made the day happen.

The moment where he sang 'What reason do you need to die?' and froze with his arm in the air will stay with me till the day I die. I get a real chill down my spine whenever it is repeated.

Declan A Walsh · 19-07-2020 6:18pm

Can I change for Five Out selection?

NewbridgeIR · 19-07-2020 6:30pm

Nik Kershaw had five top 10 hits (his *Irish* song The Riddle reached #3) and two more reached the top 20. When A Heart Beats peaking at #27 broke the spell. Like Paul Young and Howard Jones (all played Live Aid), their third albums all emerged in 1986 and were much less successful. Quality wise, they were fine.

OUT
The Who (a spent force by 1985)
Adam Ant (maybe two years too late)
Freddie Mercury & Brian May (nice playing of Is This The World We Created but give someone else a shot)

IN
Tears For Fears (massive then and should have played. Everybody Wants To RUN The World for Sports Aid was scant consolation)
Kate Bush (a live appearance then showcasing the upcoming Running Up The Hill plus say Wuthering Heights & Baboohska would have been ace)
Frankie Goes To Hollywood (Two Tribes is my favourite single of all time - would have been great)

fran38 · 19-07-2020 10:50pm

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Nik Kershaw had five top 10 hits (his *Irish* song The Riddle reached #3) and two more reached the top 20. When A Heart Beats peaking at #27 broke the spell. Like Paul Young and Howard Jones (all played Live Aid), their third albums all emerged in 1986 and were much less successful. Quality wise, they were fine.

OUT
The Who (a spent force by 1985)
Adam Ant (maybe two years too late)
Freddie Mercury & Brian May (nice playing of Is This The World We Created but give someone else a shot)

IN
Tears For Fears (massive then and should have played. Everybody Wants To RUN The World for Sports Aid was scant consolation)
Kate Bush (a live appearance then showcasing the upcoming Running Up The Hill plus say Wuthering Heights & Baboohska would have been ace)
Frankie Goes To Hollywood (Two Tribes is my favourite single of all time - would have been great)

Maybe a little too hot to handle at the time re: Relax and the BBC ban

AndrewJRenko · 20-07-2020 8:30am

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Nik Kershaw had five top 10 hits (his *Irish* song The Riddle reached #3) and two more reached the top 20. When A Heart Beats peaking at #27 broke the spell. Like Paul Young and Howard Jones (all played Live Aid), their third albums all emerged in 1986 and were much less successful. Quality wise, they were fine.

OUT
The Who (a spent force by 1985)
Adam Ant (maybe two years too late)
Freddie Mercury & Brian May (nice playing of Is This The World We Created but give someone else a shot)

IN
Tears For Fears (massive then and should have played. Everybody Wants To RUN The World for Sports Aid was scant consolation)
Kate Bush (a live appearance then showcasing the upcoming Running Up The Hill plus say Wuthering Heights & Baboohska would have been ace)
Frankie Goes To Hollywood (Two Tribes is my favourite single of all time - would have been great)

I love your 'IN' choices, but your 'spent force' is currently scheduled for a very large tour, while most others are on the scratcher!

https://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/the-who-tickets/artist/945180

20-07-2020 3:59pm

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

Can I change for Five Out selection?

I've just tallied all votes in/votes out- so tell me your original 5 and new 5 please and I'll update my summary post accordingly

20-07-2020 6:06pm

OUT: story so far - those in bold most likely to go at present

Howard Jones 6 Votes
Elton John / Kiki Dee /Wham 3 Votes
Boomtown Rats 1 Vote
Elton John 1 Vote
Status Quo 1 Vote
Adam Ant 4 Votes
Nik Kershaw 5 Votes
Freddie Mercury/Brian May 2 Votes
The Who 1 Vote
Coldstream Guards 2 Votes
Spandau Ballet 2 Votes
Sade 1 Vote
Style Council 1 Vote
Ultravox 1 Vote

IN: so far suggestions and votes

Kate Bush 2 Votes
Tears for Fears 2 Votes
Peter Gabriel 2 Votes
The Pogues 2 Votes
Thin Lizzy 2 Votes

All others 1 Vote so far:

Rory Gallagher
Deep Purple.
Van Morrison
The Blues Brothers band.
New Order
The Smiths
Talk Talk
AC/DC
Pink Floyd
The Wolfe Tones
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
Blondie
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
Jean Michel Jarre
Vangelis (With Jon Anderson)
Pink Floyd
Mike Oldfield (Maggie Reilly/Roger Chapman)
AC/DC
Eurythmics
Talking Heads
UB40
Madness
Frankie Goes To Hollywood

20-07-2020 6:08pm

Eduard Khil wrote: »

Out Adam Ant

In Culture Club

Boy George was off his proverbials and couldn't make the line up someone get him clean and they could have wowed the crowd at this one.

Eduard Khil wrote: »

All honesty I'd add The Pogues and take out Howard Jones

Out Howard Jones

In The Pogues

The Pogues were founded in London they would have added to the Irish element of Live Aid.

I haven't included your votes yet as you didn't provide a 5. in 5 out- if the above are all you wish to vote for, then that's great, I'll include in the above tally.

Eduard Khil · 20-07-2020 6:28pm

AC/DC came out saying they didn't like the attention attached to the event they preferred to do their philanthropic endeavours anonymously.

Gotta hand it to them in one sense they're musicians and Bono is a loud mouth and Geldof is known mainly for a misquote associated with Live Aid.

Declan A Walsh · 20-07-2020 6:38pm

Eduard Khil wrote: »

AC/DC came out saying they didn't like the attention attached to the event they preferred to do their philanthropic endeavours anonymously.

Gotta hand it to them in one sense they're musicians and Bono is a loud mouth and Geldof is known mainly for a misquote associated with Live Aid.

You don't know Bob Geldof was the lead singer of an Irish band that had a number of hits in the UK in the '70s and the first half of the '80s, including two Number 1s? The Boomtown Rats were the first Irish rock band to get to Number 1 in the UK Singles Charts! Anyway I would have thought he was more famous for Band Aid than something he was misquoted as saying at Live Aid!

Eduard Khil · 20-07-2020 6:44pm

He never said give us your fcukin money is my point, that is all I'm emphasizing here in this context.

Declan A Walsh · 20-07-2020 6:48pm

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

……………………………………………………………………..
Five Out - this is not easy as I enjoyed most of them:
Adam Ant (replaces Ultravox)
Howard Jones
Elton John / Kiki Dee /Wham
Elton John (replaces Boomtown Rats)
Status Quo

Five In (difficult for a different reason - hard to keep it down to five)
New Order - wonderful blend of indie pop/rock and technology and maybe a bit of Goth rock in attitude and lyrics (not the music though!)

The Smiths - great jangly guitar music from Johnny Marr and wonderfully morose charisma of Morrissey!

Tears for Fears - great synth-based rock and vocals

Peter Gabriel - Great voice and interesting songs (yes, I know this was before has mega seller So!)

Talk Talk - always interesting music

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

Can I change for Five Out selection?

Deleted User wrote: »

I've just tallied all votes in/votes out- so tell me your original 5 and new 5 please and I'll update my summary post accordingly

See two amendments above. Thanks.

20-07-2020 6:59pm

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

See two amendments above. Thanks.

I've reflected those changes now in the tally on page 2- cheers

NewbridgeIR · 20-07-2020 7:37pm

AC/DC & Metallica - neither act has released a Best Of or Greatest Hits compilation yet. Must be the longest hold-outs.

JP Liz V1 · 20-07-2020 9:43pm

In

Bruce Springsteen
Thin Lizzy
Blondie
Michael Jackson
The Ramones

Out

Nik Kershaw
Simple Minds
Adam Ant
The Who
Boomtown Rats

Eduard Khil · 21-07-2020 3:57pm

Out

Howard Jones
Status Quo
Adam Ant
Nik Kershaw
Sade

In

Culture Club
The Pogues
Kate Bush
Thin Lizzy
Shirley Bassey

Only one I think I need to explain is Shirley Bassey who at this point in 1985 was on a major charity drive in London for local services and would have added to the vocals of the two singles if included in the line up. She could have done a great duet with Kate Bush as well.

21-07-2020 8:16pm

UPDATE: Just a few days left to vote:

OUT: (The Top 5 at the end of the week will be gone to be replaced by the Top 5 from the IN crowd

Howard Jones 7 Votes
Elton John / Kiki Dee /Wham 3 Votes
Boomtown Rats 2 Votes
Elton John 1 Vote
Status Quo 2 Votes
Adam Ant 6 Votes
Nik Kershaw 7 Votes
Freddie Mercury/Brian May 2 Votes
The Who 2 Votes
Coldstream Guards 2 Votes
Spandau Ballet 2 Votes
Sade 2 Votes
Style Council 1 Vote
Ultravox 1 Vote

IN: so far suggestions and votes

Kate Bush 3 Votes
Tears for Fears 2 Votes
Peter Gabriel 2 Votes
The Pogues 3 Votes
Thin Lizzy 4 Votes
Blondie 2 Votes

All others 1 Vote so far:

Rory Gallagher
Deep Purple.
Van Morrison
The Blues Brothers band.
New Order
The Smiths
Talk Talk
AC/DC
Pink Floyd
The Wolfe Tones
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
Jean Michel Jarre
Vangelis (With Jon Anderson)
Pink Floyd
Mike Oldfield (Maggie Reilly/Roger Chapman)
AC/DC
Eurythmics
Talking Heads
UB40
Madness
Frankie Goes To Hollywood[/QUOTE]
Bruce Springsteen
Michael Jackson
The Ramones
Culture Club
Shirley Bassey

22-07-2020 12:25pm

Can I vote someone back in that others want voting out?

Reberetta · 22-07-2020 12:26pm

OUT:
Coldstream Guards...who?
Elvis Costello
Nik Kershaw
Style Council
Status Quo

IN
Prince
Michael Jackson
The Cure
Blondie
Kate Bush

22-07-2020 5:53pm

Will keep open till weekend and hopefully close out then, depending on interest. (This is a nice quick tournament so don't want to drag it out too much. Thanks all for voting so far, keep the votes coming in in the style of 5 Out 5 In please.

OUT: (The Top 5 at the end of the week will be gone to be replaced by the Top 5 from the IN crowd

Howard Jones 7 Votes
Elton John / Kiki Dee /Wham 3 Votes
Boomtown Rats 2 Votes
Elton John 1 Vote
Status Quo 3 Votes
Adam Ant 6 Votes
Nik Kershaw 8 Votes
Freddie Mercury/Brian May 2 Votes
The Who 2 Votes
Coldstream Guards 3 Votes
Spandau Ballet 2 Votes
Sade 2 Votes
Style Council 2 Votes
Ultravox 1 Vote
Elvis Costello 1 Vote

IN: so far suggestions and votes

Kate Bush 4 Votes
Tears for Fears 2 Votes
Peter Gabriel 2 Votes
The Pogues 3 Votes
Thin Lizzy 4 Votes
Blondie 3 Votes
Michael Jackson 2 Votes

All others 1 Vote so far:

Rory Gallagher
Deep Purple.
Van Morrison
The Blues Brothers band.
New Order
The Smiths
Talk Talk
AC/DC
Pink Floyd
The Wolfe Tones
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
Jean Michel Jarre
Vangelis (With Jon Anderson)
Pink Floyd
Mike Oldfield (Maggie Reilly/Roger Chapman)
AC/DC
Eurythmics
Talking Heads
UB40
Madness
Frankie Goes To Hollywood[/QUOTE]
Bruce Springsteen
The Ramones
Culture Club
Shirley Bassey
Prince
The Cure

22-07-2020 6:01pm

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

Can I vote someone back in that others want voting out?

Strictly 5 In 5 Out voting method as others have done- your choice who goes, who comes in but its then down to the votes of all to decide (unless tie break and reasons come into play)

Reberetta wrote: »

OUT:
Coldstream Guards...who?

(I've included your votes in the above update.

Yeah, indeed. Look, I wasn't going to get hung up on rules and regulations too much on this thread. While I assumed the bands in scope on the Live Aid UK stage, from Status Quo kick off onwards, some rather clever individual took my "UK Stage" stipulation literally, and snuck in the Coldstream Guards, who did indeed perform on stage - I was going to disallow that but you know what, who cares. And they're gathering "out" votes so I'm going to leave as-is- If they achieve "out" status, I'll have great fun choosing an artist and a song to accompany the Prince and Princess of Wales into their seats so all good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP120YaAL8w

the purple tin · 22-07-2020 6:02pm

Reberetta wrote: »

OUT:
Coldstream Guards...who?
Elvis Costello
Nik Kershaw
Style Council
Status Quo

IN
Prince
Michael Jackson
The Cure
Blondie
Kate Bush

A military band. They played the theme tune to Dad's Army

22-07-2020 6:08pm

I’m gonna get thinking of bands to add in.

I distinctly remember Phil Collins played in Wembey then jumped on a jet a played stateside too. Should he be in the lineup?

22-07-2020 6:15pm

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

I’m gonna get thinking of bands to add in.

I distinctly remember Phil Collins played in Wembey then jumped on a jet a played stateside too. Should he be in the lineup?

I'm aware of that. He played UK stage. He's in the line up. Like I said, I'm keeping this simple. But

I'm totally excluding all other US stage acts from being included as replacements to UK stage acts- so for example, Bob Dylan played US stage- so you can't replace him with Nick Kershaw

22-07-2020 7:04pm

Out

Elton John / Kiki Dee /Wham
Boomtown Rats 2 Votes
Coldstream Guards
Ultravox
Elvis Costello

IN:
Simple Minds
Tears for Fears
Bananarama
UB40
Frankie Goes To Hollywood

22-07-2020 7:38pm

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

Out

Elton John / Kiki Dee /Wham
Boomtown Rats 2 Votes
Coldstream Guards
Ultravox
Elvis Costello

IN:
Simple Minds
Tears for Fears
Bananarama
UB40
Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Simple minds played US- excluded- pick a different act for them instead and I’ll update then

22-07-2020 8:17pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Simple minds played US- excluded- pick a different act for them instead and I’ll update then

I’ll add bronski beat instead please

NewbridgeIR · 22-07-2020 9:21pm

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

I’ll add bronski beat instead please

Jimmy Somerville left them in summer 1985.

22-07-2020 9:29pm

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Jimmy Somerville left them in summer 1985.

Ah FFS. I’m gonna think about this for a little bit longer

Beechwoodspark · 22-07-2020 9:51pm

Jacko and Springsteen have to be in

Declan A Walsh · 22-07-2020 10:34pm

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Jimmy Somerville left them in summer 1985.

The Bronski Beat continued without Jimmy Somerville. They had a hit with Hit that Perfect Beat with their first replacement John Foster. The keyboard wizards were Steve Bronski and the late Larry Steinbachek......
Although, I think they were between singers that summer so, yeah, they could not have performed in July.

Just on a side note: According to Wikipedia, Jimmy Somerville's musical partner in his next band The Communards - Richard Coles - was an early member of The Bronski Beat. I never knew that. He does play the clarinet in It Ain't Necessarily So.

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