**Kajagoogoo Newsletter 16 ** 13 May 2009 [Kajagoogoo News Letter]
Tour News
KAJAGOOGOO
SPACE CADET TOUR 2009
REUNITED WITH ORIGINAL LINE UP FOR FIRST UK TOUR IN 25 YEARS!
Kajagoogoo’s original five members -
Limahl (Lead Vocals), Nick Beggs (Bass/Vocals),
Steve Askew (Guitar/Vocals), Jez Strode (Drums) and
Stuart Croxford Neale
(Keyboards/Vocals) have reunited to tour the UK for the first time in 25 years.
This intimate tour starts at Liverpool’s O2 Academy on 17th September and culminates at Southampton’s The Brook on 1st October.
The band, discovered by Duran Duran’s Nick Rhodes, had a bitter split into two factions just eight months after their debut single ‘Too Shy’ topped the UK charts in February 1983. The band has now reconciled and have since rediscovered the magic that brought them together in the first place.
Limahl: “It took us 25 years to grow up, basically. All this silly stuff - ‘if you want to talk to me, talk to my lawyer’ But now we’re back together, it’s a relief. When you get to our age, you know you’re half way through your life or more; you know this is not a rehearsal, it’s the real thing.” Armed with newly written songs available as an EP, Nick is optimistic about the reunion “if it ain’t fun, it ain’t worth doing”.
Kajagoogoo’s success was instant - the pop-perfect ‘Too Shy’ became a number one in 23 countries (and Top 5 in America) the ‘Ooh To be Aah’ follow-up went top ten, ‘Hang On Now’ Top 20 and the debut album White Feathers Top 5 and went on to sell 3 million albums. After the split, the four remaining members regrouped with Nick on vocals and their next single ‘Big Apple’ reached a respectable number eight. But Limahl’s focal presence couldn’t help but be missing. Their next single ‘The Lion’s
Mouth’ only just made the Top 30. After second album Islands (number 35 in the UK) the band split once more. Limahl went onto have solo success with ‘Only For Love’ (Top 20) and then the No’ 1 smash ‘The Never Ending Story’ (theme song to the film of the same name) written by Giorgio Moroder and featured on his debut album ‘Don’t Suppose’.
KAJAGOOGOO
SPACE CADET TOUR 2009
REUNITED WITH ORIGINAL LINE UP FOR FIRST UK TOUR IN 25 YEARS!
Kajagoogoo’s original five members -
Limahl (Lead Vocals), Nick Beggs (Bass/Vocals),
Steve Askew (Guitar/Vocals), Jez Strode (Drums) and
Stuart Croxford Neale
(Keyboards/Vocals) have reunited to tour the UK for the first time in 25 years.
This intimate tour starts at Liverpool’s O2 Academy on 17th September and culminates at Southampton’s The Brook on 1st October.
The band, discovered by Duran Duran’s Nick Rhodes, had a bitter split into two factions just eight months after their debut single ‘Too Shy’ topped the UK charts in February 1983. The band has now reconciled and have since rediscovered the magic that brought them together in the first place.
Limahl: “It took us 25 years to grow up, basically. All this silly stuff - ‘if you want to talk to me, talk to my lawyer’ But now we’re back together, it’s a relief. When you get to our age, you know you’re half way through your life or more; you know this is not a rehearsal, it’s the real thing.” Armed with newly written songs available as an EP, Nick is optimistic about the reunion “if it ain’t fun, it ain’t worth doing”.
Kajagoogoo’s success was instant - the pop-perfect ‘Too Shy’ became a number one in 23 countries (and Top 5 in America) the ‘Ooh To be Aah’ follow-up went top ten, ‘Hang On Now’ Top 20 and the debut album White Feathers Top 5 and went on to sell 3 million albums. After the split, the four remaining members regrouped with Nick on vocals and their next single ‘Big Apple’ reached a respectable number eight. But Limahl’s focal presence couldn’t help but be missing. Their next single ‘The Lion’s
Mouth’ only just made the Top 30. After second album Islands (number 35 in the UK) the band split once more. Limahl went onto have solo success with ‘Only For Love’ (Top 20) and then the No’ 1 smash ‘The Never Ending Story’ (theme song to the film of the same name) written by Giorgio Moroder and featured on his debut album ‘Don’t Suppose’.
