Bananarama news

FOR breeders Peter and Lorraine Perrin, the deluge at Dapto on Thursday night delivered the perfect storm. While not having a runner on the 10-race card, the Bargo-based breeders were represented by three youngsters out of the former high-class Wentworth Park sprinter Bananarama in the Country Winnebago Puppy Classic final over 297 metres.

Actor George Lindsey (“The Andy Griffith Show’’) is 76. Art Neville of the Neville Brothers is 74. Actor Ernie Hudson (“Ghostbusters”) is 66. “Hardball” host Chris Matthews is 66. Actor-comedian Eugene Levy is 65. Actor Barry Livingston (“My Three Sons”) is 58. Actor Bill Pullman is 58. Director Peter Farrelly (“Dumb & Dumber’’) is 55. Singer Sarah Dallin of Bananarama is 50. Actor Giovanni ...

Clearly getting fusty in my old age, yesterday I felt unable to hide concerns when Ed Miliband flirted with embracing hip-hop as a cornerstone of the next Labour manifesto. While Ed eventually stepped away from the precipice during an interview with youth channel SBTV – (in fairness, he's known to be more of a Bananarama man) – big brother David is busy making his own overtures to the music ...

The troubled Rewind Festival continued to crumble at the weekend with '80s mega-group Bananarama declaring they would no longer be part of the star-studded line-up.

Jump on it. Just Dance 3 boasts a toe-tapping total of 49 musical tracks, Ubisoft has announced. It launches today on Wii and Xbox 360. The list is a diverse medley of music, from pop group Brahms' Hungarian Dance no. 5 to Venus by classical composer Bananarama. Bizarrely, fictional popstar Robin Sparkles' breakthrough hit Let's Go to the Mall is also included - all of which will make no sense ...

Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells released a quite wonderful album earlier this year, with Michael Wheeler waxing lyrical about it, and giving it 9/10 . Fully deserved, don't you think. There's a new EP on the way from them, released on October 17 through Chemikal Underground. Excitingly the EP has a cover of Bananarama's 'Cruel Summer' and we've got the video for it. Yeah. Watch it here!

BANANARAMA. Wollongong. Camping. Put them together and what have you got? I know. I thought that too.

Kool and the Gang, Sister Sledge and Bananarama are among the 80s stars set to headline the Rewind Festival when in debuts in Australia this October.

Featuring the sons of Dave Stewart (Eurythmics) and Siobhan Fahey (Bananarama), there is little surprise that the debut EP from LA-based Nightmare And The Cat already sounds like a seasoned band. Sam and Django Stewart marry their experience in Blondelle and Midnight Squires, respectively, with the...

The opening song on Bananarama's second album is called Cruel Summer and it must be what's going through the heads of the Astana right now.

PROMOTER Green Eye Events said it had been unable to secure the right artists for an Osborne House concert this year. Will Young and Bananarama headlined last year’s two-day event, with Simply Red headlining in 2009.