Stars In Their Eyes, Sunday 22nd May, THE MAZE, Nottingham
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| ASBO PEEPSHOW as The Village People |
The Maze recently held the fifth of their wildly popular Stars in their Eyes, a fun filled event showing just how entertaining some of Nottingham’s local talent can be. It takes talent to be a good musician, but it takes a true performer to put on a good show, and most of the performances were hilarious, with a lot of poetic license. While the boys were all out to get the laughs, the female vocalists were out to captivate. Alexa Hawksworth, Parisa Eliyon and Per Kie have the most beautiful quality to their voices and it’s always a pleasure hearing them sing, whatever the occasion. I am tempted to mention Liam O’kane with the ladies, as he was covering Madonna, and he was wearing a sequined tank top. No cone bra though, as the cones apparently get in the way of playing the guitar...
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| LIAM O'KANE as Madonna |
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The 'supergroup' BEAUTIFUL MOUTH as Motown
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| THE RUTHERFORDS as Duran Duran |
For some of the bands, getting the costumes ‘just right’ was even more important than getting the songs right, and a lot of effort and creativity went into the outfits. The Rutherfords in their 80’s get up, would have done Simon le Bon proud. Alex Hel and Shankland dressed as hip hop rappers covering The Beastie Boys. Arse Full of Chips in their colourful outfits as Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The Human Targets were all dressed as Elvis and the ladies in Beautiful Mouth added a bit of glitzy glamour while covering Motown classics. However, it was Asbo Peepshow and guest backing vocalist Jon Frank who stole the show with their outrageously camp outfits and performance, emulating 70’s band, The Village People.
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| ASBO PEEPSHOW as The Village People |
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ALEX HEL and SHANKLAND as The Beastie Boys
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| ROGER |
The show was compeered by Roger Caney who is affectionately known as 'Daddy'. David James started off the show as a one hit wonder, only covering one AC/DC song. He filled the rest of his set with acoustic rock classics, and entertained his audience with his quick witted sense of humour. It almost seemed as if Stanley Mackerel, more commonly known as ‘naked guy’ in Arse Full Of Chips, would manage his S Club 7 set fully clothed. His audience weren’t having any of it though and off came his trousers mid song. While some performances were clearly for laughs, others took their task very seriously such as Molotov covering Foo Fighters and Sam Wilson as Marvin Gaye. Cleaverhook delivered an amazingly good set and were spot on as Public Enemy.
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| CLEAVERHOOK as Public Enemy |
If you have ever wandered what Green Day would sound like ‘ska style’ – well it sounds very good indeed. Breadchasers sounded great covering Green Day and seemed to be having way too much fun belting out their hits. I wonder if we will see some random heaviness showing it’s way in future Breadchaser songs? They can certainly pull it off, even if they eventually trailed back into their reggae roots.
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| BREADCHASERS as Green Day |
The night ended with Stuck in 2nd who eventually gave up being Sum 41, and did what they do best, being Stuck in 2nd. Superb every time!
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| STUCK IN 2ND |
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| ASBO PEEPSHOW as The Village People |
