80s Mix Tape
at Darley Park, Derby
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Get practising your best bouffant for a nostalgic night of music featuring Bananarama, Haircut 100 and BBC Radio 2 DJ Gary Davies. 80s Mix Tape takes you back to the era where leggings were a staple, and the music was epic. Another line up of 80s superstars will be on hand to provide the nostalgic music of your teenage self would have been eagerly waiting to tape off the Sunday Top 40 for.
Bananarama will be making sure it won’t be a Cruel Summer with their appearance at 80s Mix Tape.
The Fizz will join the 80s Mix Tape line up !! Members of the original Eurovision winning group, Bucks Fizz, Cheryl Baker and Jay Aston, will now be joined by Matthew Pateman, former lead singer of Bad Boys Inc and Nikk Mager who appeared on Popstars: The Rivals.
Haircut 100 the band originally formed back in 1980 in Beckenham London. Over 40 years on the band have recently become a summer festival favourite.
Gary Davies has enjoyed an epic career in music for over 40 years. Having worked at both BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2, Gary has established himself as the authority on 80s music.
Joining us once more is local Derby band Cassette Roulette - a 5-piece band made up of full-time professional musicians and two of the best female singers around.
The Fizz
Bucks Fizz became one of the UK's biggest pop acts after winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981 with their famous skirt-ripping dance routine. Their song, Making Your Mind Up, went to number one in nine countries, and was followed by hit singles including My Camera Never Lies and Land of Make Believe. More than 30 years on, the original members of Bucks Fizz - Cheryl Baker & Jay Aston, are joined by founding member Mike Nolan and are still ripping skirts off to cheers from thousands of fans old and new.
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Bananarama
The girl group that defined the '80s are back to their original, record-breaking line-up! Since their unforgettable last performance as a trio on The Brits in 1988, Keren and Sara continued as Bananarama, releasing records and touring to global audiences. Siobhan went on to have hit singles and albums around the world as part of Shakespears Sister before becoming a solo artist. Bananarama made it into the Guinness Book Of Records as the most successful female group of all time on account of the fact they’d had more hit singles than any other girl band ever. To date they have had 30 chart hits. They hit the top of charts around the world. In the US, Venus became their first #1 single on the Billboard chart. Their combined record sales were over 40 million.
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Haircut 100
Of all pop’s shining, fiery comets, Haircut 100 burnt brightly, gave off heat, changed the landscape, and then, as fast as they appeared, were gone, leaving many happy memories. For 18 months or so in the early 1980s, Haircut did their thing. Who can forget songs as joyous and memorable as Fantastic Day, Love Plus One and Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl) and the accompanying album, the mighty, flirty and flighty Pelican West. It was already platinum-certified in the UK only three months after release. The album spent 11 consecutive weeks in the British Top 10 and twice reached No. 2. It also charted in the US, Australia and beyond. “Haircut 100 were a revelation,” Mickey McCarter wrote for Parklife DC about the band’s show at Columbus Athenaeum in 2024. “Nick Heyward and company delivered these tunes with an upbeat boyish charm that had everyone in the venue feeling good . . . It was truly remarkable to see Haircut 100 in action. Here’s to hoping these Englishmen tour American venues again in the near future.” Well, even in today’s somewhat crazy world, wishes can still come true. Haircut 100 are returning, basking in the moment, revelling in rekindled friendships, emboldened by new material, their catalogue of hits sounding better each play and ready to take the show back on the road.
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Gary Davies
Gary Davies is a leading BBC Radio DJ, who has enjoyed a career packed with mixing the sounds of various music styles and generations. He is the presenter of 'Sounds of the 80s' on BBC Radio 2, and also regularly steps in to fill the space of Sara Cox, Zoe Ball and Ken Bruce.
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on Fri 29 August 2025