Everlasting pop duo Bananarama have revealed that they plan to return to the recording studio for anew album.
Appearing on the British game show ‘Pointless Celebrities’ Keren and Sara said their next album would be recorded in Nashville and have a pop and country flavour.
The album will be the girls eleventh. Their first single was released way back in 1981.
Meanwhile the girls have shared their disappointment that their first six albums have been repackaged and released without their involvement.
“We’re disappointed that we weren’t involved with the release of the albums and that demos we considered not good enough at the time are now included,” the duo posted to their website.
For die hard fans of the band though the re-released albums contain a number of tracks and clips not previously easily available.
The re-released albums are all three discs long, featuring the album, bonus tracks, remixes, videos and TV appearances.
The bands debut ‘Deep Sea Skiving’ (1983) comes with additional tracks, all have been released before, plus a bonus disc of remixes and a third disc containing promo videos and live appearances on ‘Top of the Pops’, ‘6:55’ and ‘Saturday Superstar’. Second album ‘Deep Sea Skiving’ has a video of the band singing ‘Michael Row the Boat Ashore’ on television plus a zillion remixes. The third album ‘True Confessions’ has the band singing ‘Too Much of A Good Thing’ (not the Kylie song) a previously unreleased song.
The mega selling ‘Wow’ album comes with a previously unheard of track called ‘Reason for Living’ which is an earlier version of their hit ‘I Want You Back’, while ‘Some Boys’ is a new track on the follow up album ‘Pop Life’. The band’s sixth album has no new tracks but a mountain of previously unheard of remixes. The re-released albums can be purchased through Amazon.
Watch Bananarama on ‘Pointless Celebrities’ below. The other guests on the show include 5ive, Mike Rutherford, Ali Campbell from UB40, Sheila Ferguson and the legendary Sandie Shaw.
