Well, this is something to do to take my mind off being in and out of hospital, pumped full of drugs and emphatically over the relentless same same Coronavirus/lockdown posts that have infected social media for most of the past year. There ARE other things to talk about, he says indefatigably.
Oh, but in this quick list TWO acts are a cotton-picking lie. Bet you can’t guess which.
It’s as easy as… Mind the gap.
Aretha Franklin 2015
Blondie (and Debbie Harry*) 1989*, 1990*, 1991*, 1993*, 1998, 1999, 2000*, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019
Cure 1997, 2016
Divine 1987
Eurythmics (and Annie Lennox*) 1988, 1989, 1999, 1992*, 2007*, 2018*, 2019*
Father John Misty 2019
Gary Glitter 1991 (yes, I know…)
Human League 1998, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2008
Iggy Pop 1987, 1991, 1996, 2019
Johnny Marr 2015, 2017
Kraftwerk 2004, 2013, 2019
Lady Gaga 2009 2010
Madonna 1990 1993 2000 2001 2004 2005 2006 2008 2012 2016 (yes, I still know…)
Nina Simone 1998, 1999
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (OMD) 2010, 2019
Pet Shop Boys 1989, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
Queen 1986
Roxy Music 2001, 2005
Spafford 2019
Thomas Dolby 2013
U2 1992
Visage 2002, 2005
Whitney Houston 1988
Xxaj Tnemesab (work it out) 2005, 2019
Yazoo 2008
Ziggy Marley 2019
Steve Pafford (no, I’ve never been to me)
