DREAM THEMES & JOANNE JOANNE'S CHRISTMAS PARTY

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Guided Missile Special People Club presents a festive double header featuring Dream Themes and Joanne Joanne!

DREAM THEMES
http://dreamthemes.tv/
Formerly the backing band for the mighty Frank Sidebottom, Dream Themes perform exuberant, rowdy, funpacked versions of classic television themes, from Grange Hill to Grandstand, from Casualty to Crimewatch, mixing up costume changes, onstage arguments and audience games with telly tunes both new and old.

JOANNE JOANNE
http://www.joannejoanne.co.uk/
Forming in Birmingham in 1980, Duran Duran quickly evolved out of the New Romantic scene that spawned them and by 1984 were the biggest pop band on the planet. But in the eyes of many fans, it’s the first two albums, Duran Duran and Rio that carry the strongest resonance and are held in the greatest affection.
Here the lines begin to blur. Famously ‘fusing the Sex Pistols with Chic’ (!), Joanne Joanne – five London based female musicians (including, too perfectly, two Joannes) – conceptually align themselves with Duran’s classic 1981/ 1982 oeuvre, performing faithfully – and exclusively – songs from that period, out of love - and as Nick Rhodes might have once quipped ‘for aesthetic reasons’.
‘Sound Of Thunder’, ‘Planet Earth’, ‘The Chauffeur’, ‘Hold Back The Rain’ and all the rest are vividly, weirdly brought back to life by the five. Not only that, but collectively - and with tongues firmly in their cheek - Joanne Joanne inhabit the recent memory of the time: The early days at the Rum Runner, Le Bon’s summer on an Israeli Kibbutz in ‘79, that ‘81 Old Grey Whistle Test appearance - all are referenced in onstage banter, particularly from ‘Andy’. It’s a lot of fun.

They ‘don’t do Rio’.
But they do do the Night Versions.
And the B-sides. Plus the odd wild card might sometimes be thrown in as a surprise.