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BIRMINGHAM 1998 REVIEWS |
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The Independent December 1998 Nicholas Barber ...The Human League were more convincing (than ABC), but as cult oddities rather than pop giants. The women kept changing dresses, and Phil Oakey strode manfully across the stage, but this showpersonship was in stark contrast with the chilly white set and the robotic music. When Oakey intones, “It took seconds of your time to take his life”, over a severe, one-finger keyboard figure, it’s obvious that Christmas nostalgia tours are really not his scene...
The Birmingham Post December 1998 new The Boy turns Queen to reign over eighties revival
…Also answering questions on
the Eighties were Human League, per forming on a stark black aad white set
with synthesisers built into quiz- show style lecterns . But there was no
Carol Vorderman. Phil Oakey (with a very closely cropped head of hair) had
instead the world's most famous ex-cocktail waitresses, Joanne Catherall and
Susanne Sulley, who had clearly been buying some X-rated gear at the Clothes
Show Live exhibition next door.
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