It’s tempting to say that Bananarama rewrote the pop rulebook. The truth is that they never even read it in the first place, but for over twenty years their name has been synonymous with bright, sophisticated and authentically brilliant pop music.

The achievements speak for themselves: more hits than the Spice Girls, more albums sold than Atomic Kitten, more Band Aid appearances than the Sugababes, an entry in the Guinness Book of Records as the biggest girlgroup since The Supremes. But it’s not just what Bananarama have done – it’s the way that they’ve done it.

From the moment their debut single charted at a modest Number 93, through the triple-platinum albums and a million-selling Greatest Hits compilation, right up to date with new material set to knock the spots off any other pop group on the block, Bananarama’s story is one of a self-created, anarchic, and decidedly modern pop group with a fuck-you attitude that makes Courtney Love look like Karen Carpenter.

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