Pop icon says ‘sad’ goodbye to legendary 80s band before being replaced by new members

Eurovision Song Contest victor Mike Nolan has expressed his sadness astatine having to accidental goodbye to his clip playing with The Fizz.

The 69-year-old played his past gig with archetypal Bucks Fizz members Cheryl Baker and Jay Aston connected Wednesday.

The radical has been connected signifier for much than 40 years either arsenic their archetypal manifestation arsenic Bucks Fizz oregon arsenic the rotation disconnected group.

Bucks Fizz, made up of Nolan, Baker, Aston and Bobby G, won Eurovision for the UK successful Dublin successful 1981.

Their winning introduction was the opus Making Your Mind Up, which went viral (in a 1980s way) for the creation regular that saw the skirts of the 2 pistillate members ripped disconnected to uncover shorter skirts.

But their emergence to the apical didn’t extremity there, and they were capable to execute the uncommon feat of turning Eurovision occurrence into euphony manufacture success, yet releasing 3 fig 1 singles and 1 apical 10 medium successful the UK.

After the performance astatine The Stag successful Sevenoaks, Nolan told the PA quality agency: ‘It was stressful – not horrible stressful, conscionable a spot of a worry, due to the fact that we wanted it each to beryllium good.

‘And our drummer had an accident, and helium couldn’t bash the gig. He’s been with america for the past five, six, 7 years, and a drummer… came successful to instrumentality his place, and the feline was perfectly brilliant.’

Usually, the set opens performances with a mash-up of 1980s covers, but decided to lone execute Bucks Fizz numbers successful honour of their last clip connected signifier together.

Nolan continued: ‘We did a mates of songs we hadn’t done for years, we couldn’t retrieve the lyrics for immoderate of them and it conscionable each fell into place.

‘It was conscionable unbelievable, determination was screams and everything similar that. It’s bully we had our ears successful due to the fact that we wouldn’t beryllium capable to support successful tune.

‘It was a large mode to for it to extremity for me. I was sad, but very, precise blessed arsenic well, it was brilliant.’

The Dublin-born vocalist has been a cardinal subordinate of the radical since its inception, but is acceptable to determination connected to different projects.

He went on: ‘I americium going to miss it, but I’m besides not sorry.

‘When we had that clip disconnected successful lockdown, each of a abrupt – and it wasn’t conscionable maine – the full satellite came to a standstill, and it was truly weird.

‘I was doing a batch of walking astir and we were disconnected for a long, agelong time, and erstwhile we went back, I didn’t privation to spell back, I conscionable didn’t privation to spell back.’

He went connected to accidental that astatine a definite constituent helium had conscionable had enough, sharing that Cheryl was precise upset by his departure but that Jay understood.

He has been replaced successful The Fizz by Matthew Pateman, the erstwhile pb vocalist of 1990s lad set Bad Boys Inc, and Nikk Mager of Phixx, who appeared connected ITV endowment amusement Popstars: The Rivals.

The quality of Nolan’s replacements was primitively revealed on BBC Radio 2, sparking a question of anticipation arsenic the radical embarks connected a caller epoch successful their decades-spanning career. 

After Nolan announced that helium was leaving earlier this year, Cheryl and Jay enactment retired an advert calling connected members of the nationalist to audition for the radical with 2 caller spots vacant. 

On the poster titled Making Our Mind Up, the advert stated: ‘Legendary 80s popular radical seeking 2 experienced antheral singers.’ 

It seems the set recovered what they were looking for successful Pateman and Mager.

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