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To say it is about time that BROS did a reunion?

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MarmaladeTwatkins · 02/05/2013 11:04

I've had enough of waiting.

New Kids On the Block have did it. Take That have, too. Why haven't Bros got on the old reunion bandwagon?!

Come on blokes lads! I have my Grolsch bottle tops attached to my shoes, my denim jacket covered in button badges and stonewash jeans all ready and waiting. Make and old woman happy.

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squoosh · 02/05/2013 12:27

elQuintoConyo go back and take a proper look at that picture! He looks like a slimmer Dale Winton, only with more makeup.

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MarmaladeTwatkins · 02/05/2013 12:28

"
Did anyone else do the cutting out pics and sticking them to your folder, then 'laminating' with strips of sellotape"

YES.

I used to make collages of all the free stickers from Smash Hits/Look In! all over books and folders, laminated with sellotape. It used to take me hours.

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SarahAndFuck · 02/05/2013 12:28

I wonder what Johnny Hates Jazz looks like now? I'm reluctant to google.

The main one I mean, not the others. Clark, I think he was called. I had my hair cut to look like his girlfriend. She was a Dutch supermodel I think. I was a thirteen year old with bright green Deirdre Barlow glasses and a brace, but I had high hopes for becoming a Dutch supermodel if I could only get the hang of backcombing my fringe and somehow become Dutch .

squoosh · 02/05/2013 12:30

Johnny Hates Jazz! Loved their song 'Turn Back the Clocks', thought it was oh so melancholic Grin

God, all these bands were many shades of shite.

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MarmaladeTwatkins · 02/05/2013 12:34

Not too bad, as it happens...

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SarahAndFuck · 02/05/2013 12:37

Not bad at all. Smile

I was always in awe of his cheekbones. He had the pointiest cheekbones in the world.

squoosh · 02/05/2013 12:37

Ooooh, he looks better now than then.

Not like my one true love Zammo from Grange Hill.

AtYourCervix · 02/05/2013 12:39

Then Jericho anyone?

squoosh · 02/05/2013 12:40

I always wondered what they were referring to when they sang about their 'big area'? Hmmmmm.....

AtYourCervix · 02/05/2013 12:44

Jerico.

Mmmmmmmmm Mark Shaw

ILovedMatt · 02/05/2013 13:01

Marmalade what a brilliant idea! I loved Bros (and the opening bars of 'When Will I Be Famous?' still make me smile!).

I was so excited when I got a ticket to their concert that I fell down the stairs and ended up in A&E Grin

I'm so jealous of the light-up jacket Envy even if it did mean you had to stay beside a socket.

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MarmaladeTwatkins · 02/05/2013 13:14

Then Jericho? Mark Shaw was a preposterous twat. Now he has a face like a rubberised cat :(

ILovedMatt, did you fall downstairs AT the concert?! Shock

LOLing at Zammo! Grin He was an ugly fucker in the '80s so the chances of him ageing well were bad to zero.

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AtYourCervix · 02/05/2013 13:20

Oh Marm. You have such an excellent turn of phrase.

I'm worrying about the fire risk of your fairy light jacket.

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MarmaladeTwatkins · 02/05/2013 13:28

It probably wasn't a sensible idea by Ma Twatters. 80s fairy lights were notoriously fire-risky and the jacket was probs 100% fire-inducing nylon.

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ILovedMatt · 02/05/2013 13:29

Marmalade I fell downstairs rushing to get to the telephone to tell my friend I had a ticket. I would have been devastated if it had happened at the concert and I'd missed it.
As it was, spending a Saturday afternoon in A&E, and having a lifelong problem with my wrist, seemed a small price to pay to see Matt in the flesh Grin

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MarmaladeTwatkins · 02/05/2013 13:35

Oh thank God for that. I was imagining you falling down at the concert and missing it! Grin

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ddubsgirl · 02/05/2013 13:38

Noooooo tis a blockhead not a bros girl lol saw aha on last tour was bloody good show waiting for nkotb to tour again now :)

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MarmaladeTwatkins · 02/05/2013 13:40

NKOTB are a fucking let-down. Touring with Backstreet Boys, who aren't foit to lick the BOOTS of NKOTB, as New Kids On The Back Street. I mean, WTAF?!

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PoppyAmex · 02/05/2013 13:43

Thanks to whoever mentioned Brother Beyond, I'm now singing "The Harder I Try" on a loop and I'm pretty sure I'm scaring my baby.

ddubsgirl · 02/05/2013 13:43

Yeah didn't want a tour with them either but the show was good and bsb meant they sold more tickets and got more ads for the tour

ScrambledSmegs · 02/05/2013 13:49

I didn't 'do' boy bands after A-ha (I'm still available, Morten shoves DH and DDs in cupboard ) Bros, New Kids, they all passed me by till I fell desperately in lust with Alex James. Why, WHY did he have to sully my memories with microwaveable cheese?

I do remember Smash Hits insisting on calling Ben from Curiosity... Ben Vol-au-vent Parrot.

Oh, how we chortled Hmm

ILovedMatt · 02/05/2013 13:52

And it was always Ken for Craig from Bros . . .

Panzee · 02/05/2013 14:11

I will always be grateful to Viz for inventing Ken, and Smash Hits for running with it. :o

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MarmaladeTwatkins · 02/05/2013 14:14

ROAR at microwaveable cheese! That thread had me wheezing. I must find it.

Nathan Barley of Cheese.

Arf at Ken as well!

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squoosh · 02/05/2013 14:18

My fondness for Morten from A-Ha was dashed when I found out he was a bit right wing. Sad

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