Limahl – UK BBC TV Alert
News today of Limahl’s forthcoming appearance on the BBC TV game show ‘Pointless’.
Renamed Pointless Celebrities, this ‘Boyband Brilliance’ celebrity special airs on BBC1 in the UK this Saturday at 5:40pm. For those who have never seen the programme, Pointless is a quiz in which contestants try to score as few points as possible – plumbing the depths of their general knowledge to thinks up those elusive answers that nobody else can!
Presenters Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman preside over some great guest musicians, with appearances by Mark King, Toyah Willcox, Carol Decker, Limahl, Dave Hill, Dave Bartram, Antony Costa and Scott Robinson.
The show will also be available via BBC iPlayer in the UK . Just click on the below logo to be redirected:
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Kajagoogoo Interview – ‘The Split’ – Melody Maker 1983
The subject of the Kajagoogoo split of 1983 is one that no fan enjoys to relive, but in nevertheless a major event in the history of the band. Today, we publish scans of an interview piece originally printed on August 20th 1983, which is of course, exactly 31 years ago today. The interview is with the remaining four members of Kajagoogoo and broaches the sensitive issue of what actually happened on that fateful day back in early August….
* Back in 1983, Melody Maker was published in a format similar to a modern day tabloid newspaper – we have tried our best to scan the pages on a standard A4 scanner. This was quite a tricky task, so please excuse any obvious joins, smears, or other blemishes *
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KajaFax will soon be publishing scans of the interview detailing Limahl’s version of events, also taken from Melody Maker.
Stay tuned!
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Jason Carter And Nick Beggs
Friday is finally here, and with it comes welcome news of some live shows featuring Kajagoogoo’s Nick Beggs. Regular KajaFax visitors to may have seen this event in our ‘Live’ section, or alternatively on Nick’s Facebook page. If you haven’t, here is all the information that you need to book your reservation for an evening of great music in the very heart of London!
“The guitarist and Chapman Stick player collaborate to perform contemporary jazz…”
See Nick live at the Pizza Express Jazz Club, 10 Dean Street, London, W1D 3RW:
Thursday 28th August 2014
Friday 29th August 2014
Tickets are available by phoning the venue direct on 020 7437 9595
or online here:
http://www.list.co.uk/event/20644215-jason-carter-and-nick-beggs
This is sure to be a great night of music! For more information on Jason Carter, check out his website.
Thanks for visiting KajaFax.
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A vintage interview forms today’s slice of ‘goo, as we rewind to the August of 1983.
These scans are taken from a rather rare edition of the News of the World’s sunday colour supplement, ‘Sunday’ magazine. We think that surviving copies of this mag must be pretty thin on the ground, 31 years after it first went on sale! This is an interesting interview in many ways, but mainly for the fact that at the time it went to press, Limahl will have been on the verge making his Kajagoogoo exit.
The magazine went on sale 31 years ago today.
We hope that you enjoy these vintage scans. KajaFax will soon return with more quality Kajagoogoo goodies 😉
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Thanks for visiting the site!!
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Limahl Update
It’s been an incredible six months since we announced this, but it’s finally here! Limahl will be performing this Saturday at the ‘Jack Up The 80s’ Festival on the Isle of Wight, UK. Try as we might, none of us here at KajaFax HQ were able to make the 300 mile trip to see the show but it’s never too late! Who knows what may happen between now and the weekend? 🙂
The event is hosted by DJ Pat Sharp, and also features 80’s mixes and mash up’s courtesy of Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers throughout the day.
The full Saturday line-up is:
Tenpole Tudor
Hazell Dean
Jive Bunny
Tight Fit
Dr & The Medics
Limahl
Imagination
If that great line-up has tempted you, or if you only want to see Limahl live on stage, tickets are still available for the event. Should you have that all important last minute gap in your diary, tickets can be booked HERE. Limahl has confirmed that he is expected to take to the stage at around 5pm.
Enjoy the show!
If that was not enough, we also bring news straight from the man himself of a couple of television appearances.
Limahl will be in Norway next week recording a performance for the national broadcaster TV2 and their hit show Allsang på Grensen (Singing on the Border). The program is recorded at Fredriksten Festning, a scenic 17th century fortress located in Halden – near the Swedish Border. It will be broadcast on August 14th at 8pm local time on Norway’s TV2 and Swedish station TV4 Sjuan, and is repeated on the Saturday at 7pm.
and that’s not all….
Limahl will also be in Germany in September as a guest of MDR television. Scheduled for broadcast on the evening of September 6th, he will be making an appearance on ‘Der Tag der Sachsen‘.
For the German speakers amongst you, HERE is some more information about the event.
KajaFax will bring you more news as and when we have it.
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Happy Birthday Stuart!
Today is a special day for Kaja keyboard wizard, Stuart Croxford Neale.
A lovely bloke a musical maestro, KajaFax and its followers wish Stuart a very happy birthday!
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Kajagoogoo Ticket Stub Collection – Update and Question
Returning to a long running KajaFax theme, here we present another in our ticket stub collection. Originally issued by the Hammersmith Odeon for the show of May 30th 1983, this ticket is worthy of a mention for another reason altogether.
KajaFans, we need your help!
Look at the rear of the ticket. Originally stamped by the vendor ‘Monday 30th May – Kajagoogoo plus support’, this particular ticket was later altered to show the revised date of June 26th. Why was this?
Team KajaFax assumed (probably like everybody sat at home reading this article) that the two nights at the Hammersmith Odeon took place as scheduled – namely May 30th and 31st 1983. After all, both nights were recorded and are both available to purchase. Never before has there been any suggestion that dates were changed, and indeed if they were, what the reason was.
So, we look to you, the ones that know best. Does anybody know the significance of the changed date? We really hope that this post generates some debate – please feel free to comment and hopefully help us solve the mystery!
Steve C and I send a huge thanks in anticipation of any information that you, the fans, are able to offer!
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Nick Beggs Interview: Bass Guitar Magazine
KajaFax has, over the years, enjoyed bringing you the very best in quality magazine scans.
Today’s article continues this trend, as we showcase one such scan from our archives that many of you may not have seen before.
Interviewed for Bass Guitar Magazine back in 2009, may we present Nick Beggs. Enjoy the scans!
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http://www.bassguitarmagazine.com/
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Kajagoogoo Peru Promotional Single
Today’s chunk of vintage vinyl comes to you in the form of a promotional vinyl single, sourced and imported into the United Kingdom all the way from ‘darkest’ Peru.
Issued direct to the radio station music library via IEMPSA, this promotional disc contains Kajagoogoo’s second and third hit songs Ooh to be Ah and Hang on Now. The acronym IEMPSA stands for Industrias Electricas Y Musicales Peruanas S.A. , which in simpler terms is actually Odeon and EMI Records’ Peruvian subsidiary company.
Items issued via this label onto the open market are highly sought after by collectors, with similar records by acts such as Duran Duran changing hands for incredibly high prices if in the right sort of condition.
Dated ‘Marzo’ (March) 1984, the disc was once the property of Radio Pasco, a station based in the central Peruvian Pasco Region. It now resides here in the UK as a part of the KajaFax archive 🙂
To round off today, here is a 2012 re-mix of Ooh to be Ah, courtesy of DJpHatSam.
See you next time!
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Nick Beggs: Kumara
We come to you tonight with something new. Hot off the press and published online only minutes ago by Nick, here is a great solo stick recital that you don’t want to miss. Nick has in the past uploaded some great ‘stick’ video clips. The footage that we bring you now is up there with the very best of them.
Enjoy this sublime performance: ‘Kumara’.
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