It's Go West Midlands for duo!
Eighties pin-ups Go West celebrate 27 years together with a tour that takes in the Robin 2 in Bilston this month.
Eighties pin-ups Go West celebrate 27 years together with a tour that takes in the Robin 2 in Bilston this month.
The band are at the Robin 2 on Sunday, February 22, 2009. Tickets cost £20 in advance and £22.50 on the door. Support will come from Birmingham band A-Syde
Go West returned with the album Futurenow last year. Their tour, called Go West By Request, sees the audience choose what songs they wish them to perform.
Go West were formed in 1982. With only a publishing deal and a portastudio, but lacking a band or record company, Cox and Drummie decided, with the help of their manager John Glover, to find a producer, go into the studio and record two of their songs for themselves.
These songs were We Close Our Eyes and Call Me. Within a matter of days Glover was negotiating with Chrysalis Records and Go West signed their first record deal.
Their debut single We Close Our Eyes was released in 1985 and reached number four in the UK charts, and became a top ten hit in the USA.
The success of We Close Our Eyes was followed by three other top ten hits Call Me, Goodbye Girl and Don't Look Down.
In 1986 Go West won a BRIT Award for Best British Newcomer.
In 1987 the singles True Colours, I Want To Hear It From You and The King Is Dead were all top 30 hits.
Five years later they released their fourth album, Indian Summer, which included the single The King Of Wishful Thinking the opening song in the hugely successful film Pretty Woman. The soundtrack album from this film has sold over ten million copies worldwide.
The intervening years have seem Cox and Drummie working on a variety of other projects while occasionally getting together as Go West.
In April 2001they released The Best of Go West - Live At The NEC, a concert recorded during their last live tour together in 1993. This contained all their greatest hits performed live in front of a sell-out crowd in Birmingham.
Over the past couple of years Go West have performed a number of live shows around the UK including two arena tours; the first and second sell-out Here And Now tours.
Cox also found time to appear on Granada Television's Reborn In The USA, returning to perform to a sell-out audience with Spandau Ballet's Tony Hadley at the Shepherds Bush Empire.
This eventually led to a full-scale tour of the UK in 2004 with Tony Hadley that played to over 90,000 people.
