Why did siobhan leave bananarama

Bananarama open up about sexism and why they split in new book: 'The tension was palpable' The memoir by the celebrated girl group offers a heartwarming throwback to the heady s. Vishwas kulkarni.

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Former Clinton aide Huma Abedin discusses new memoir. The singer reunited with former bandmates Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward in - 29 years after first leaving the group - but she has claimed she wasn't told the whole story about plans for their comeback. She told The Sun newspaper's Bizarre column: "I didn't want to do it just for a British tour and I went back on the understanding that we were going to take it around the world and maybe do a new single.

Although the group released a new album 'In Stereo' back in April, Siobhan - who added that she "doubts" she'll ever return again - admitted she wasn't involved in the record. Fahey says their only ambition was to get on stage and perform; everything else just sort of happened. And it happened so quickly that even though they were Top of the Pops regulars, they were broke, and still had to sign on at the jobcentre. They moved in to a council flat in Camden and cobbled together furniture that they found on the street.

Where are we going? Yet, almost simultaneously, they had started to live the high life. They were suddenly being flown around the world and put up in fancy hotels, which certainly helped them when it came to kitting out their flat. They still made their own clothes: Fahey remembers bringing pieces of fabric with her on their first trip to Los Angeles and hand-stitching an entire dress together on the plane.

They danced like amateurs on a night out, because they were. Who did that for you? We were a girl group, so it was kind of a piss-take of being in a girl group, in our own, shonky way. They talk about that time as if it were an endless school trip. People thought they were either surly or bolshy, or a combination of the two. People have told them, in recent years, that they found them terrifying. By , they were three albums in. The whole operation had become bigger, less shonky, and more glitzy.

The women wanted a similar sound for Venus, a song they had worked up a version of during their early days. Get those cowbells on there! Pete Waterman has given a number of interviews in which he claims Bananarama were a nightmare. It took its toll on Fahey, in particular, who seems more fragile than the others, more prone to remembering when people wronged them.

I was so angry and hurt. Hand out a wanking glove with every single? How fucking dare you? We were young girls at the time, being talked about like that. All three women agree that with hindsight, they were pretty good role models, actually.

They had done it their way. And for nine years, the public agreed.