Celine Dion announced this week that she would return to Caesars Palace next year, but she’s in danger of having her thunder stolen by British 80s boy band graduate, Matt Goss.
It’s difficult to argue who is the bigger star.
But even so, it’s Goss’s gig that’s getting attention here in the UK. The news (which was announced nearly two weeks ago) has just started to hit the papers over here, and it even got a mention on Radio 2 last night.
Play the clip below to hear Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie give their critique of his career so far and announce his arrival as the new headliner at Caesars.
That’s if you consider playing in a 165-capacity indoor boat with a novelty rocking, floating dance floor (rather than the 4,296-seater Colosseum under the same roof) to be headlining.
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If you can’t be bothered to listen to the clip, here’s the highlight:
“He’s exactly what [Vegas] used to have and lost? What, a bloke with some Doc Martins with Grolsch tops on?”
As the supportive partner of a former Brosette (is that such a thing? Isn’t it like saying “former alcoholic”?) there was little doubt that we’d be seeing this show in April, and I’ve just booked the tickets.
I actually don’t mind and I’m quite looking forward to it. The clips I’ve seen make it look, well, not bad. And it’s definitely a Vegas show (complete with sleazy backing dancers called “Dirty Virgins”) – about as far from a Bros tribute as it could be.
I’ll give anything a go these days, and besides, my tastes are much broader now than they were when I was 14 years old and detested Kylie just as much as I hated Bros. What was I thinking?
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