Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward reminisce about their Bristol schooldays, being teenage punks, and nights at the Wag Club
Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward of Bananarama in a shot of them taken in 1992, in which they are wearing dresses that really exaggerate the female shape, and recreating the same shot in 2022
We’d had a successful career with Siobhan and Jacquie, and while we always got on with them, there was a sense of freedom in it finally being just us. You could say it was a long time coming. Since school, we’ve always been each other’s sounding board. When we were 18, the world was our oyster: we moved from Bristol to a YWCA in London, and then stayed in Paul Cook of the Sex Pistols’ place for a while on Denmark Street. It was a bit of a hovel. There were no proper facilities – we’d have to boil an egg in a kettle, and the roof was always leaking – but it was just so fantastic to be in the West End. It’s when this all started.
People have said we are a bit intimidating. They see us moving as one being: twice the power. It’s strange to me, as I think we’re pretty normal. We were probably a bit shy when we started out and I think people assumed that was us being surly. But we just don’t have airs and graces. We are not stage school types. Even now, when we’ve got to do social media videos, rustling up fake enthusiasm doesn’t work for us. We’re really into timekeeping, though. Always the first to arrive.
We thought we were really wild, going to see Generation X and the Ramones – we weren’t old enough to get into the venues
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