''People Don't Remember the Miners' Strike, Thatcher, or Doom and Gloom. Instead They Choose to Remember Shoulder Pads, Tiffany, Dallas and Rick Astley Back to the Future Edd Mccracken at Retrofest, a World Where Showaddywaddy Are Superstars

Sunday Herald › September 01, 2009

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FOR a T-shirt logo, Frankie says a lot of things.

According to a selection of middle-aged torsos at Retrofest this weekend, billed as Europe's largest 1980s themed festival, he is very demanding. Frankie implores the crowd of 30 and 40-somethings to do everything from "breakdance", "get steamin'" and of course, "relax".

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''People Don't Remember the Miners' Strike, Thatcher, or Doom and Gloom. Instead They Choose to Remember Shoulder Pads, Tiffany, Dallas and Rick Astley Back to the Future Edd Mccracken at Retrofest, a World Where Showaddywaddy Are Superstars

Backstage, however, relaxation is far from everyone's mind. A nostalgiahungry crowd clad in uorescent pink, sweatbands, mullet wigs, and ra-ra skirts are rapidly filling the site at Loudon Castle, near Kilmarnock. But East 17, the recently reformed boy band from the ...

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