Friday night (20 January 2012) was a major blast from the past for Cherry, as she did a gig in her home town of Leicester, in a bar that she used to trawl, herself, when she was young, free and rampant...actually the rampant is still very much there...
It was great to watch her just take to the stage (I say stage - it was a 6 inch high platform that Anne Boleyn had been previously beheaded on I think). I was a little concerned to start off with because it didn’t look that full in the main area of the bar, however during the time she was on she had a throng of people around the stage, listening to her banter, being bitched at (ok, insulted...) and picking on people that she recognised from 20 years ago, and they had no idea who she was of course...Of course it was a gay venue and for Cherry this was the first time she had dipped her ruby slippered toe in to the gay scene – and may I personally say I think she did a bloody good job of it too – even if I do say so myself – and I am rather biased. Well, not totally – I think it is a great achievement when the crowd shout encore, which they did. At least I think that’s what they shouted...
