YOU should be making your mind up to attend the show by Bucks Fizz at Blackpool’s Viva Cabaret on April 3 next year.

The 80s stars are kicking off their UK- and world-wide tour in the resort with old members Cheryl, Mike and Jay fronting the band.

The tour takes in 70 dates and ,having performed together since 2009 when ‘girl next door’ Cheryl Baker and ‘cheeky pin-up boy’ Mike Nolan reunited with ‘The raunchy one’ Jay Aston, the trio are being joined for their Paradise Regained tour by a fourth vocalist, Bobby McVay.

Cheryl said: “Having performed several gigs with our friend Stephen Fox, Mike, Jay and I realised that people expect to see four on stage when they see Fizz, so we are delighted to introduce Bobby McVay as our guest singer for the tour.”

She explained that Bobby and Fizz go back a long way as he was one third of 1983’s UK entry to Eurovision Sweet Dreams. He was invited to join the band a few years ago, but was unable to commit to joining them at that time.

Jay said: “As a four piece, the songs will be heard as they were intended to be heard – with four voices rather than three, and the dance routines will have the full effect again.

“We are really looking forward to being on the road again. Performing in a theatre gives us the chance to produce a show we can be proud of, and we truly hope our audiences enjoy hearing the hits once more, together with a few of our lesser-known album tracks.

With an album of new studio material and single releases in the pipeline, the future is looking extremely bright for Cheryl, Mike and Jay – and Cheryl added: “New representation, new tour, new singer, new merchandise, maybe a new album. A new beginning – Whoop whoop!”

Like a good champagne, their performances have matured, and they still manage to hold all the fun, vitality and passion for performance of the record-breaking tours of the 1980s.

Recent appearances at the nostalgia festivals Here and Now, Rewind and the forthcoming Let’s Rock have reminded the Great British public of the power of the Fizz, as every person in the crowd finds themselves singing along and dancing to hits they thought they had forgotten.

Originally put together as the perfect winning act, Bucks Fizz went far beyond their original Eurovision remit and as one of the biggest-selling bands of the 80s and became a global phenomenon, Making Your Mind Up becoming a number one hit across the world selling more than four million copies.

Bucks Fizz is an English pop group which achieved success in the 1980s, most notably for winning the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Making Your Mind Up”. The group was formed in January 1981 specifically for the contest. and comprised four vocalists: Bobby G, Cheryl Baker, Mike Nolan and Jay Aston. They achieved instant attention with the dance routine which accompanied the song, involving a skirt-rip.

The group went on to have a successful career around the world, while the UK remained their biggest market, where they had two other No.1 singles with Making Your Mind Up” (1981), The Land of Make Believe (1981) and My Camera Never Lies (1982) and became one of the top-selling groups of the 1980s.

They also had UK-Top-10 hits with Now Those Days Are Gone, If You Can’t Stand the Heat, When We Were Young and New Beginning (Mamba Seyra). Their worldwide record sales have exceeded 15 million.[1][2] Box office: 01253 297297.