19 Facts About Black Lace

Black Lace is a British pop band, best known for novelty party records, including their biggest hit, "Agadoo".

In 1979, Black Lace recorded their first single, "Mary Ann", for ATV music and a recording contract followed with EMI.

Black Lace found great success with live performances and TV shows, notably the 'Sopot International music festival' in Poland and the 'Golden Orpheus festival' in Bulgaria, and on TV in East Germany, West Germany and Spain.

Black Lace participated in the recording of the UK No 1 hit "You'll Never Walk Alone" as part of the charity ensemble, The Crowd to raise funds for the families of the victims of the Bradford City stadium fire.

In 1986, Dene Michael replaced Gibb, who took time out of live work with Black Lace to concentrate on projects including: promoting pop act 'Party Party' and participating in two tours of Germany, concentrating on a part-time photography business, setting up a food retail outlet, and a music equipment retail and installation business.

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Black Lace appeared as themselves in the filming of the 1987 film Rita, Sue and Bob Too, which featured "Gang Bang" and "Have a Screw", which had been recorded by Barton and Gibb the previous year.

Also in that year Black Lace shot a promotional video for the single "Electric Slide" in Benidorm, the first video not to be filmed in the UK, and played on British breakfast station GMTV live from Torremolinos in Spain.

Black Lace played one-off shows in 1996 at DJ conventions in Canada and Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States.

Black Lace played 20 shows in 24 hours in Manchester, London, Watford, Northampton, Sheffield, Barnsley, Wakefield, and Leeds, finishing at the Frontier Club, Batley.

In 2000, Black Lace become the first band to play at the ill-fated Millennium Dome.

In 2002, Colin Gibb took the original Black Lace show to Tenerife, playing the now internationally famous 'party shows' in hotels and restaurants on the island, occasionally visiting the UK for TV appearances.

In 2004, Gibb took the Black Lace show to mainland Spain to appear alongside Elvis tribute artiste Mike Young and other guest acts at 'The King Lives On' cabaret bar on the Costa Blanca, returning to Tenerife for contracted shows in 2005.

On 4 November 2009, the 'new' incarnation of Black Lace was filmed by the British airline easyJet, performing a re-written version of "Agadoo" for release on the video-sharing website YouTube, launching a new air service between Gatwick Airport and Agadir in Morocco.

In 2015, 'Original' Black Lace member; Colin Gibb, releases 'Agadoo ' which is an updated remix of the 'Agadoo 106 mix'.

In 2015, Gibb, celebrating 40 years since Black Lace was formed, teamed up with guitarist and vocalist Gordon King for live shows, keeping the style and tradition of the original format: loud guitars, even louder shirts, cheesy dance routines and that 'tongue in cheek' and sometimes 'risky' comedy.

Black Lace are nominated at the Tenerife Entertainment Awards for Best Group.

In 2019, Black Lace became associated with UK dressage team The Agadoo Girls, consisting of 7 members with Gibb's cousin Debbie Cox, as team captain.

Original Black Lace concluded 2019 having performed 278 shows in 221 days.

Black Lace have been voted in the top five all time 'Best Party' songs, 'Best Holiday' songs, and 'Worst Records of all time'.