'chicken movements'.....as learnt during dance sessions with Obama and then research into it.....slave dancing.....the history of black dancing.....

I can remember roz and I being asked to prepare a 'dance routine' at green tower.....to tempt the B52s to 'come out of retirement' and do the LOVE SHACK again....

they turned up at green tower....to watch roz and I - doing 'chicken dance'....I was in the 'chicken bikini' and roz was in a yellow bikini.....roz didn't like doing the chicken routine....a type of music and rhythm that she had 'never got into'....so we had planned the routine beforehand...I would do 'chicken in the hen-house'...rustling my feathers and pumping out my chest.....whilst pecking for food.....she would do PLASTIC CHICKEN USED TO BEAT YOUR COMPUTER.....in a pogo-way....which 'lurches to this side and that'....beating the computer.....

the B52s were to watch our 'routine'....they didn't get it....

until we explained...the routine and the costumes.....

"....the HH....it is a british intelligence department....in HIGH HOLBORN....commonly known as the HEN-HOUSE....our dance is a CHICKEN one....inspired by movements from black dance history.... but really a pisstake of the HH..."

the lead singer of the B52s 'got it' immediately....."so I am to be the ROOSTER?"....

one of the singers - was 'entirely happy about her role and costume' - shaking her tail feathers....the other was not.....'so I am the plastic chicken to beat computers with - but will they get it?' (the audience) she wondered......

MARK R was 'on hand'...to show them 'black dance history' in videos.....they could create their own dance routines from that.....

she needed a 'bit of time' to agree to the project....."give her a bit of time" her co-star singer said....she'll come round to the idea.....

and that is how the B52s came out of retirement....'got inspired by the chicken dance'....and did their own thing....in a HOLLIDAY shack, in the middle of nowhere....to entertain 'new generations'.....