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- Title
- When the Cat's Away
- Content partner
- NZ On Screen
- Collection
- NZ On Screen
- Description
This concert film captures When the Cat's Away during their first tour. Director Alan Thurston captures the high energy performance and pure joie de vivre of the five women vocalists, showing why the group became a Kiwi favourite. A set focusing on New Zealand songs, international hits of the period and soul classics proved irresistible on the pub circuit. The group would go on to score hit records and bigger shows (playing to 80,000 the following summer). But this was the moment they arrived...
- Format
- Video
- Date created
- 1987
- URL
- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/when-the-cats-away-1987
- Related subjects
- kazoo / band / tour bus / jay foulkes / steve larkins / gary verberne / ross mcdermott / chris green / michael russell / dianne swann / annie crummer / debbie harwood / kim willoughby / margaret urlich / respect / got to get you into my life / itchycoo park / it won’t be long / i love rock ‘n’ roll / tramps and thieves / gypsies / shark attack / raining men / let’s go crazy / spellbound / bold as brass / gutter black / be mine tonight / guilty / lady marmalade / boogie nights / wayne bell
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