Pop sensation The Four Frankies are on tour at the moment and, last night, they played The Olympia Ballroom in my hometown. From the moment they took to the stage, there wasn't a person in the venue who wasn't comatose with delight as the fab four grunted their back catalogue of hits. True, when their songs are played on the radio, it's usually during the 'graveyard shift', but the group is immensely popular with 'coffin dodgers' throughout the country who are too afraid to go to sleep in case they don't wake up again.
The hits stuttered slowly-but-surely, with a fair share of (tweaked) cover versions; Dangers In The Night, Monster Mash, Thriller, Mack The Knife, I've Got Glue Under My Skin, Is It Really Over?, and many more. True, the choreography appeared just a little stilted and uncoordinated, but if you had as much lead in your boots as these guys, you'd be lucky to be able to move at all. Should they come to a concert hall near you, be sure to drag yourself out of your bed and go and see them perform - they're dead good.
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Okay, so they're only Mego figures, but the first one is an original Frankenstein from the '70s, to which I've added a 'rope', as he's got a gold braid around the waist of the grey tunic (under his jacket), which doesn't quite look right. The other three are more recent, having been issued in the last few years, but they're a nice little collection. If you've got a favourite out of the four, declare your preference in our currently 'quiet as the tomb' comments section.
And if you can think of any song titles that lend themselves to the horror/monster theme, feel free to say what they are. Minor tweaks allowed to make them more apt.
