Cheesy Disco

Boney M were the perfect embodiment of cheesy Eurodisco, and songs like Rasputin, Daddy Cool and Ma Baker wafted across the 1970s like the smell of stale camembert. The brainchild of German-based producer Frank Farian - who went on to create Milli Vanilli in the 1980s - Boney M were essentially a manufactured band, formed after Farian had already recorded the first single featuring session musicians and singers. Despite their undisputed naffness, the group managed to produce one classic, the reggae-tinged Rivers Of Babylon, which topped the charts in 1978, and which will undoubtedly be a high point of tonight's show in the National Concert Hall (of all places). Jamaican singer Liz Mitchell (right) is the only original M-person in the current line-up, but don't worry - the songs are guaranteed 100 per cent vintage cheese. It's going to be retro-tastic.