Big Fun - Handfull Of Promises

[rox771000]

mi placer culpable

[gailmckennag]

one of their best. a saw classic like 'got to be certain , together forever',nothing can divide us and many many more.' a whole lot of nothing' is a clever line.

who were the three cute ladies?

[GINGERALER]

It doesn't get anymore vanilla than this.

[FURY1958]

Hmmm, the youthness, what a stupid and wonderful time to live when you're a teenager as I was back then when this song hit the dancefloors.

[Nocgirl]

Are all 3 of these guys gay? I thought one of them was married and had kids, I could be wrong. Apart from Phil I cannot find any current info on the other 2.

[rati314]

Baromira tetszett 20 éve, most is nagyon jó hallgatni.

[shmuli9]

This is my fave song by Big Fun, though it seems that at least two of them didn't really sing. (Either that, or Mae Moore's mike was turned up louder.) Wasn't this group earlier called "7th Avenue"?

[astrogirl67]

remember this music when i used to go to gay clubs,,love the SAW music the dance floors where packed

[moviekrazy4ever]

OMFG!!!!!..I had the "Pocketful Of Dreams" cassette and VHS with all their videos back in 1989-1990...I was...13/14, muahahahaha....I also had posters of them and Jason Donovan, hahahahaha.....Cheesy!....

[rrzander403]

I don't ever remember seeing these guys here in the U.S., so I am a little late to the party, but I absolutely love them! "Pocketful of Dreams" was just re-released on Cherry Pop label with extra tracks-just great! Not much info on what the guys are doing now, except for Phil. God the 90's were great!

[enquvist]

This the most awful SAW video ever !! But I come back and watch it every six months lol. I think the boys should have been filmed just from the neck up!!!

[FFSSAKE]

Everything that was bad about 80's and 90's pop music is right here.

[britishfirstandlast]

@FFSSAKE But it is laughably bad. Today's music is just bad and inspires depression. You can't even parody or make fun of it.

[withnail555]

Utter rubbish bastards.

[AnthonyUK]

I liked this group

[paulnwave]

only the small one is gay....

[Apprenticewidow]

Nope, all gay!

[dafyddg1984]

I can remember dancing to this as a 5/6 year old, whenever these three came on TOTP - whether it was this, can't shake the feeling (though I may have been 4 when that came out) and Blame it on the boogie!!

[aaronmia1]

i loved these sooooooooooo much!!!!!!

[MrWhatTheHellIsThat]

LOVE this!!!

[malcyroo]

Were they all gay?? Or was it just the news of the world making it up,re ogies etc,...... lol....awful singers but I love SAW stuff !!!!

[marinhogonseca]

que bons tempos ( brazil)

[cantforgetyou]

The melody of this song is SUPER!! The vocals not. I'm afraid.

[800rachel]

ke recuerdos!!

[jaclynbarbara]

hehehe!! oh well, i suppose they're not hurting anyone!

[BongoOldChap]

handfull of penises more like it from these cunts

[BongoOldChap]

sorry should have been

mouthfull of penises

[pinnell40]

listen to the words when your in love theres nothing left

[Pertix64]

OMG! I really loved this song and I have to admit it...we tried to learn the choreography, play the record and dance...this was 20 years ago!!! Still catchy after all these years. Great tune!

[pinnell40]

oneday the eights will come back

[moosewy76]

i loved big fun as e teenage boy - i know they were a focus of some intimate alone time too.... (i was 14!!!) hehe

[sussexpenguin]

this, looking back, would probably have been better if they gave it to Sinitta

[Almagestos]

Juaaaaaaaja! estas son las típicas canciones que hay que escuchar pero nunca ver el video clip...

Ta buenaaaaaaaaa! es el paso de los 80´s a los 90´s... sobre todo con ese: Ouuu! Yeeee! Ouuu! Yeeee! Ouuu Yeeee! jajaja

[lkennedy31]

God! I´ve always loved the song but the video...man! it´s so gay. It´s the first time ever I see it and what the heck goes by in front of the guys all the time?? Trains or something?? It´s so annoying!

[HennoGarvey]

Such a dodgy attempt to make a combinaion of Bros and Jason Donavan in one band!

It worked too, as a short term money spinner. These guys turned up on every kids saturday morning TV programme - and kids liked them for a few months.

That's what Britains music needs - for someone to revive Motormouth, Live % Kicking, SMTV or Gaz Top and Gilbert's show with Timmy Mallet and the Chuckly Bros - these programmes have been replaced with cookery programmes. That drives kids to alchohol, little cunts.

[Mellywelly29]

I want to do a cover version of this song......

[CANBERRACOURTBOY]

WHY!!!!???

[Mellywelly29]

Because it would be...AMAZING ;)

[CANBERRACOURTBOY]

well i am quite sure it wouldnt sound quite as gay as this be sure catchy though

[suomichile]

Que verguenza me da pero... I love this song!

[ewelthorpe]

I assume the choreographer changed careers shortly thereafter.

[merlin10249]

i loved the song when i was a kid and i still think it´s a fantastic song! one of my SAW-favourites!

[Daveeboi68]

I dated the one in red many years ago, great memories

[mansman65]

I think we've all dated them at some point :)

[pinnell40]

o got it was the eightys we enjoyed but histoery say es we must forget

[chrisandgavin]

A friend of mine went out briefly with the one in the hat!  Not the best single ever but good fun nonetheless.

[josebuleo]

Wow, I loved this song back in the early nineties and discovering it tonight on youtube has cheered me up! It was one of the first vinyl records I bought.

[martianboy]

Lol! God I remember Big Fun and how crap they were and still are!! They must be the worst band ever!!

[CANBERRACOURTBOY]

aww come on for gods sake all you lot that say you hated this track probably all went out and bought it!

[ladymillerna]

Pfffft... I think these guys are so bad it's good. =D

[ingridaries]

me encantaban esta cancion de los 90

y eran pegajosas las canciones

q recuerdos

[MrGRBalls]

Good god. this is dreadful, thanks for posting though - i have vague memories of them, and sweet jesus they were woeful. How can they be compared with Bananarama?, who wrote their own tunes and looked great - ok they couldnt really sing either but they were better than big bloody fun!!!!

[Mellywelly29]

Okay...I'm inclined to agree with you...and 'Nana's were better dancers ;)))

[galarisette]

Mishhhh !

[seanr456]

Please do not jabber at me in a foreign tongue.

[74802006]

chinese writing is amazing

[Zhousamsun]

japanese

[Paulosoy]

I like the music produced by Stock, Aitken and Waterman, but I don´t like this guys using the Bananarama formula. The leading voice is awfull.

[Mellywelly29]

Right...in Smash Hits or J17 or Look In or something like that...they used to say that Big Fun stuffed rolled up socks down their jeans....

[74802006]

when this track first came out, I really liked it, listening to it now its so tacky

[ladymillerna]

Si son gays... pues ¿a quién diablos le importa? Yo estoy acá por su música divertida y que trae recuerdos, no para meterme en su vida amorosa y sexual. Crezcan, plis.

Big Fun = Tan Malos Que Son Buenos. =D

[dream7souls]

Se dieron cuenta de que Can't shake the feeling fue top hit? Hay muchos talented gays en musica y en otras artes. Ver lo bueno. Ademas, cuantos no gays no cantan ni la mitad de bien y no son lo leales amigos y divertidos que los gays son.

Sus hits son buenos, estan bien vestidos y bien peinados, NO TATUAJES, al menos visibles y bailan muy bien.

Es musica que recuerdo con una sonrisa.

Que mal han hecho?

Respeto opiniones en cuanto a las canciones pero lo de gays no me parece relevante.

[craigferris1]

In this video they are probably leaving some gay dance club with their 3 fag hags. lol.

[fancypantsuk]

lol

[craigferris1]

They should have calle the group "Big Queens". lol.

[gmfmusic85]

I actually enjoyed this as a Kid (early-mid 90's), and watching it brings back memories of school disco's and things. Not sure I like it strictly musically speaking though, but hey, Big Fun = CHEESEY!

[Darthraider001]

dont like it ... one of their badder songs ... but nice dancesteps ...

[youmustbeanangel]

Y lo bien que me lo pasaba con este grupo cantando y bailando. Que tiempos.. pero buenos de esa epoca tb son los milli vanilli jason donovan, nkotb, kylie en sus inicios... los ves ahora despues de tanto tiempo y piensas.. como podían gustarme???

[yayo692]

jaja en su tiempo fueron buenos y les paso lo que a todos los grupos de su tipo murieron, es un recuerdo freak pero q mas da me gustaba esta cancion, jaja, aunque mirandolos ahpora eran bastante amanerados por decirlo de una mejor manera, jajajajaja

[CHEApepper]

cuando era pequeña me encantaban, ahora los veo y me dan asco,pero en que estaban pensando?

[youarethequarry]

Otro recuerdo de Sábado Taquilla. No sabía que eran gays, pero ahora que los veo: No Doubt.

[ladymillerna]

Número Uno, Número Uno, Número Uno... =D

[Darkdread12]

tú debes ser Chilena, jeje bien ahi,

[johnnygorgeous]

This was my favourite song by them.

The group were outed as gay by the Sun newspaper.

[cantforgetyou]

Good song. No good voices.

[marianito32]

hey, let's buy them a box of testosterone... to see if we can make their voices more masculine.

[Alexanderpomar]

very nice

[johnbeck9]

I heard a story that all three of these young talents slept with Andy Bell and Jimmy Sommerville. After the marthathon sex session they all released a remix of this classic called "A Handfull of Suppositories".

[luchosotosoto]

estos tipos vinieron al programa EXITO en chile, que conducia Jose Alfredo Fuentes y les fue re bien... ahora creo que estan todo integrando la sociedad de alcoholicos anonimos en londres

[NikoChanth]

Holy crap this is about as gay as Paul Lekakis's "Boom Boom" performance on some German dance show. Only difference is these guys can't sing.

[phildesign]

Hooded tops! White jeans!! Timberlands!!!

God, that was look for all gay blokes in the late 80s/early 90s. I should know... I was there ;o)

[FURY1958]

Me too.

[agajard]

que buen recuerdo, me acuerdo que estaba pegado con esta cancion tenia como 11 o 12 años, sin duda estaba en mi inconsiente, una duda la morena del clip es la que trabajo en la pelicula LOCA ACADEMIA DE PILOTOS con charlie sheen??

[aniksiazina]

wow! que era lindo el del medio!!!

[cantforgetyou]

The melodie of the song is very good. The production was too cold. They should have produced it in the way like 'Can't shake the feeling'.

[xjandrast]

jajjaja que wuapos eran y esta cancion me encanta !!

[clauddytta]

jajaja.. recuerdo esto..tantos años atras.. vaya que estoy vieja xD

[93SS]

This had to be 1990! Every bloody SAW song had that "whoa-yeh, whoa-yeh, who-yeh, whoa-yeh" background. The were the Britney Spears' of their days ie. style over substance coz I doubt a single one of them could sing! They were cute though.

[Guillo5]

Yo recuerdo que los vi en Extra Jovenes cuando fueron a CHILE. Me gusta mucho este sonido sinple y fresco de los 80's. Ojala que este sonido vuelva.

[FabFM]

talentless, manufactured, light pop... the way boy bands should be, not "serious artistes". That's why Nsync and BSB can not hold a candle to this, too much falseness!

[Mellywelly29]

Hahahaha they were like Bananarama but MALE!!!!

I love both so that wasn't an insult

[FabFM]

yes but i think this was '80s... both groups had the same producers.

[CANBERRACOURTBOY]

im sorry but i liked stock aitken waterman but hated these guys due to their fucking big egos which is why they had such a short careers maybe thats what you get when you say you are better than the beatles

[goodboy7769]

didn't the one on the right - in the cap, the straight one :-) ,go out with anita dobson at one point?

[subycub]

God I love all PWL music ... this is one of the top Thanks for the posting

[davidsaco]

Me encantaba esta cancion cuando era un niño!! Y recuerdo que vinieron a EXITO en canal 13 de Chile. Muy buenos recuerdos!!! :D

[rdampier]

Si que tienes buena memoria, yo era muy niño y recuerdo que mis compañeras se compraban las tv grama por que salían los póster de los big fun, new kids y linear. ¡Es como para el greates hits pop de Sábado taquilla... ja-ja-ja!

[pwlmagic]

This song is my favourate song by them so well produced, the 12" is one of PWL's best ever imo.

[flipboyrn]

Another Classic video from Stock Aitken Waterman. It is one of those singles that still sounds fresh everytime i play it.

[gatherer77]

Excelente placer culpable

[Blackpoolstag]

Promises! Promises!

*Dances*

[Mellywelly29]

I loved this song when it first came out (no pun intended) and I love it now so there!!!

[LadyTaube]

Estoy muerta de la risa porque era fan incondicional de ellos cuando tenía ... 12 años . Ahora viéndolo, siento incluso vergüenza ajena XD

[Lalitoish]

Que lastima que te averguences, te averguenzas de tu misma entonces al gustarte ese grupo.

[mallorieknox]

Yo también me siento avergonzada ahora. Y más porque me pasé como media hora buscando este video, que de lo único que me acordaba es que eran tres rubios y que decían "promises, promises". Bueno al menos lo encontré y salí de la duda. Ahora me siento avergonzada.

[FilouJPBenassi]

Leur meilleure morceau, bien rythmé surtout dans la versioin longue (extended) qui est entraînante !! Waou mes années lycée !!

[Rockabillynymphet]

i liked this guys when i was like 7 yrs old

[val4val]

Vraiment charmants ces 3 mecs ! Et la chanson est "dance" ce qu'il faut...conclusion j'adore !

[kennyincanada]

Does anybody know what happened to Bill Grainger who was the guys manager?

[blade78]

i listened to it the first time in 1989 during the last months of that year... it is still a good song!

[adiboy429]

I used to LOVE this.

[stonedog35]

Still a cathcy tune after all these years....S/A/W really knew what they were doing.

[palaciego]

This was in 1990. I have a monographic videoclips of Big Fun recorded in July 1990 On Canal plus españa, when it was in test transmission.

[hello1612]

hi, im related to mark, hes my mums, uncles nephew.

marks australian, but is now living in london.

hes gay aswell, and has a boyfriend now. i havent met him before, but my mum and the other in my family have.

[roentgenstrasse]

what do you want to indicate by sayin 'as well' ?

[falcongtho3]

why would you tell everyone he is gay for that is his privet life and no body needs to know , and he was born in scotland .

[djthomastfe]

Is the same band called BIG FUN in the movie 'Heathers' ?

[BellyButton3004]

Yes, that band in Heathers is call Big Fun but they're not the same. The American band are more indie. Plus, the film came out longer before Stock, Aiken and Waterman pulled these lads together.

[mason642]

best songs they made, is it available on CD?

[BellyButton3004]

Yes, check out eBay. The album's called Pocketful of Dreams.

[reeseporter]

Jason (the blond one mostly on the right of the screen) is (or was very recently) Geri Halliwell's manager. I'm not sure which is the more qualified!

[fossy111]

OMG, I loved these lads. I got their album for my birthday when I was a kid.

[Nouveauxromo]

YAY for Mark, what a yummy man

Jason loves you Mark!

[stephen9478]

lol, yeah thats Mark i had a huge crush on him aswell, i have now been told he looks like Bradley Walsh from Coronation Street!!!!

[Rillington2000]

I ahd a cruch on them when back then. They're still good looking lads all these years on. Hope they've aged well as they'll be knocking on for 40 now.

[Edwoodwoodu]

Thats not true, he's much better looking and has kept those handsome good looks.

[Nouveauxromo]

Camp, I had such a crush on the guy in the middle.

He still does it for me....

[stephen9478]

I think it was about 1990 - 1991

[mason642]

these were good too, was this 1990?

[Rillington2000]

Yes - early 1990.