AUSSIE BROSETTES SECURE FANS A BROS ENCORE
THEY sang I Owe You
Nothing in the 1980s but British pop pin-ups Bros owe at least some of the credit for their coming Australian show to Gold Coast screenwriter and producer Rachael S. Morgan and her fellow fan girlfriends.
Ms Morgan and a core group of Aussie Bros’ fans campaigned for more than six months to get the reunited band to visit Australia.
“We basically decided we weren’t going to give up until we got an Australian tour,” Ms Morgan said.
Bros – twin brothers Matt and Luke Goss (and originally, former member Craig Logan) – were huge in the ’80s and early ’90s thanks to hits such as When Will I Be Famous, Drop the Boy, Madly in Love, Chocolate Box and Try.
The group attracted an army of fans, known as Brosettes, who followed it wherever it went. When Bros announced a UK reunion tour in 2016, Ms Morgan and fellow Brosettes Shannon Gallaway, who set up an “Aussie Brosettes’’ Facebook page, and Lea Andrews began campaigning to bring the group here.
The Aussie Brosettes hit Twitter, Facebook and Instagram en-masse – coining the hashtag #Brostralia, which has since been adopted by the band.
“For months, we tweeted and posted on Facebook and Instagram and hounded high-profile Aussie radio and TV personalities to get them on board,” Ms Morgan said.
“We were probably a total pain in the bum but it worked. The boys are coming to Australia and we couldn’t be more ecstatic.”
Bros will play a one-off Australian show at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney on November 4 – 29 years to the day after they played the Harbour City in 1988.