They perform more than 100 shows per year but remain based in their adopted city of New Orleans where Nooner says their most dedicated fans live. With Nooner dressed as Adam Ant, guitarist Randi Wilde dons the layered Devo plastic red hat bassist Lord Phillip Wang is a curly, blonde Twisted Sister Dickie English on keyboards plays Pee-Wee Herman and the drummer, Sir Liam Thunders, is the Karate Kid. Nooner and his band mates, who hail from Sheffield, England, are in their 16th year of touring the country with their flamboyant, popular show. But we can’t not play at least one of those, because we wouldn’t get out of the building alive if we didn’t … but when the song comes up and you hear the audience singing it back to you, you forget how many times you’ve played it and it’s exciting again.” “There’s a handful of those actually … ‘Don’t Stop Believing,’ ‘Living on a Prayer’ … I’ve played them literally 10,000 times,” he says. He’s a little bit sick of covering Def Leppard’s “Pour Some Sugar on Me.” Sir Devin Nooner - lead singer and guitarist for “the world’s greatest ’80s cover band” The Molly Ringwalds - has a secret.
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