Gee Baby I Love You brings the crowd to its feet

Gee Baby I Love You have been playing the best Motown, soul and funk live covers since the mid 1980s and you’re guaranteed a good time. Upstairs at the Hen & Chicken, the crowd ranged from energetic boomers to younger kids wanting to know what all the fuss was about.

I have no idea how the eight-piece line-up, including frontman John Orme, singer Cherie Musialik and a three-piece brass section, crammed into a small performance space, but the mass of humanity on stage matched the excitement of the crowd and the venue he was hopping from the start.

Orme drove the funky beats with classics like Agent Double O Soul, Ain’t no Stoppin’ Us Now, Tequila and Hawaii Five-0. With their repertoire funkier than ever, the night was all about dancing, with crowd pleaser I Love You Baby (in which Andy Williams was cheekily adapted by changing You to Gee) and a nod to the 21st century with Uptown Funk .

As well as being musically tight, their set design is impeccable as they throw in hilarious shapes and duck walks and even a shower of glitter during a dramatic break. Okay, so the songs may go back a few years, but Gee Baby are living proof that soul never gets old.

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