We all have something from 1984 we’d like to forget, evenRicky Gervais.

In his case, it’s videos from his days as a New Wave pop star in the band Seona Dancing. The duo was very popular in the Philippines.

Gervais, notorious now as the acid-tongued comedian, is in full ’80s glam mode: skinny tie, skinny jeans, skinny black eyeliner and full quaff, as a drum machine and synthesizer hammer out the background beat.

The band split in 1984 after four songs, including “Bitter Heart” and the Filipino favourite “More to Lose.”

Apropos of nothing, Gervais’s father was French-Canadian, a soldier stationed in the U.K. during World War II.

Star staff