Boots and all | Inspiration with a twist for our boys in the navy tops

Girls and boys, you’d better brush up your YMCA dance routine as the drums are beating that the Village People will appear at the Cathay Pacific/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens in March.

The American disco band of the ’70s and ’80s, who portrayed cultural stereotypes and targeted disco’s gay audience, are set to be the act at Hong Kong Stadium, following in the footsteps of Queen tribute band, Queen Extravaganza (2014), and the Beach Boys (2013), who made brief appearances on Sevens Sunday.

Now it’s the turn of the Village People, who must have a following inside the Hong Kong Rugby Football Union.

Picture chairman Pieter Schats as the leather-clad biker character with the horseshoe moustache, or chief executive Vern Reid dressed up as a construction worker. What about Trevor Gregory as the Native American or Dai Rees as the police officer laying down the law?

Fans will recall that the band’s most popular songs included Macho Man, Go West and In The Navy, that is apart from their biggest hit YMCA which has become an anthem for the LGBT – lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender – community.

Three or four songs are all that can be accommodated in the brief interlude on the Sunday when the HKRFU lets it hair down.

Also turning up at the Hong Kong Sevens next March will, of course, be our own national sevens team.