New Musical Express (December 1982)

The biggest bridge facing Bananarama was always going to come the moment they tried to make that transition from being the pretty puppets of something production ream, whether it be Jolley & Swain or the Fun Boy Three, to a trio deserving some sort of serious critical appraisal.

Cheers Then at least shows them struggling to come to terms with the dilemma. Written by the girls themselves and recorded by Barry 'Saturday Night' Blue - their fourth producer in as many singles - the song charts similar territory to the haunting Don't Call Us on the flipside of Shy Boy.

A winsome account of how a once solid friendship lapses into polite indifference, it is far from the strongest single in this weeks pile, although the group do deserve credit for edging away from the novelty girlie appeal of that like Toto Coelo and Girls Can't Help It - Bananarama have never pretended to be anything other than themselves.