Four old friends meet regularly in Graeme’s bar. Though they all have fond memories of the bar’s ‘70s heyday, in the here and now things aren’t as golden, as the bar’s tragic decor suggests. Kathy’s almost given up on her husband ever making parole; Jason and Tina have almost given up on each other – but Graeme’s not giving up on the bar, even as business slows to a stop and the building is condemned. With flashbacks to 1974, the friends sing their way through the smash hits of that year, and overcome their differences to pull together, save the bar and bury the past once and for all. Receiving three standing ovations on opening night, Hits of 74 is an unashamedly nostalgic and energetic romp: “It's the perfect antidote for the recession blues,” write Peter Hawes, “revitalising energies sapped by the constant foghorning of doom from the anus of TV economiclods. It's a joyous statement: ‘Hey bankers and wankers, we do silliness well; you do stupidity very badly.’ Just what we need.”