My Favourite Holiday Susan Ann Sulley

The Human League was one of the hottest bands of the 1980s.

Their Don’t You Want Me single was the Christmas number one in 1981, sold more than 1.5 million copies and re-entered the top 20 again this year after a fan campaign. The band Phil Oakey, Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley had four top 10 albums and eight top 10 singles.

The Human League have just started a new UK tour and are at Newcastle City Hall on Tuesday, December 2 and Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on Wednesday. They will also see the New Year in as the stars of Stonehaven’s Hogmanay party.

Susan, 51, still lives in her home city of Sheffield with partner Martin.

Majorca has been somewhere close to my holiday heart.

“When I was very young our family holidays used to be to Babbacombe, near Torquay in Devon.

“My mum and dad used to take my brother James and I and we stayed in a little guest house close by the pebbly beach.

“It’s probably my memory playing tricks, but it always seemed to be sunny.

“But when I was 13 we went to Majorca for the first time and I’ve been hooked ever since.

“My dad had a friend with an apartment in Palma Nova and we went for three weeks.

“It was the first time I’d been on a plane and the weather was glorious. Too glorious actually as we all got sunburnt because we didn’t take care of ourselves in those days.

“But my partner and I go back every September to a place not too far from Palma Nova.

“Apart from the wonderful climate, it’s just so handy. Even with the check-in at the airport it’s only a few hours door to door.

“We’re both very much beach people, so we’ll lie there from about nine in the morning until five at night.

“And in June of each year we go to the little Greek island of Naxos. You have to get a ferry it takes about 24 hours with flights to Athens and then heading to the boat but it’s quite unspoiled with miles and miles of golden beaches.

“The people are spectacular, too.

“And I’ve been to the Maldives a couple of times. But that’s for really special occasions the last time was when Martin turned 50 because it’s incredibly expensive.

“It’s too embarrassing to say how much it was like the price of a car. It’s ludicrous.

“The little islands we go to only have two restaurants and one bar.

“There are only about 100 places people can stay.

“It’s so exclusive that you fly to Male and then a seaplane picks you up and drops you off on a raft in the middle of the ocean and a speedboat comes and gets you.”