SUMMER one-off music concerts can
be a bit hit and miss as Meat Loaf's
recent outing at Broadlands demonstrated.
But Girls Aloud, at Osborne House,
were worth every penny of the £35
ticket price as well as the difficulty
some audience members had in getting
to the Isle of Wight venue thanks
to a broken down ferry.
The girls played for around an hour
and a quarter, treating the audience
to a string of top ten hits, tracks off
the latest album Tangled Up and a
number of covers.
They also had an outfit change,
starting the show dressed in super
sexy black, white and blue Barbarella
outfits complete with male dancers in
eyebrow raising bondage-esque gear,
before changing into sparkly gold
spangly cocktail dresses.
They started in style with Sexy! No
No No performing some surprisingly
raunchy dance moves given the
pre-teen age of the majority of the
audience. The outfits and dance
moves were a little incongruous with
them regularly smiling and waving at
their kiddie fans - not that the audience
seemed to mind.
Another early crowd pleaser was
their first ever hit Number 1 smash
Sound of the Underground. This provided
a massive cheer from the
crowd, as did altered lyrics "base line
jumps in the Isle of Wight".
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After the costume change Sarah,
Nadine, Kimerley, Nicola and Cheryl
returned with their dancers dressed
in tuxedos, ballroom dancing with
them as they performed I Can't
Speak French. And on the next track,
Love Machine, they made use of an
impressive revolving section of the
stage.
Throughout the entire concert the
girls danced enthusiastically and
impressively, pulling off well executed
routines with their expert backing
dancers.
The girls are known for performing
the odd cover and they performed a
number at Osborne House with varying
success. Their version of Robyn's
Every Heartbeat didn't really work
musically. For one thing while Cheryl
was emotively singing "and it hurts
with every heartbeat" Sarah Harding
was leaping around the stage punching
the air and shouting Yeh!
However, their energetic cover of
Salt n Peppa's Push It was a definite
success, being lots of fun and showing
off the girls' ability to whip the
crowd up.
The highlight of the night was
another cover Jump while their
encore Something Kinda OOOOh
wrapped up an excellent show with
style.
Girls Aloud were worth every penny £35 for 1hr 15mins, is this reviewer being serious or is it just their sense of humour? Meat Loaf aged 60 did over 2 hours and they say his show was a miss yet a young band like Girls Aloud rip off people with just over an hour? I'm guessing this reviewer is a young bands lover and she hasnt been to many shows becuase if she has she'll know 1hr 15mins is not value!!!!!
Girls Aloud were worth every penny £35 for 1hr 15mins, is this reviewer being serious or is it just their sense of humour? Meat Loaf aged 60 did over 2 hours and they say his show was a miss yet a young band like Girls Aloud rip off people with just over an hour? I'm guessing this reviewer is a young bands lover and she hasnt been to many shows becuase if she has she'll know 1hr 15mins is not value!!!!!
Funny isn't it? Meat Loaf performs a 2+ hour show in atrocious conditions to a crowd of around 10 000 people with restrictions placed on the sound levels by the local council and he gets a slating in the press.
Girls Aloud play to a bunch of kids and spend time in their 1hr 15 min set getting changed and it's a fantastic show.
Local journalism is a fantastic thing isn't it? Not!
Funny isn't it? Meat Loaf performs a 2+ hour show in atrocious conditions to a crowd of around 10 000 people with restrictions placed on the sound levels by the local council and he gets a slating in the press.
Girls Aloud play to a bunch of kids and spend time in their 1hr 15 min set getting changed and it's a fantastic show.
Local journalism is a fantastic thing isn't it? Not!
Well Girls Aloud didn't sound like a poor karaoke, unlike Meatloaf.
75 minutes of quality entertainment or 120 of complete and utter pap.
What would you rather spend your cash on?
Well Girls Aloud didn't sound like a poor karaoke, unlike Meatloaf.
75 minutes of quality entertainment or 120 of complete and utter pap.
Posted by: misshoney, soton on 7:35pm Mon 28 Jul 08
1hr 15mins is standard for most gigs, not epic wembley stadi[bold]bold[/bold] um style concerts and the comments to this forum by previous candidates haven't got a valid opinion if you spend two hours watching meatloaf!!! Girls Aloud were awesome, no backing tracks, pure pop esctasy!!!
1hr 15mins is standard for most gigs, not epic wembley stadi um style concerts and the comments to this forum by previous candidates haven't got a valid opinion if you spend two hours watching meatloaf!!! Girls Aloud were awesome, no backing tracks, pure pop esctasy!!!
saw Meat three times this tour, but not this show so dont know what went on there but the ones i went to were certainly value for money, he still has it, not gonna slate girls aloud, theyre just not my thing, each to their own
saw Meat three times this tour, but not this show so dont know what went on there but the ones i went to were certainly value for money, he still has it, not gonna slate girls aloud, theyre just not my thing, each to their own
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