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Live Review: Girls Aloud – The 02, Dublin
We seem to have gotten used to the idea of ‘reunions’ now. The cash-ins and fake smiles, the backstage bloodbaths, the aching dead-eyed misery etched into familiar faces as they canter once more round the circuit begging to be adored, desperately trying to invoke that sliver of genius that…
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Singles Review: Singles of 2012
Solange: Losing You Like a perfumed ghost of the 90s it rose from the ether, a rush of glowing familiarity followed by the strangeness of its sharp coolness. Its blank simplicity and dour repetition exposing the black magic of heartache, like blinking into the sunlight from the sour daydream of the…
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Live Review: Cheryl – The 02, Dublin
Cheryl is the all dominating Queen of Normal. No weird meat dresses or arch high camp nonsense for our chocolate button eyed lovely. She is from the school of pop that did road shows and silly interviews not political addresses and front row fashion. She’d rather have a nice sit…
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Album Review: Cheryl: A Million Lights
Just ‘Cheryl’, not Tweedy, thankfully not bloody Cole, just ‘Cheryl’ – a name like a pound shop Sindy doll with a face you could squash, like a finalist in a Miss Doncaster 1988 contest, malleable Cheryl with her everyday moniker. Hardly a rousing sucker punch in the gob of pop…
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Pop Life: It Smells Like Girl
(The Diary of a Pop Defender) We’ve stopped caring about girl bands and that people, is a crime. We’ve stopped playing the game of guessing/knowing who sings which bit and knowing why. We’ve stopped reading interviews in their voices and changing our favourite member every five minutes, we’ve stopped…
