*Newcastle Arena*
Together again after 12 years away, S Club are in good physical shape and put on a cheery show. But their vocals are canned and they lack for great pop songs“Are you ready to party, Newcastle?” asks S Club’s Bradley McIntosh, adding: “Oggy! Oggy! Oggy!” The almost entirely female audience, wearing pink cowboy hats, fancy dress and giant foam hands to help them reach for the stars, responds: “Oi! Oi! Oi!”
It’s been 12 years since the multimillion-selling pop group put together by former Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller went on tour, and in the meantime their solo outings have demonstrated that some people really are better together. Hannah Spearritt’s movie career highlight was Agent Cody Banks 2, while a Tina Barrett solo single charted at No 195. Jo O’Meara was implicated in the Shilpa Shetty Celebrity Big Brother bullying scandal and Rachel Stevens made an album about vegetables. Most bizarrely, Paul Cattermole quit to play nu-metal, and now carries the mildly bemused expression of someone who expected to be singing about Satan, not ascending on a platform to gyrate to S Club Party.
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 14 hours ago.
Together again after 12 years away, S Club are in good physical shape and put on a cheery show. But their vocals are canned and they lack for great pop songs“Are you ready to party, Newcastle?” asks S Club’s Bradley McIntosh, adding: “Oggy! Oggy! Oggy!” The almost entirely female audience, wearing pink cowboy hats, fancy dress and giant foam hands to help them reach for the stars, responds: “Oi! Oi! Oi!”
It’s been 12 years since the multimillion-selling pop group put together by former Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller went on tour, and in the meantime their solo outings have demonstrated that some people really are better together. Hannah Spearritt’s movie career highlight was Agent Cody Banks 2, while a Tina Barrett solo single charted at No 195. Jo O’Meara was implicated in the Shilpa Shetty Celebrity Big Brother bullying scandal and Rachel Stevens made an album about vegetables. Most bizarrely, Paul Cattermole quit to play nu-metal, and now carries the mildly bemused expression of someone who expected to be singing about Satan, not ascending on a platform to gyrate to S Club Party.
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 14 hours ago.