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The Saturdays - Sheffield City Hall
I’ve got a growing sense of unease about tonight as I approach the venue, i’ve agreed to review the gig principally so that I can take my 12 year old daughter to the gig as she’s a big fan of the group (and if I’m honest a lot of this manufactrured pop stuff at the moment), I guess she has a few years left yet until her taste develops to an acceptable level.
My reason for feeling a bit uneasy is that tonight has such a strange audience mix, groups of girls and women, teenagers, gay couples and groups and not many men approaching 40 that are here with there daughters. I feel like I stand out like a sore thumb.
Once I get settled into my seat though i’m feeling a little better about things, it’s my first visit to the venue and i’m impressed, I’ll certainly have to make a return visit to see a band or artist that is more my cup of tea, i’ve only got a couple of hours to go at least and you never know…it might be brilliant!
It isn’t of course, but I do get something of a treat to start with in the shape of Pixie Lott. An attractive girl half my age so I have to be careful what I write here, but she’s hard to take your eyes off, she has a striking stage presence and is open with the audience.
Musically she beats the headliners hands down tonight for me, sure her big number one single goes down well with the crowd of course, but it’s her stripped back acoustic tracks where she covers a couple of greats that suggest she’s got a lot more in her locker than just being a disposable pop act.
She takes on Kings Of Leon (don’t know the title sorry) and Stevie Wonder’s Isn’t She Lovely, it’s impressive stuff and with enough in the rest of her set to suggest that the recent single wasn’t a fluke, I can see her going on to surpass The Saturdays in every way.
- The Saturdays
- Sheffield City Hall (27th June 2009)
- Category: Live
- Label: Polydor Records
- Support: Pixie Lott
- Reviewed by: Olderwiser
- Published on: 29 Jun 2009
- Comments: 0
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Add to favouritesI say that because tonight for me (and despite a brilliant audience reaction to their show) The Saturdays seem to be a little bit too much style over substance and if i’m honest we’ve seen it before from The Spice Girls, Girls Aloud and The Sugababes, although so far in the releases i’ve hear they are nearer level wise to Liberty X and the other one or two album wonders that come and go in the pop world.
Style wise they have it, costime changes a plenty as you tend to get with pop outfits and good crowd interaction which does make people feel part of the night, but song wise they just don’t have the tracks to compete. The strongest moments are other peoples songs with Depeche Mode, Pink, Katy Perry and Rihanna all being used at some point during tonight.
Of their own songs the new single Work isn’t bad as it goes, the overall impression I’m left with is that they sing a bit better than I expected live, they do put on a show, but it’s a show that doesn’t have a great deal of weight behind it. Still i’m in the good books withmy daughter for once so both me and Pixie Lott are winners tonight!
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