Girls Aloud At Osborne House (from Scene South)

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".

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 Ł35 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!

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!!!

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