Saturday, September 15, 2007

Another trip to Greenwich? This is becoming a habit!
Tonight Owen and I went to see the Sugababes in the showcase gig I won tickets for earlier in the week.

As usual the doors opening at 7:30pm and show starting at 8:30 turned out to be utter urban myths so hours seemed to be spent gawping about ourselves at the IndigO2 - to give it it's proper name! It looks like a lot of money has been spent on it, the space itself is quite large with a big semicircle area one step down in front of the stage with a rail surrounding this and again a largish area stretching back to a very big back wall bar.

The stage is quite high so we had a good view despite the usual lofty feckers who insisted on standing in front of us! The lighting display is fairly nifty too. But apart from that Mrs. Lincoln what did you think of the play?

When I heard they were 'showcasing' the new single I was expecting maybe a set of about 6 songs but was I in for a treat... we got 13! Nine huge stonking hit singles - OVERLOAD, FREAK LIKE ME, ROUND ROUND, HOLE IN THE HEAD, TOO LOST IN YOU, IN THE MIDDLE, UGLY, RED DRESS and PUSH THE BUTTON were backed up with a cover of Primal Scream's ROCKS - wooo! - plus three songs from the new album including the title track CHANGE (very good) and the new single ABOUT YOU NOW which is going to be massive for them.

I have liked the Sugababes since their first single OVERLOAD but have never really thought about seeing them live before assuming that they were probably just a studio act but they were excellent tonight and would definately be up for seeing them again.... you go girls!

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