Twirls Aloud

From The Sun 17th April '09...Can't wait for April 26th at the O2!

POLE-dancing, PVC and dominatrix action. Sounds like a Saturday night behind closed doors for an MP.

But the eye-popping antics are what CHERYL COLE, SARAH HARDING, NADINE COYLE, KIMBERLEY WALSH and NICOLA ROBERTS have in store for fans on their forthcoming UK tour.

It’s with great pleasure I bring you the news that the foxy five have been taking secret lessons in pole dancing for their Out Of Control tour, which kicks off next Friday at Manchester’s MEN Arena.
And gentlemen, if you haven’t bought a ticket for one of the 32 dates, best get a pair to treat you and the missus to a night out.

A source on the GIRLS ALOUD tour has filled me in on what’s in store for lucky audiences over the next few months.

I’m told: “The girls have been taking tips from some of the best pole dancers in the business to put together a really naughty dance routine for their song Fix Me Up.

“Each of the girls has their own podium-mounted pole to show off their skills and costumes. It’s jaw-dropping stuff.”

As if that isn’t enough to get pulses racing, the group have another surprise in store.
They have put together their own cover of BRITNEY SPEARS’ hit Womanizer. Cheryl and co will be decked out in skintight PVC dominatrix gear dishing out a bit of punishment to their male dancers.

I wonder if they had a spare gimp mask left over for her hubbyASHLEY COLE?
The show’s setlist is packed with the record-breaking 20 consecutive top ten tracks and imminent single Untouchable.

The source added: “The girls will open and close the show with The Promise.
“They also have Biology, Love Machine, Call the Shots and The Loving Kind with more half-naked songs.

“The Loving Kind will see the girls perform in individual neon boxes.”
The girls did a high-wire stunt on TV’s Dancing On Ice last month, and that seems to have tickled their choreographer.

“At one point in the show they will fly from the main stage to a specially constructed smaller stage in the middle of the arena to perform two songs.”

Putting aside the PVC and dominatrix action on what will be their fourth arena tour, Girls Aloud are the best pop act in the country right now.

They deservedly landed a Brit in February and this tour will only cement their place at the top of the pop tree.

Cheryl, Sarah, Nadine, Kimberley and even Nicola pole dancing is just an added bonus.

WOW WOW WOW WOW!!!

Ok, posted quite a bit after the event but have had no internet for a week and a half so typed it out and saved it for posting later…yes another Kylie post…

Finally the time arrived for me to see Kylie’s X2008Tour, 26th July 2008 at The O2 arena, London. It was BRILLIANT!!! Boy she did not disappoint. I’d seen bits and pieces on Youtube and in the papers but nothing was like seeing it for real.

Luckily being at the O2 we had the whole show, unlike some of the open air and/or smaller venues around Europe. From the excellent opening with Speakerphone (one of the best if not unusual songs form the album), Kylie arriving on some weird cyber-spider web thing and a great vid prequel on the screens http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js86tXTHiOI , to the close of The One (Freemasons Mix – YAY! There’s a whole other post/rant about the screw up release of this but I aint even gonna bother!) and I should be so Lucky with a ballon drop there was not a dull moment. This had all been proceeded by seing Mamma Mia, so it really was a camptastic day!

The show was made even better by Kylie having some of the dancers from the two previous Showgirl tours so we had the PHWAORtastic-multi-tattooed Marco Da Silva and Jason Bietel!

The stage alone was a show in it’s self , the floor doubling as a giant video screen. Sometimes mirroring what was on the main screens at the back, sometimes having its own swirling 3D effect patterns. We were pretty high up but had a great view (apart from not being able to see the top of the back vid screens because of the lighting rig) and I think we saw the stage better even though it was tilted forward for those lower down. I also decided I want the huge silver skull Kylie was slowly swung in on down the center of the stage during Like A Drug. It would be a great way to arrive at places!

It was great to hear some of the songs that didn’t make it onto X. Again another post/rant about the album/promotion/who had what say – she’s leaving Parlaphone/EMI so nuff said really. I’d already heard a few other leaked ones but no the ones that were gonna be in the show. Some of them are far far better that what actually made it onto the album! the best being Ruffle My Feathers.

Kylie’s voice sounded amazing and much better than previous times, even doing the great high, long note of Your Disco…Certainly gave a finger to the people who say she can't cut it live!

It seemed to take a bit of time for the crowd, around us anyway, to get going and I was getting a bit worried. Didn’t stop Wend and I singing/wailing at the tops of our voices and prob annoying a few around us. Oh well! By the time we had the interval and the second half got going it all seemed to change. Dunno why. By the end the atmosphere was amazing! We had the chants of “Kylie, Kylie!”, slow hand clapping and the foot stamping. Not sure if we did but I think we got a bit extra and Kyle seemed to be taken aback by the amount of noise we were making with her even asking “You gonna let me go now?” with near enough the whole arena shouting back “NOOOOOOO!” and her just standing there laughing.

Unfortunately it all had to end but we left feeling very happy. The months of build-up and our weeks and days of counting down had def all been worth it. Lets hope there is more from Kylie soon! Some say it will be sooner than you think…

I was wrong...

....about Hard Candy, I love it now! Still no real stand out tracks but it's def grown on me during the fair few plays it's had since I got it. As I said in the previous post it wasn't what I was expecting so took a while to really get into it.





Now the count down begins for KylieXTour! Just over two and half months now (Sat 26th July), 10 WEEKS!!, until we are sat high up with the pigeons(no joke, lol!) at The O2! Got the tickets a couple of weeks ago so now just gotta keep them safe. Not sure if It was a good or bad thing but had a peak at some of the stuff already on Youtube from her Paris dates( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPXzym8uKEg intro/Speakerphone - best I found) .... IT LOOKS AMAZING!... but I guess I've spoilt it a bit, just couldn't resist a search and a click. Still if I'm impressed with a few grainy low quality sounded vids then how good will it be when we are there?! I stopped looking at vids before I saw too much...