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Pre-pubescent singers the S Club Juniors, the latest creation of pop mastermind Simon Fuller, had to leave the audience because they were mobbed by girls their own age. Soon it seems there will be no adults at all involved in this type of pop music, which is surely a blessing for the rest of us.

Westlife are veterans of the scene, having been successful for a whopping three years, and a show full of fireworks and aerial stunts showed they have some money to spend. This is a mammoth tour, their five nights in London just a blip compared to 11 in Belfast and 12 in Dublin.

For anyone curious as to who exactly sends almost every Westlife single to Number One, I can confirm it is entirely teenage girls and their mothers. Tumbleweed tumbled through the gents toilets all night.

The teenage boys were presumably at rowdy metal concerts, engaging in similar levels of screaming and flailing.

The five lads emerged from within their own personal globes at the beginning and floated down on wires into an appropriate World of Our Own. Performing in the round, in the centre of the arena, they each serenaded the baying crowd from a metal structure like the bow of James Cameron's Titanic.

Songs such as Queen of My Heart and My Love have the same hearty chorus and hefty key change at the end, an obvious move which sends the teenies into raptures every time. Bop Bop Baby strays from the formula by being slightly faster, and charted this week at five, a shocking statistic which led some to sound the death knell for the group. If this is the end, no one told the ecstatic crowd, who looked very far from moving on to the next crush.

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