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New Moon is nothing if not an international advertisement for the hungry virtues of virginity and young people can’t get enough of it
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Theatre
A smart, prickly and rewarding view of sexual and emotional confusion
Cock
Restaurants
Kitchen W8 is a bargain for this area, if such sophistication is what you crave
Kitchen W8
Too long and drawn out but very entertaining with excellent special effects
This is a peculiar play and does not work for me. Some of it is very funny but there are real flaws
Alex has a strong powerful voice and was faultless, she is far better now than she was on the X-Factor
London,
David Smyth's rating
Reader rating
One great thing about being unfashionable is you’ll never go out of style. Soft rockers The Feeling have become great successes thanks to their willingness to “embrace the cheese”, selling a million copies of their debut album and scoring a number one with the follow-up, Join With Us.
Their efforts here extended to flashy frontman Dan Gillespie Sells singing into a rainbow diamanté microphone, vibrant covers of both Together In Electric Dreams and Video Killed The Radio Star, and use of a silver piano that seemed to have a built-in glitterball. A finale involving marching through the crowd banging drums may have been swiped from hipster favourites Arcade Fire, but otherwise it was thoroughly enjoyable fromage throughout.
Sells was watchably hyperactive, high-kicking the cymbals and working the crowd so effectively that he even got his grannie to her feet on the balcony during a climactic Love It When You Call. New songs such as I Thought It Was Over and Turn It Up maintained the high catchiness quota, and Join With Us even got away with lifting the “Beep beep” segment from the Beatles’ Drive My Car.
The odd harder rock moment, as on Spare Me, didn’t quite suit them, and the sleazy riffing of Don’t Make Me Sad was overlong. But mostly this joyful band offered pleasures not worth feeling guilty about.
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