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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,
John Aizlewood's rating
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Description: The chart-topping five-piece perform songs from their Out Of Control album.
Phone: 0871220 0260
Website: www.theo2.co.uk
Email: customerservices@theo2.co.uk
Trains: Tube: North Greenwich, BR: Westcombe Park Railway Station 
, Tube / Bus: 108, 129, 161, 188, 422, 472, 486 
Extra info: Telephones, Food, Pub, Air Conditioning
Pop goddesses: Girls Aloud aren't just reality-television stars
They may have been assembled for a reality-television programme but after six hit-strewn years, Girls Aloud are a delightful part of our pop DNA. Live, though, before an audience of gay men, small children and — safely kept in a box — Cheryl Cole’s temptation-prone footballer husband, Ashley, they remain a distinctly mixed and strangely chaste proposition.
At their finest, they were interchangeable pop goddesses, whether dangling from the ceiling like chav cherubs at the start, sauntering down a walkway to the stage in the centre of the crowd singing Whole Lotta History dressed as Opal Fruits or pounding out the heroically insistent Biology and Fling, the glorious places where gay disco meets S Club 7. And that Cole surreally claimed “it’s every artist’s dream to play the O2”, that Sarah Harding’s disastrous Einstein hairdo was a masterclass in how not to coiffure and that they obligingly plugged their sponsors only made them seem more human.
Yet there were more smoke and mirrors than a reflecting cigarette factory. In a set too heavily based on their current album Tangled Up (not even Girls Aloud fans attend Girls Aloud concerts to hear new songs), their voices, understandably breathless between songs after one punishing dance routine piled upon another, were miraculously turbo-charged and pristine each time the music began.
More disturbingly, the video screens rendered these five shapely women grotesquely stick-thin.
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I went and it was fantastic, only thing was the crowd was not as normally loud as usual but i think a lot of people went because of the x-factor. when girls aloud went off stage people didnt know if they were coming back on or not and when they did come on stage a lot stayed sitting down, hopefully the next couple of dates will be more fan based!
- Lindahf1, london
