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This is possibly the smallest concert I have been to - certainly since me and about 50 other people went to see the magnificent Symposium at JB's in Dudley back in 1997... Bar Academy is tiny and there have to be about 45 people there including the bar staff. Most of them are about 10 years younger than my friend Ruth and I so we instantly feel old and out of place :(

Luckily that meant we were able to get up close and personal with the band and were so close to the front that we could see lead singer Emma (who is oh so pretty ~ Ruth was visibly drooling) hem coming undone on her basque! A bit of magi-hem will fix that love ;)

Even though the show was only half an hour long (!) the set was really amazing - The Modern are the shameful love child of when the Scissor Sisters had a pity shag with the Human League and I love it! The singles Jane Falls Down and Industry were brillo, but there were some other choice cuts too, especially 7 seas (?) which deserves to be number one for 4 weeks...

So electroclashpop rules and Girls Aloud fans who have outgrown Girls Aloud (can you ever outgrow Girls Aloud??) should check them out right now!

Setlist:

Jane Falls Down
Discotheque Francais
Sometimes
7 Seas
Fool In Love
Industry
Tokyo Girls

THE place to get a weird and wonderful set of eclectic covers is the marvelous Copy, Right - and there's no way I can top that site...:) But i can post a few of my favourite recent cover versions from the frankly quite lovely Jo Wileys live lounge on BBC Radio One... Enjoy peeps!

Arctic Monkeys - Love Machine (girls aloud cover)
~ there is something insanely brilliant about this cover and just goes to show what an amazing pop tune it is. And while we're on the subject, i totally think that we have PopBoy to thank for the Sugababes covering I Bet That You Look Good...

William Young - Don't Cha (Pussyflap trolls cover)
~ I really wanted to not like the PCD song but it slowly insinuated itself into my brain. Damn it! But Williams version is ever so jazz tinged and lovely. I'm on cloud 8 every time i listen to it (cloud 9 was full)

Kaiser Chiefs - What Time Is Love (klf cover)
~ the jury is out on whether this is a pile of old wet knickers or postmodern comment on the electro trash brilliance of the new millenium. What do you think??

Franz Ferdinand - What You Waiting For (gwen stefani cover)
~ Aaah Gwenners. Definitely picked the weakest songs on her album - bar this one - as singles. Its what i call the Hilary Duff syndrome. Still this was phantasmagorical track and this FF version rocks 1000 times harder than it has any right to :)

If Maroon 5 were to have a sordid little affair with REO Speed wagon, the result would be The Feeling. Un ashamedly inspired by the cheesy rock of the 70s and 80s, The Feeling are one of my fave new finds of the year. Their enormodome anthems - such as the marvelous Fill My Little World - are so freaking hook laden, they ought to be used to catch monsters :)

Their latest single Sewn (which you can purchase here) has been all over radio 2 and the music channels so hopefully they will be huge this year. I am off to see them at Birmingham Academy on March 12th, so I will do a full report of their show then!