WORTH A LOOK?: ****
With Madonna 4 nights into a 6-date run at The 02 celebrating her 40 years in pop, it seems high time that Bananarama – Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward – did similar to mark their 4 decades at the top.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
It’s 5 months since Lorine Zineb Nora Talhaoui, better known as Loreen, won Eurovision for the 2nd time, becoming the 1st woman to achieve the feat.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
Joker Out lead singer Bojan woke up on his band’s tour bus this year, saw London’s Palace of Westminster and decided the city should be the venue for the lyric about the quintet’s relationship with its fans.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
There’s something extraordinarily self aware about the winner of the BBC Music’s Sound of 2018 title penning a tune asking: ‘Honestly, did I live up to the hype?’
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
We’re in South America as we write and there’s 1 Spanish-speaking song we hear everywhere and it’s this 1 with its reflection on a difficult relationship and determination to put an end to it to a moody, dancefloor-friendly bop.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
The title track from Kylie’s 16th album out 22 September proves Padam Padam, a song of the week for us in May and Ms Minogue’s biggest UK hit for 13 years, was no flash in the pan.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
That! Feels Good! is our favourite of Ware’s 5 albums and this 4th single from it features former Moloko frontwoman Murphy.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****1/2
One of the saddest stories of the year was the death of former S Club 7 member Paul Cattermole by natural causes aged just 46 shortly after his band announced a 15-date UK tour reunion this autumn.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
England’s Lionesses are European champions and, as we write, play Nigeria on Monday (7 August 2023) in the final 16 knockout stage of the Women’s World Cup.
