WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHERE: Dominion Theatre
WHEN: 18/7, press night 21/7 runs to 7/1/17
We first saw this Whitney Houston jukebox musical starring X Factor winner Alexandra Burke in 2014 at the Adelphi Theatre.
We awarded 11 monstas for the best pop, theatre, TV and film of 2015 – and here we look at the cream of 2016 so far and what’s to come.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHERE: The O2
WHEN: 27/3 (matinee), UK tour runs to 23/4, international tour finishes 27/8
SETLIST: Grown; Hair; Change Your Life; A.D.I.D.A.S; Wings; Lightning; DNA; Secret Love Song (Part 2); OMG; Crazy In Love medley; Salute; Little Me; Move; How Ya Doin; I Won’t; Love Me Like You; Weird People; The End; Black Magic
Welcome to the UK’s longest-running arena tour of 2016, a phenomenal 37 dates.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHEN: 24/2
SETLIST: A Headful of Dreams; Yellow; Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall; Clocks; Charlie Brown; Hymn For The Weekend; Fix You; Viva La Vida; Adventure Of A Lifetime; A Skyfull Of Stars; ‘Til Kingdom Come.
From a TV audience of 600 million at the Super Bowl (pic above) this month to the 2,000-strong Indigo2 here just weeks later (pic below). ‘This is the gig that you’ll be telling your mates about for weeks afterwards,’ promises our compere for this Brits aftershow party Radio X’s Chris Moyles.
WHEN: 26/2 7.30pm BBC4
WHERE: O2 Forum Kentish Town
It feels like a rare privilege to be choosing both the UK entrant for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest on Friday – and their song.
Our favourite four little Christina Aguileras sang Ain’t No Other Man (performance clip below) and survived Saturday’s shock elimination by the skin of their teeth. This week the public chose I’ll Be There by the Jackson 5 for them to sing in Saturday’s Juke Box show.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: 02 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
WHEN: 9/11, tour runs to 10/11
SETLIST: Glow; Pieces; Mirror Man; Empire; 1996; Hard Work; Giants; Missed; Here For You; Give Your Heart Away; Yours; The First Time; Rockets (Jackson 5 mash-up including I Want You Back & ABC); Billie Holiday; Glitterball; Five Tattoos; Believe; Ghost.
Ella Henderson (pictured above) is just 19. She was 18 when her debut album Chapter One topped the UK charts and just 16 when she finished 6th in The X Factor.
Stairs, flares, nails, an outlandish hat and a shaved head reveal – Seann Miley Moore continues to give us more – in spades. Life On Mars was an incredible song choice for a This Is Me themed week but we’re looking for him to switch it up with something more modern and dance floor 7/11.
OUT: 6/11
The poptastic 7th Heaven remix of this second single from Get Weird removes the Motown and propels it further on to the dancefloor (clip above). We predicted it would be a second number 1 from this album but it hasn’t quite turned out that way, peaking at a lowly 21 so far. Part of the problem may well have been the enduring popularity of its predecessor which is still big on radio and was undoubtedly one of the songs of the summer if not the year.
