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A Girls Aloud live report.

  • April 27, 2009
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Girls Aloud's Out Of Control tour rolled into London last night. 

Best bits:

1. 'Rolling Back The Rivers'

2. Flying around. 

3. 'Sexy! No, No, No'.

There was a slight lack of con­fid­ence in the set list and Cheryl suffered a minor Derek Smalls moment during the band's big entrance but it was a bold and exciting show, and probably their best arena date we've seen. 

Click the image below to see the setlist.

(One of the songs was in a different place, as it happened, but that's the general size of it.)

The support slot from Girls Can't Catch started off with a fairly ropey opening number and got pro­gress­ively better as their five songs whizzed by — if the band can keep the cheese to a minimum and if the very very final studio version of 'Keep Your Head Up' captures the live 'exper­i­ence' they're onto something of a winner…

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