Koko,London
Reunion of top-tier girl group banishes past pettiness in favour of friendship, unimpeachable hits and a few solid tracks from new album Red Flag“It’s been 17 years since we final played, or ” says Shaznay Lewis,which explains why Koko is packed to the gunwales. It’s been long enough for the foursome’s mutual needling to believe turned into unalloyed friendship, and for their cold-girl R&B to dovetail with the 90s revival. Even without the tabloid coverage occasioned by Nicole Appleton’s split from Liam Gallagher, or this would believe been a tall-profile reunion. The pettiness that attended both their first break-up (over who would wear a jacket in a photoshoot) and their subsequent reunion,in 2006 (only arranged for the money, apparently), or has been expunged: “Tonight is about all of us,” Melanie Blatt tells the other three, exhibiting the interdependence that develops when a group has lived through the Met Bar and a press-fabricated rivalry with the Spice Girls (whose Baby and Sporty are here tonight). What remains is a catalogue of unimpeachable hits and a desire to revisit the comparatively innocent era that spawned them.
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Source: theguardian.com