ICWales | April 23 - Review: Charlotte Church

by Lorna Doran, icWales


Well, this was always going to be an interesting gig: Cardiff's famous young songstress belting out hits to her adoring public on home ground.

The curvaceous Miss Church strutted her stuff in knee-high boots and sparkly shrug in front of a capacity crowd that would have been just as thrilled with our Charl if she'd sang nursery songs.

There's no doubt that Charlotte can sing - she hit some notes at Friday night's gig that were spine-tinglingly good. It's what she chooses to sing that's interesting.

We had her 'hits' to date, (though she left Crazy Chick for the encore), interspered with the funky Rhythm is Gonna Get You, Ain't Nobody and - rather less successfully - Prince's Kiss.

She gave a hauntingly good rendition of Kate Bush's Man With a Child in his Eyes - one her personal favourites, she told us.

She looked at ease, danced sexily and gave a performance that didn't disappoint her adoring fans who clapped, whooped and danced in the aisles on cue.

She mixed it up musically, chatted to the crowd, waved to family and friends (I spotted mum Maria but couldn't see Gavin), and apologised for having a short attention span.

Her Cardiff fans love her because really, she's just like them, but with this extraordinary musical gift.

What she needs now is to find THE song that will cement her immediate future in the fickle world that is pop. Robbie had his Angels - and our angel needs one, too.

A patriotic 4 out of 5

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