Wet Wet Wet

The band made famous by their cheesy love songs and their sexy lead singer Marti Pellow have graced the music scene for well over 15 years now and last night the reunion tour brought them to a packed wembley arena, and the 1000s of middle aged women were certainly impressed.

Bens Brother, the UK band who had their song used for a Dentyne Ice commerical in the States were the support for the night and were duly applauded after their rather short set. This band made a brief appearance on the extremely popular programme X FACTOR so they had built up a rather large following after that and probably even more so after the tour was announced, so the audience was not entirely a Wet Wet Wet one. The band were chosen presumably to fill the void left behind by bands catering for the slightly older/middle aged persons who prefer their soft rock and who probably complain at the arctic monkeys or kaiser chiefs being rather loud.

The lead singer does a very good imitation of Rod Stewart's voice and that I feel helps them in alluring all these screaming ladies to purchase their records despite the fact that he fails to reach a high note like the legend himself. The venue was a rather large venue to hold them and you could tell the stage presence was not there as there were murmurings in the crowd despite several attempts to cajole the crowd. Eventually the crowd calmed down and a handful sang to them whilst encouraging the band to strike up more conversations with them which was just what saved their rather short and ordinary performance.

Never had the very few men at the arena last night heard such female screams since John Prescott entered that Lingerie party and it was all because Marti Pellow and his cronies slowly appeared on stage amidst all the nu rave lights and equipment to the song of the night "I Feel It In My Fingers" to which the audience erupted and joined in a mini sing along, whilst Mr Pellow swaggered across the stage flirting and teasing the thosands of middle aged women by cavorting round the mic stand etc with a skimpy top and tight trousers on.

The band's performance did more for them than their cheesy pop songs as they impressed with their relentless stories and jokes, which strangely enough from a band, were funny. The light display also did a lot to hide their less than energetic set till they decided to do several acoustic sets and that was the moment you realised, unfortunately they had average singing voices as it was very difficult to relate to any of the acoustic tracks they went through. Giving them credit where due, they were rather good with the audience and seemed like they had a thoroughly enjoyable time.