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When A1 split up a few years back, pop was left with a huge hole to fill. They may not have been the biggest boy band of the time, but they were certainly the best and held all the perquisite's for the world of pop as we now know it. They wrote their own songs (bar the atrocious cover of "Take On Me") and played their own instruments. In fact when they split after their serious rock influenced 3rd album "Make It Good", they in turn set the template for Busted and McFly as much as the Dum Dums did. By the sizeable crowd down the front, Ben Adams has clearly not been forgotten. For those of you not versed in the world of pop he was the cute ickle one with curtains and if tabloid rumours are to be believed a sizeable package (Big Ben - we see the headlines now). Now with a new haircut and less of the baby fat he's back as a serious artist - a better looking Jamie Cullum, a white Lemar or a male Natasha Bedingfield if you like. The songs on first listen sound like fellow Sony BMG white soul boy Jamie Scott, all funky guitar riffs, brass stabs and soaring string sections. The highlights are the nursery rhyme pop of "Destination Rendezvous", a classic A1 style ballad in the form of "I Don't Want To Stay" and "Get Off My Girl" which features Ben rapping over a tune not dissimilar to Madonna's "Hanky Panky"... |