aol winter warmer

worked on the AOL winter warmer gig last night at the Forum in Kentish town and can report:

MIka is the gayest pop act in town and yet he had a younger brother in his entourage that was somehow even gayer and looked more like a girl than a girl. He wore pink jeans and if you squinted it could have been johnny burrel him out of razorlight. He also brought his entire greek extended family and his mum looks like Hattie Jaques and his sister had fuzzy cheeks but was otherwsie extremely good looking.

Spent several hours unpacking , distributing and generally pestering people to take 'crazy ' blue wigs. After about two minutes people realise these are actually shit and throw them on the floor.

The first lot of teen poppets, and a couple of retarded looking forty-somethings in oxfam padded coats and jogging trousers, queued in the cold for three hours then ran in to grab their places at the front barrier. While they stared intently at every roadie coming on stage to tape down a cable, they all managed to completely miss McFly and Amy Winehouse standing behind hem having a chat.

Amy Winehouse also introduced her act with "It's ok, I'm not pissed!". Which seemed true. She also didnt actually move her feet for the entire act, somehow doing here snakey hips dance thing with no air at anytime between her feet and the floor.

Peaches Gandalf compered (ferne Cotton the first chopice being too busy and the second and third choices also not available). At the first run through of the autocue she seemed unable to get her head round the fact Lily Allen's song LND rferred to London and she should not say LDN. After several fags and whispering the script was rewritten with no refernces to Miss Allen.


Sugababes were head and shoulders above the rest - the only backstage goss was the truly phenomenal number of fluffy white towel they ordered before they even went on. Four trip, arms laden with hotel style towels. It was like they had horses out there giving birth. keisha has a little munchkin face and the new mutya is actually exteremly fit but looks airbrushed even in real life.

The female singer from Just Jack looks a bit like a prettier version of sharleen spiteri and told me "i'd rather be warm than glamourous". Fair enough but i was only pointing out the cloakroom - Which she'd just asked for?